People started showing up and Mark was surprised at the amount of people I knew. If he would have walked with me a little he wouldn’t have been. It ...was the first time he’d met most of them and ticked him a little when Jim swept me up in his arms and twirled me. Jim was Chloe’s husband and seemed a giant when he stood beside me. He was 6’8” tall and weighed over 300 lbs. and none of it looked like fat. I was 5’4” and weighed 110. He then kissed me on the top of the head and proceeded to rave to. We could have some serious fun, you and I!”“I expect you to have some serious fun today,” Tanya replied. She kissed Jake goodbye and whispered, “Blow her full of holes for me!” into his ear.Jake grinned and whispered back, “I will,” although he felt strange, having other people know about what he considered his and Béla’s private little perversion.Then they were gone.“We could just teleport,” Béla suggested as Jake’s old flitter rumbled toward the underground exit.“I like to fly,” Jake replied.. Joanne Barnes: Brian's next door neighbor who he thinks of as "Heaven." In 6th grade, tall, pretty blonde and destined to become a model.Drew Barnes: Joanne's younger, delinquent brother, in fifth grade and is nasty.Bill Fisher: Friend of Joanne's in 6th grade and protector of Brian.Jimmy Sutton: Friend of Bill's—one of the scary 6th graders.Introduced in 5th grade (chapter 2)Angela Kimes: Brian's lab partner at science camp summer between 4th and 5th and summer between 5th and 6th, a black. I took some tea to break the tension. “Anyway, what did you both talk about yesterday?”“I’m afraid it’s privileged”, she said. “Client confidentiality.”I sighed, suddenly understanding that dollar. It came as an annoying surprise, considering I had been hoping to ask Mother for advice on Amanda, but as things were, she might have a pretty big conflict of interest. I ate some, trying to work out the angles.“I wish you’d let me keep her here”, I said, unready to discuss the other issue.“It wasn’t.