He’s only two years younger than us and I remember how he would follow us around, torturing us with no mercy; overall he was a good kid though. Mega... walked up behind Stephen and slapped him in the back of the head. “Stop being a jerk…” She told him, walking over to help pull me out of the pool. “…And leave my friends alone,” she added. “Thanks Meg,” I said as I grabbed a towel from the pool side chair. I protested, punching my open hand with my fist, “One of these days I’m really gonna give. Silvio had been unfortunate enough to see the movie and thought its star ought to stick to his day job as anAvenger. What Jo saw in the guy he would never understand."Great show tonight, Jo!" he said, as she inserted a cigarette into a short black holder and lit it."They're always great, Silvio," she replied, blowing a long stream of smoke and examining her reflection, far more interested in this than she was in him."Yes, well, have a good night, Jo," he said, reaching out topat her shoulder. Maybe he could pick up shifts at the burger joint again? James sighed at the realization that working at his old part time job was one of the more exciting options he had.As James pulled into the subdivision where his family lived, his thoughts drifted to his family members. James grew up with his mother and two sisters. He never knew much of his father. From what James understood, his father floated in and out of his mother's life until shortly after his younger sister Allie was born. No phone. “Ye-e-es,” Haley replied with a bit of exasperation and the teenage left-right-left sway to her head a couple of times. “And I went through all of that stuff in Health Science in eighth grade; and I got an ‘A’. So, I know all about where babies come from and how to prevent it, and how ‘good girls’,” with her own air quotes this time, “don’t just give it up to the first guy who shows an interest; blah, blah, blah.”Matt surprised Haley when he did not show any embarrassment at her response..