"That won't be too hard." And one item you buy for Pyx has to push her modesty." You got it." Finally, Pyx has to model it for me."And all purchases h...ve to be bought on my block." Oooh. That will be tricky." Good luck."Vonda ran over and knocked on the connecting door.Pyx opened it."Girl. We are going shopping. Alex's treat." Oh! I can't accept that. He's too generous!"Vonda calmed down a bit. "It is generous. He's like that. If you refuse, he might get offended." Well, I don't want to do. I might be short haired and skinny, and holding hands withanother girl, but I?d really become a woman since then. As Nina and Ibrowsed, happily selected the most tasteless and outlandish garments foreach other, surrounded by our laughter and love, the assumed contemptfrom all those imagined haters dissolved. Those kind of people weregoing to hate me whatever I did and whatever I didn?t; I should stopletting them run my life."That one!" I said, suddenly as we steadily swept through a branch. Once a name that was synonymous with “popular”, “golden child”, “town favorite”, and other such praises for as long as you and he were enrolled in the same years at school. He could do no wrong, and was the single most important person as far as a vast majority of the town was concerned. His family was more than 80% of the financial backbone of the town since the day it was founded.That was before he quickly hit his “rebellious” phase. Piercings, tattoos, drugs, questionable affiliations, etc.. What was love that it could be so easily sundered? A bureaucrat from the city, some man named Karnivicious, had — they were told by a friendly neighbor — been asking questions about Tomas — where had he come from, what had he done during the war? Tomas simply left the next day. Three men in a worn black ZIS sedan came by and he left with them. No word of explanation, no threats or packed bags, just here one minute and gone the next. Her first impulse had been to withdraw inside herself — as.