She was happy to see that it was her older sister come through the door and let a draft of the winter air in. But she stormed upstairs and didnt even ...ay hi. After a couple minutes she heard another car door shut and her mother walked in the door letting a second draft waft into the house and a shivered crawled over her body. Her mother didn’t look happy. ‘Katy, hi honey, sorry to leave you alone after you passed out, your breathing was fine and you had no temperature, so I tucked you in….,’. I used to have such pretty ones. You even said so, Laura. Now they big fat blubber bags."Laura grinned, enjoying Charise's grumpiness as well as the artless way she was drawing Laura forward. "I guess I'd have to see them to know whether you were telling the truth," she said, flirtatiously.Now Charise turned coquettish. She flirted back, looking down bashfully at the carpet. She was not a brazen and devious coquette, like Jane for example, but an innocent schoolgirl, shy and seductive in the. But Tim is different. He is super religious and doesn’t believe in anything beyond holding hands and closed mouth peck on the lips until a couple is married. Dating him has been really easy, and we’ve grown very close. And he asked me to marry him, and I want to, but I’m scared I can’t be a functioning wife.”By this point tears were flowing down Denise’s face.“The treatment for this will be intense. There is enough time before the wedding, but barely. I want you to be clear. This treatment will. It's a time of living cheap, of dreaming of the day that they'll be back out on their beloved river.As the seven members of Team 1 rode the crew bus upwards, it was hard to believe that the season was over. It had been an eventful one, sometimes memorable, and sometimes difficult. Unlike the summer kids, all seven of these people were professionals, even Barbie, people who had cast their lot with running the river, addicted to its spell. Scooter remembered the story of Carole Carter, addicted.