You came back to town, but you didn't come home." I was too much of a mess to face my mom right away." But why? It wasn't like the other time, was it?... ... When you left angry with me because of Carla? And you went with those guys. It wasn't like that, this time ... Was it?" Did I run home to find some guy to fuck? No." Why, then? What did I do?"She busted out bawling right at that moment. It was sudden, unexpected, and very loud. The drugs had seemed to have dulled her responses earlier, but. Slowly he became aware that the hairs on his stomach were deflecting against something when he breathed in, and then the sensation of proximity changed to a sensation of contact. First here, and then more, and there… a hand, surprisingly cool, was landing very gently over his navel. And it stayed there. For ages. He remembered being touched like this by a healer he’d gone to when he’d still been in pain and feeling really low, but that time there’d been a steady drone of mumbled prayers. Now. “You’re turning RED!”“Cindy, you look like you’re fourteen and I could get arrested for talking to you...”“Thank you,” she laughed. “Dan still loves me even though I’m an older woman now...”I helped her push the little plane back into its hangar, then rode with her to Nikki’s house to pick up my mate.The idea that I’m learning to fly is exciting. It pales, though, beside the vision that I meet when I get to Nikki’s.I’m met at the door. “Come in,” Nikki said. “She’s getting dressed. We have the. Don Jacinto told Nicolett “let me talk to him”. She said “he wants to talk to you” before he heard Chuck say “hi bro, your girl is looking really sexy over here on my bed”.Don Jacinto told Chuck “she said she’d let you take a picture of her topless to send to me… so let me see just how sexy she looks”. He heard Chuck say “he wants a topless picture… go ahead and undress, and I’ll take a pic for him”. Apparently.