[email protected] BoyDavid stood in the center of his room feeling like a complete dork. Hewas posing with his head turned slightly to ...he side, arms arched abovehis head, purple lacquered nails just touching and his feet, heelstouching and toes pointed out at a forty-five degree angle. The blushingon his cheeks was not solely due to the dusty rose blush he wore.He was wearing a lilac satin and white net ballerina costume. Thecostume had a square neckline frilled with pleated. He’ll do whatever I ask. ‘I don’t know sweetie.’ ‘Look you told me that she wanted to quit smoking anyway. What’s the harm in trying? If it doesn’t work we’re just back where we are now. It’s totally safe, I promise.’ ‘Let me think about it all right?’ And that’s what I did over the next few days, think about it. You might say that was all I thought about. I didn’t have much faith that it would work at all but like Gabrielle said if it didn’t work what was the harm? Maybe Peggy could give up. Whether it was the news or the realization that we were so close to the enemy, I suddenly felt energized, my senses heightened like they had always been right before a battle.With the scouts ahead of us again, we started for Abydos. Our troops formed a convex shield in front of us. Two companies rode to our right and two to our left. Two companies protected our rear. The carts and catapults creaked, groaned, bumped, and thumped along the road to Abydos, almost reminding me of a short, albeit. Looking at herself in the mirror she wondered what about her made her unable to tell Derek that she enjoyed his presence. Every time she tried she just couldn't get the words out of her mouth. He was moderately popular in high school, and when he went to college that fact hadn't really changed. Where he was on the upper rungs of the college society, she had stayed in the lower rungs. She had never found anyone that she truly valued and in part it was due to her nervousness around men but also.