They ate in the cafeteria.After dark they carried a tarp and a blanket outside of town to a field. I need saddlebags on my bike, Paul thought. Too ba... they look so dorky. Paul held both the blanket and the tarp. He only dropped them once. In the field, the blanket went on top of the tarp; the tarp would keep them dry. Otherwise the wet ground would soak through the blanket in minutes.Paul showed Mandy the major constellations. He tried to remember what had been known about individual stars in. .. " Touch anything. Yeah, I know, Jack, but I do keep disposable latex gloves in my desk." He opened the desk's front drawer, took out a box and held it up. "See?"Hunger stood up. "Good boy! Shall we go? On the way, I'll fill you in on this Wilde woman, and I mean wild in the feral sense of the word. I popped her name into my PC's search engine and, man, she was a pip! C'mon, I'll tell you all about it on the way."As they passed by Lucy's desk, Tag said, sounding most businesslike, "Miss Fern,. ... but with obvious boy overtones. always in panties.. matchingbra, hose with garter belt. Sometimes the shoes were simple penneyloafers, but sometimes they were very feminine. Many had one or two inchnarrow heels.In short order, John introduced bobbi to more controlling influences...like strappy sandals with much higher heels... and ankle cuffs with aconnecting chain. John explained how great bobbi's legs looked in theheels, and how he liked to help him shorten his stride to walk in theheels. Tweedle Dumb was absent again, which gave me hope, but Heather was out, too, which worried me.Then at the closing bell I was called to Mrs. Devers's office. It being Wednesday that put a kink into my scheduled modeling session with Greg and Kathy, so I hoped to make it quick, thinking Devers wanted to give me some suggestions about what I should say at Saturday's dedication of the "Spirit" statue. Instead I found Heather waiting for me, looking what was, for her, very second hand -- unkempt.