I looked up to see my mentor smiling down at me. Two other women are standing behind her staring at me like I’m some kind of freak. I released my de...ath grip on the vest and the g-string and as the woman placed them on the table behind me she said, “Not bad, kid. Hell, you gave me a hard on!”She and her two companions took the pile of money out of my arms and began flattening it out and separating it by denomination. I didn’t really care about the money. But I watched curiously as they stacked. Her pager went off. SHe looked at it and realized it was Jere’s number. “Give me a minute,” she begged off.Her son explained that things were bad at the Owenses. SHe attempted to calm him. It was not working, He said, ‘Dolemite’. Her next reply was that she was on the way. Hugo volunteered to drive her, but she wanted to be in charge as per usual. She said he could ride along with her, which he quickly agreed to do.Rochelle scooped up her son and his best friend, Desmond. Dez’s older sister ran. She woke up in a different room, with her shoes off and covers over her. Lena was there, and David's mother.She opened her mouth to ask a question, but realized she had more than one. Lena answered a few."You were out for about an hour. The boy you helped is much better, and they want to talk to you about it. David is fine. He needs some special training, but if he works hard he can probably be out of here before school starts. And yes, he'll have to register."Our locker room will never be the. We joked around for years about hooking up, if we ever hit a dry spell, but it had never actually happened. We were both straight and didn’t have any reason to venture over to the other team, but we toyed around with the idea. One night, after a particularly long dry spell between boyfriends, Michelle texted me. “I’m so horny" the text message said, and my eyes lit up. “Maybe we should just sleep together and end this desert we’re in. I laughed and replied, “What time should I be there? ” .