.." she trailed off sadly."You certainly could, you're very pretty," emphasizing this by stroking her friend's hair and tracing her fingers along her ...ace and lips.If Ginny thought this strange, she didn't say anything. In fact she seemed to relax further, melting a little into the older girl’s arms."You just need confidence. And practice." Practice?" Yes, practice. In the things girls and boys do together." Like what?" Like kissing, what did you think? Have you ever?"At this poor Ginny just. ” “Not really, the neighborhood doesn't appreciate corpses in their back yards. If I'd had a gun he'd be laying out there now, but your boys took it.” “Well, sit down and tell me what you want.” She sat behind the desk, put her left elbow on the desktop but kept one hand in her lap as she motioned to the chair directly in front of the desk. I didn't like the idea of a shotgun under the desk pointing at my groin, so I pulled the chair over to the side wall, sat down and leaned it back against. Afterone particularly acrimonious fight where Lindsay accused him of gettingon her computer and sending out embarrassing messages to her friends,Karen said, "Cody, you've been so well-behaved lately...why can't youget along with your sister?"He just shrugged dismissively.Lindsay, on the other hand, was convinced that this "new Cody" thingwas all a big sham to get into their mother's good graces. In privateshe teased him for being a "mama's boy," but secretly she was gettingnervous that it might. Jack was excused from gymclass for the rest of the term. Dr. Zaaijer provided Jack with a note.Jack couldn't dress in the girl's locker room. He attended study hallinstead.Back at home, there wasn't any more arguing. Mikie and Jack were tryingto help each other live one another's life. This made them closer thanthey had ever been. Jack was sober all the time, he was now a schoolgirl. Mikie was also sober for obvious reasons and that solved most ofthe problems at home. Everyday Jack was.