" Janquickly did the right. "I mentioned to your dad he needs to let you growup a little, so I think we found a nice blend today sweetie. I'll makehim...understand how much you wanted them, so it'll be fine when we talk.We all did at your age but were chicken to do it, just like you were.Don't worry, he won't be fighting me when he sees how pretty you'veturned out today. Trust me, I can handle him."Peyton's eyes were bubbling with tears as Jan hugged him and pulled offher cape and long cloth. He. Then, they'd floatback down and he'd do it again. He liked the new 'do', a sort ofpermanent wave that gave his hair a lot of body. He had it lightened upa few shades, and with the highlights, it was a very brassy blonde now.Of course it was Mandee who had talked him into it, as she knew exactlywhat buttons to push to get Mark to do almost anything. Fortunately,when Mark saw it for real on his head, it wasn't as bad as he thoughtit was going to look. In fact, something told him that it was. I had told several tales about the sk8t park, and especially his 14th birthday, where I took his cherry. In spite of the hero worship, Dustin didn't follow my footsteps with football in high school. He decided he just didn't want all the crap that would come from being my lil bro, always being compared and shit like that. I had set a lot of records during my 4 years as quarter-back, and he said he could never live up to it. Instead he decided on baseball, to which I said that was great---his. He could barely hold onto his lance and stay on the horse, so I had no trouble at all with shooting him. Okay, three down and eight to go.It was time to get serious! The next man chose to come straight at me and take me out with an arrow. That made things a little difficult because I wanted to preserve his horse if I possibly could. Because I was in the arroyo, his horse's head and neck blocked sight of him through much of his charge. I could have shot the horse and saved myself some danger,.