" Whatever you say."The shift passed with barely a word between them. At quitting time, Sophia walked up to Warren, and said, "Walk me home, please?"T...ey started walking. Warren was uncomfortable, because they were walking in silence, which never happened."What's up, Sophia?" When we get to my house." Oh-kaaaay."They got to her house. "Come on in. Nobody's home. Mom is at work, and the kids are with their father."Sophia had explained that her brother and sister had a different father-her Mom's. ‘No, no. You won’t because I know, with certainty, with every fabric of my being, that Elaine loves me. If you two want to be together, that’s fine by me. We just have to make sure we all tell each other what’s going on. Besides,’ she said with a glint in her eye and a lift to one corner of her mouth, ‘it might be me and Denise, not you, Elaine!’ Susan was silent for a moment. Elaine bit her lip. Denise sat still, afraid even to breathe. There was something happening, and all three of them knew. Just take off." The man holding the camera scuttled out the back, clutching the camera to his chest. The guy holding the towel dropped it. Her head fell forward. She had a bruise on the side of her face."She's a prostitute man." He said. "We were just having a little fun with her." He backed up as he was talking then turned and ran out the back also. The last man pushed Janice off of him and rolled to his feet. He looked like he wanted to fight for a second."You can have her." He said. I got. You have a home if you want it". "I'm not going anywhere,"she said with a grin, "but I have a question, why would you get into trouble?" she asked. "Duh, sweetie...harboring a runaway....statuatory rape....name it and I'm up the river". "But you can't rape the willing" she exclaimed loudly. "Court, at sixteen in this state, the law says you can't be willing". "I didn't know that." she said. "Well, it's true" I replied. "I could get twenty years just for last night. We have to be careful". "But.