I said, “You know how to swim?” Shake.“You never went out into the water? We’ll have to work on that. It’s fun and I’ll help, but later.�...b**st looked past me and growled. I turned quickly to see a large ripple on the water surface. Then another showed. “Fish. Food.” And I smiled at him. “You ever have fish?” Shake. “So much is new for us both.” I lay in the water at its edge and finally got b**st to join me. Just looking up at the blue sky, hearing small sounds from the other side of the. I thanked her for her work and waited for the hair stylist.She hadn't long gone when there was a knock at the door, it was thehairdresser. She was a lot younger than the manicurist, about midthirties with bleached blond hair. She arrived carrying her equipmentbag and quickly got down to business. It only took her an hour tocomplete her task, a little trim here and there but mostly she was justbrushing and styling. She had combed my hair up into a French plattedstyle, all swept up and very. Vance wentback in and called his mother to tell her that he had stayed. She toldhim that he had already done that when Phil called her. She also toldhim to drive safely. He took Dan home and went home himself. He wentstraight to bed. He laid in the darkness for some time and thought aboutthe events of the day. Suddenly he remembered that he didn't get acostume for the Halloween dance. That was the whole reason for going tothe mall. He was on the dance committee he had to be there, but. Brit had never quite gotten it into her bratty head that since she took at least three times as long in there as Jeff did, that he should be allowed to take his shower first. She almost treated it like a contest, to see who could get in it first. And since both doors locked from the inside, he had no choice but to wait for her.He headed instead downstairs for breakfast, though he wasn't particularly hungry. He ate in silence, still thinking about Allison.His father watched him, wondering about.