Okay? I answered as I walked out side. I waited outside admiring my boots. Mr. Burton came out. Okay, you have to stay after school, he told me. Why?...I questioned him shocked. Educational reasons. He replied, that doesnt Make sense at ALL! My grades are perfectly fine. Have I dropped a couple of levels? Oh what ever. He walked inside slowly and i followed, guessing what this educational reason was. 3:00pm Oh well would you look at that were out of time! Mr. Burton informed us. Everybody. “Three minutes to breakout,” Blaine said. “I’ve checked the readings, we should be right at the edge of the asteroid field.”“Is that safe?” Jessica asked.“The field seems to have been created when a planet that would have been barely larger than earth failed to form. The asteroids take up less than one percent of the volume of space we call an asteroid field,” I said.“One percent?” Kelsey said. “Try moving that number to the right by at least three decimal places. The asteroids can be hundreds. I held out my hand to each, and remarked I was delighted to be meeting some of George’s friends. (I’d been practicing my female voice.) George said, "Yolanda, this is Bernie, Carl, Louis, Dominic, Mark and John. To which I responded, “Oh dear, I’m terrible with names but I’ll try. Let me see…” and I put a name to each with some prompting. “ Well” said Dominic. What is the lady drinking this evening?” "I’d just love a beer.” I said. Dominic made his way to the kitchen and returned with a glass. We finished the beer in no time at all, and Paula asked if we could get some more."I said, 'Sure, but I'm not paying a second admission to get back in here.'"So we all trooped out of the movie theatre, and got into Manny's Chevy."Twenty minutes later, we were tooling along, drinking and fucking around, playing a little grab-ass, you know, just fooling around."I remember Paula reaching across my shoulder trying to grab another beer, and Manny, who was driving, holding it just out of her reach..