Belle brought us to a screeching halt and looked at me inquisitively.“She is only sixteen, Belle. I asked if we could wait until her seventeenth bir...hday to consummate our relationship. That’s only a month or so from now anyway.”When I finished talking, Belle was looking at me as if I were some sort of dolt.“She’s been of legal age to marry for almost two years, Tyler, and she is probably more mature than you in a lot of ways. Just how much wiser do you think she’ll get in another few weeks?”I. I smiled at her wiping her chin with the sheet. She curled up next to me then, resting her head and a hand on my chest. Our breathing slowed and we drifted into sleep. I awoke sometime later with a full bladder and that uneasy moment of apprehension from being in a strange bed. She slept silently and soundly curled up with her back to me. I eased out of the bed and made my way to the commode. Once there, I closed the door and relieved myself. Again, I was surprised at how pretty the place was.. His name was Jim, Jim Turner. He was a local man, born and bred. In his early thirties he was, Susie agreed, a really handsome hunk. He stood about six feet two with a thatch of fair hair curling over his ears and down his neck. His bright blue eyes smiled a lot, rather than his lips, but with his tanned face actively registering his feelings. Susie wondered idly what his body looked like when he was working in the outdoors. ‘The problem Miss,’ Jim sighed heavily, ‘is the tax man. You see, what. Ted continued to run his garage until he died, and it was boarded up. I guess it was for sale, but who would buy such a place?The summer when I was going into eighth grade, and my brother, Tom, who was fourteen, was going into ninth, I used to hang around with Tom and his friends. I suppose they were a gang. The co-leaders were Carmen and his brother, Frank, who was sixteen, going on seventeen, but Frank had just finished eighth grade with Carmen and Tom and the others, because they had held.