Well, Faye weren't havingnone of that, and it was all I could do to keep her from hitting himawake. Granted, we almost had to, to get him up."Leonard ...rushed several locks of fuller, uniformly dark brown hair fromhis larger eyes, vainly attempting to get it to stay behind his ears.His nose had shrunk significantly, his bony cheeks were becomingnoticeably plumper, and his pencil lips were growing thicker. Any tracesof stubble had disappeared from his face, leaving him with the face of asomewhat. . I mean all I thought about, was that girl. Not the man in the car, just her. How she walked. How she dressed. How she smoked. At the time, I didn’t smoke, but in an instantly I knew I wanted to. I didn’t wear heels, but I knew I would buy some that weekend.Because the other thing I knew was, I was going back there. I wasn’t going shopping with friends; I was going on my own to buy something that looked as slutty and naughty as that girl did, or as much as I thought I could get away with. My. "I spent a lot of the summer wishing his dad hadn't run off, or that he had an uncle or something," she continued. "I thought that maybe if there was a guy he could talk to, he'd open up a little more and share what was happening at school. Then when you said you were from Denver and that you'd been picked on in junior high too..." Anxiousness covering her face as she looked at me."You want me to be his friend," I stated."Yes," she said. "She reached out and took my hand. "I'll pay you back, of. ‘Man, you guys are so cool,’ she said as she fumbled with the button at her waist. It came free and she carefully pulled down her zipper, feeling and hearing the parting of each of the metal teeth, ‘no hang ups, man no bullshit, man you guys just put it all out there.’ ‘Turn around,’ Jamie said. ‘What, okay,’ she stumbled a little, got herself righted, took her panties and her shorts together and pulled them all the way down to her ankles feeling the wonderful cool air on her damp matted.