I was standing ata sale rack in a women's wear store. The salesgirl was a young girl inher late teens or early twenties. She's pretty cute, I though...reflexively.For a moment, I froze. Was I really going to go through with this?Could I summon the courage to tell her what I planned to say? Tenminutes before, it seemed so easy. Now, I'm terrified."I'm not sure," I say, stalling."Well, what size are you looking for?" she asks."I'm not sure," I say again, this time answering her question. . After explaining to him what was going on, he went towards the kitchen and returned with two soda cans and gave one to me without even asking me whether I wanted one or not. He then sat down beside me and explained to me that my son has a crush on a friend of Malik called Jayla and that my son Brian became angry at Malik when he told him that my son was not Jayla’s type. I became relieved by the fact that this was only a boy crush thing, but then came the a-bomb. Malik then told me that before. He tested the waters a little further. ‘It was about that same time that you started comin’ up with all that nonsense about your friends at the nursing home dyin’ suspiciously.’ He watched her eyes for a glimmer of remembrance, but instead saw the twinkle of mirth disappear. ‘What? You don’t remember that?’ Bonita’s eyes closed, though whether in response or simply in repose, Amos could not tell. For the next half hour, Bonita drifted in and out of consciousness, finally awakening fully when. ’ ‘If that’s the case,’ one of the other boats replied, ‘then we might just want to take the ship as well.’ Barre laughed. ‘Don’t think I haven’t thought of it, but they’d probably be able to find us rather easily, don’t you think? No, just board her, we’ll take what we can, and narrow down the potential hostages by monetary value.’ With grappling hooks and tow lines, the pirate boats moved alongside the liner, with each of the pirates slowly climbing their way up to the railing. Everyone had.