"The two made "small talk", mostly silly comments mimicking TV and moviescenes, often shifting from topic to topic rapidly. Billy sometimesstruggled t... keep up. He finished his hot chocolate when he saw she wasfinishing hers."Lets change and do something else!" She bounced out of her seat and wasrunning before he could agree or disagree."Ok," he said to himself, standing and looking at the skirt and tights infront of him.He almost ran into Tess as he got to hall corner, she came around. You must be starving.’ ‘Yes, I am,’ he murmured. He slipped his arms around her waist and pulled her back against him as his lips began to explore the area beneath her ear. Sensing no resistance, he grew bolder and one hand slid up to cup her breast. He squeezed the tender flesh, drawing a sigh from Selena, and Liam growled with satisfaction when her nipple hardened beneath his questing hand. When she turned her head to look at him from over her shoulder, he claimed her parted lips. The kiss. There was an emptybed in the next room.Richie was a little nervous when he went into Dale's mom's room, thoughhe quickly reminded himself that he couldn't get in any more troublefor being in there than he already was."Besides," Richie told himself as he glanced into the makeup standmirror, "she belongs in here."Then Richie frowned, turning away from the mirror and staring down athimself with mixed disgust and curiosity. He let out a sigh, thenstarted taking off the clothes, silently wishing. She drew inward, and just before the crest of the deep drag, she snapped the cigarette away between the tips of two long, graceful fingers, finished filling her lungs, then exhaled a long exquisite stream of smoke into the waning sunlight filtering through the window behind them. It was a simple sequence of actions, enacted millions of times a day throughout the world, and burned into Mark's mind forever. The first time he watched his mother smoke a cigarette. It was a beginning.Helen looked at.