I was sure hewas smiling behind his mask. Still, I felt unable to complain, with my thumblodged in my mouth."Lots of lip shit...wait.." He made a show... of looking up."Have you even kissed a guy?" No." I said around my thumb. This was true. We both knew that, and we bothknew that was the-"So much makeup....perfume. Wait, what's this?" He held up a grey furrysleep mask. "You can take your thumb out."My thumb trails some spit, and glistens with pink lip gloss. "I'm going toAmber's for a sleepover.. You don't need to know anything else about her. She'll need to leave at three. You just wait in the room. I'll be back to pick you up."I thought I'd never stop shaking as Brian pulled into the motel and stopped in front of room 123. When he knocked on the door, the shaking stopped and a feeling of euphoria, warm and tingling, flooded through me. She cracked the door, saw it was Brian and let us in."Hi, Vicky," Brian said, as he gave her a quick kiss. "This is Mike, my little brother. Mike, this. The boss was the kind of person who had to micromanage everything and everyone, who couldn’t trust anyone to get a single detail correct and so was constantly looking over the shoulders of every employee, sometimes literally breathing down their necks.But there was little that Anita could do about it. This was because she was, in fact, the boss: the sole owner, president, CEO, and undisputed head honcho of SofterWare, a company that created computer programs and games designed specifically for. I’ll call Gloria and tell you to add your name as an authorized driver.’ ‘But this is a $70,000 vehicle.’ ‘Yeah but so what – when did you last have a car insurance claim?’ ‘Mid 1970s.’ ‘There you go. Let me show you how it works.’ Everyone, including Roman marvelled the way the metal roof rose out of the trunk and clicked into place in seconds. Roman smiled, ‘You boys cruise along the road on the edge of Onetangi beach and you ought to be able to pull a couple of babes.’ ‘In your dreams,’.