"Suzi's squeal was just as loud as when she opened my gift. Actually, I liked Joey's gift better than my own."It's a locket. Oh! With Joey's and Tim's...pictures in it. Ew Joey... I love it!" Yeah, Joey. That's cool. So that's why you wanted to see the bracelet. You wanted to try and match it... " I said, pretending I hadn't already known that."And Sss... since your mom gave me the picture of you, I uhm... didn't need to take that picture like I told you I was," Joey quickly made up. I gave him a. I'd getcarded more than Amy when we go out."So we spent the next hour at the makeup counter, where I was given acomplete makeover by the artist, and wound up buying several hundreds ofdollars of product. She complimented me on my super long eyelashes. As ablonde, they are a fairly light tone, and you don't notice them untilthey have mascara on them, but then they look like false eyelashes. Ithink that whatever was making my hair and nails grow so fast must haveaffected them, but they were. She blushed again and looked down into her lap – where I was alsolooking at her thighs snugly encased in the tight thin denim. Shedid not answer.“I don’t want to have to show you what will happen if you don’tanswer me politely,” I said with quiet menace.“I do have a boyfriend. We have been seeing one another for aboutthree weeks. He is my first boy-friend ever,” she whispered.“What is his name and how old is he?” I asked. She blushed. I felt better too. The bullies were leaving me alone (Thad and his crew weren't the only ones) and that was probably due mostly to the fact that my hobby of being a smart ass had taken a back seat to my Project Samantha. But like I told her, the bullies didn't always wait for me to give them a reason.I was eating lunch. Mike had stayed to ask his teacher some questions after class and was still in line getting his lunch so I was alone at the last table in the cafeteria, when Dan and his bunch.