You want them to get broken in properly. But you don'twant them to become smelly from constant wearing every day." We wereinformed.Nike had just becom... a huge name brand. And she bought us Nike tennis shoesfor our Gym classes. I was surprised I'd never paid more than ten dollarsfor a pair of tennis shoes before. And Momma Gina dropped almost twohundred a piece for ours and didn't bat an eye. Now any doubts I might havehad about Momma Gina's love vanished. She'd bought me a Diamond choker,. "I'm getting a tattoo." He flexed, showing off the muscles in his arms. "Cool," Brando Gianetta said. "What're you getting?" Brando was Ricco's best friend. He started calling himself Brando after some chick dragged him to see STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at an art theater. He was blown away by Marlon Brando's performance, even more so, when the chick told him she thought he looked like Brando. "A flaming skull. I saw this new shop over on Kingsley. They got pictures in the window. The skull is. See other people huh? Wait a year for her to come home, I don't think so.Friday evening I called to have it out with Stephanie. Her new roommate, Donna, told me she was out with Ralph. "Want to leave a message?" She asked. I told her I would call back tomorrow around noon.Saturday I called at 12:30 afternoon New York time."She hasn't come back to the apartment yet," Donna told me. "Ralph and her must be having a really good time. It's a good thing too. I told her if they didn't find somewhere. He had already laid two of the JV cheerleaders, one during the summer at the pool and the other the previous weekend, but he did not know any of the younger girls very well. He hoped the girl he had left blubbering and bleeding last Saturday night wouldn’t talk about what he had done to her or how many times he had done it.The Bailey girls made Tommy’s task easier by inviting classmates to come to their house after school and play in their basement rec room where there was an arcade-style.