Sweat dripped from her body, but Miranda refused to allow her more than small sips of water flavored with marjoram. Louise fetched Jenny from the quar...ers at her mother's insistence, and now all three of the black women watched Elizabeth's efforts and sometimes held her hands. Miranda continued her questioning."How about dis here Clemence? You done named him t'day. This his chile?" No, no, I told you. Poor man's long dead. Master Andrew, damn him, damn 'is eyes!" Elizabeth screeched and almost. We practically grew up together. We told each other everything, from crushes to our favorite porno flicks. We even got fake IDs together and tried to go into in adult shop when we were 13. We experienced each other growing up. We always had a mutual connection like one of a brother and sister. I told myself that I could never love him as a boyfriend for fear of ruining our friendship. But as days went on, I knew I was falling for him. What a perfect boyfriend I knew he’d be. He would never. It was only a few hours before the paper was due and I only had about half of it done. After a while, I realized I was getting nothing done and there was no point at even trying to work. I opened up Safari and clicked onto facebook. I sent my boyfriend a quick message. "Hey " I knew he was working too. There was little chance of him responding, but maybe he would, who knew? Soon I found facebook boring and I opened the Photo Booth application and began to examine myself in the camera. I had to. Seeing Stephanie draped across the toilet bowl, Sue-Ellyn was startled. "What's the matter, Stephanie? Are you alright?" I don't know, Sue-Ellyn. I'm so sick. Every morning I get up and then I throw up for the next two hours. I don't know what the matter with me is."Of course, Sue-Ellyn not being the brightest bulb in the pack blurted out, "Well, maybe you're pregnant." Not much chance..." Stephanie started to deny it but then stopped in mid sentence. She was supposed to have started her period.