He pushed his way in and shut the door behind him. "are you sure you're okay"? He asked. I brushed him off and assured him I was fine, just a little t...psy. Standing there almost naked, my heart beating out of my chest, I felt my knees almost giving out from under me. I quickly turned around went back to the bathroom, and he followed me. I was in the middle of telling him I was fine and that he could leave before I knew it he was ripping my towel off my wet naked body and throwing in to the. I said I would fix something. She wouldhave nothing to do with that. "You are not cooking in that dress. Nolet's go." "I am not ready to go out anywhere," I protested. "We will just go through a drive through somewhere," she said as shetook my hand and just about drug me out to the garage. "You will neverhave to say a word, and the only person the will see you will be somekid at the drive through window." Before I knew it, we were in the car, driving down the street. I wasscared to death as. The drums banging from the band are deafening. The ball is snapped. Parker throws, hitting his receiver right in the numbers. He runs---and runs---and runs, from the 20 yard line on our side. It seems that all is lost. Then suddenly—the miracle. From nowhere came a V of runners, coming at an angle across the field. They looked like a flock of geese running towards the Tigers runner. They hit him like an arrow—9 of them at once, at the 7 yard line. The impact was so great, that the ball went. Are you from around here?”“Oh, I’m from all over - I just kind of go where the wind blows - and you can call me Flower.”That did it. I had just enough time to set the cup down in what I hoped was a safe place, and I lost it again. I laughed, I chortled, I roared - I even giggled - and she kept pace with me, laughing until we were both red in the face and coughing for breath, tears streaming from our eyes.“Whooo,” I wheezed, “- tell me your parents didn’t name you Flower!”She screwed her face up.