You like?" Absolutely. Great idea. Did you get arm guards?"Spring said, "I've seen the movie, read the book and spread a ton of antibiotic ointment on... my forearm. Arm shields and finger grips are in the box."The door buzzer sounded. "I'll get it. It's not the bus or the uniforms, so I'm betting Ari, Yvette or Diego. Put on some water for tea. Lets be good hosts."He hit two for three with a bonus. Yvette was there, accompanied by her companion, Lauren. Diego brought Elizabeth and her sister. When we met we weren't exactly thinking we'd go home for sex or did you?"She asked while giving him accusing eyes that held a glimmer of playfulness.June held his hands up in surrender, "No way, no expectations. I almost didn't leave the apartment." I think that helped, I'll admit I was thinking about it a little but blame it on the alcohol. But we kind of became friends first and we vibed. There weren't any people around to give input or influence. So... I just went for it."June laid back on. We lived about a half mile from one another growing up. We were more like brother and sister. She was a beautiful girl with a smoking hot body for her age. Some people thought we were either brother and sister or bfriend and gfriend. We were best friends and knew everything about one another. We even knew who about our love lives. Neither of us were virgins and I was kind of a player with the ladies. Something she always gave me a hard about. When we were 16 we went to a teen pool party at the. " I didn't know." He smoothed down his mustache and wondered how the girl maintained those silly curls at her ears, those corkscrews."Few did," said Caroline, who had enjoyed sharing an odd but durable relationship with the former slave as well the long-kept secret of both his literacy and his freedom. "What are you making?" A dancer, sort of a doll for Annie, a toy." He held up the tubular but still-headless body he had carved from a piece of kindling. "He has legs, but I haven't finished.