" In sub-zero weather, in a snow storm?" I'll warm you up when you are done." She batted her eyelashes at me. Damn her.I drained the rest of my precio...us whisky. I'm sure I might have vocalized my current feelings of misfortune. I drug on my warm clothes, snow boots, heavy coat, hat, and heaviest gloves. Still grumbling, I headed out to retrieve the instruction sheet. Provided it had one.My first step into the yard I sank to my knees. Two feet of snow already. Great. The journey out to the shed. The lightly wavedhair looks good on you." Really?" Sarah actually beamed. "But at that time I thought it was allterrible. Next I was given corkscrew locks to the left and right of myface. I found them the worst. I cut them off as soon as I got away fromAunt Sophie's." These days that might look rather unusual. But it's not so bad. A lotof girls have similar hairstyles." I've seen that in school. But then it was bad. I suddenly looked like agirl. I was completely beaten down. In that condition. The girls chattered for a few minutes. I only listened with half an ear, trying to think, trying to get my head on straight. I'd just spotted Carmen and Marcy on their way back when the squeals started up again behind me."Kitty, Kitty!" the twins jumped up and down behind me and waved their arms.A black-haired girl in a concubine's shift, who'd just come into the room with a group of people, saw them and ran over, wrapping her arms around both of them. The ones she was with, two sponsors in. " Yes they do, and it may be the answer for you as well. It might not even be a long term arrangement as we may meet more groups of survivors and there may be someone closer to your own age amongst them." Well, what do I have to do?"I thought for a few seconds and said, "Does your mum know anything about your thoughts?" Yes, she spoke to me when I had my first wet dream and said that since the collapse things would be different. There were no girls of my age in the village and I may have to.