The first day she took the bus, she did not show up to practice until half the boys had already been picked up. She had been relieved at this situatio... but then the coaches decided to extend the practice time. She tried to wait in the car for the practice to end but ‘They’ emailed her to watch from the sidelines. Except for the grumpy mothers, everyone seemed to like this. She tried to ignore their jibes from the women. It made her realize how judgmental she used to come across.The second set. " Think you. You are not bad yourself."Then the strange dog started licking me with his tongue. My heart wasgoing funny and I felt so strange inside. Was this love? He was justkissing me and telling me how pretty I was. I was in doggie's heaven.Then I heard Taylor's voice. I pulled back and explained it was mymaster. Then I had to explain to the dog that my master was not a girl.He was actually a boy being a girl. The strange dog thought this wasvery strange, and said that humans are very. He loved the solitude of the rustic scenery. No one bothered him, and he could do whatever he wanted. He was the only police in a fifty-mile radius. He patrolled until the houses were now almost a half-mile apart, and went out further into the pasturelands. Houses out this far were over a mile apart, and here no one could see what he was planning. He turned off the main road onto the secondary, and then turned onto the wide single lanes of the country, the ones with no lines on them. He drives. Valerie grabbed them back."Stop that. I'm NOT angry." Kathy raised her eyes. "Good, now just listen to me, OK? Kathy nodded and Valerie went on. "OK. I'm going to tell you something, because ... well, I trust you. But this cannot get out. Buck could lose his job if it did."She waited until Kathy nodded again. "OK. Well, when Buck and I were dating, when we were engaged, I sort of ... shared him. And he shared me. What I mean is there were times when there were more than just the two of us in.