We stayed awake for three more hours talking until I finally couldn’t keep my eyes awake anymore. The last thing I remembered, and will never forget... was Alec tucking a piece of hair behind my ear. ************** It was light outside of the plane when I woke up. After all, I had the window seat. It only took me a few seconds to run through everything that happened last night. Sneaking the booze, my convenient turbulence landings, and Alec having the power to make everything outside of us. Being cut up a bit... that's not such a big deal. I remember with sudden clarity how my two-week affair with Azid started. He too goaded me. He made me angry, said things that... that shouldn't even have made me angry. Said things about Mindy that made Mindy angry rather. Said she was a worthless, drug-addicted whore, that she was wasting her life away, that she was useless and ugly. I knew none of those things were true about me, but something flared in my chest back then too. At first I. Usually a large satin mac in voluminous colours, blue, purple orburgundy. She would smooth this on once she had made George see what itconcealed, occasionally a satinette frock or dress that fitted tightlybelow the knee or more often than not a satin pencil skirt and satinblouse of varying shades, all touched off with a pair of the highestheels and nylons that hissed mockingly as George languished like alapdog. Whereupon Margaret would peck him on the cheek, leaving a faintdab of her beloved. Music started. I turned my attention to the girls. They’d brought wireless speakers. Pop music blared. I recognized a Drake song. The four girls laughed, then started singing along. They obviously knew the lyrics. When they started to dance together, the boys lost interest in Frisbee. So did I.Four teen girls in bikinis were a perfect example of adolescence. Maddy, a short brunette, wasn’t rail thin. She had curves and moved with sensuality. Hannah, a pure curly blonde, bopped. She had a full.