"Yeah, I'm good." Though I didn't believe myself"Flashbacks again?" Is it that obvious?" Only to those who know you. Come on, we are headed to the bon...fire."Carl was my best friend of 20 years and is 5 years older than I am. We had grown up together in California and left when we both got a job at an oil refinery in the south. He was 6 feet tall and skinny as a rail, his meager 150 lbs covered in tattoos. He had been going bald for years and had taken to shaving his head every few days. Though. One girl that sort of latched onto me for the duration of the night was a pretty Korean-American girl named Soo Jin Choi, who went by the nickname Suji. I knew her from the clarinets and also through her parents, Sung Min and Ji Yeon Choi, who own a local dry cleaner I use. Suji has been working there since she turned 16.Suji has always been friendly to me at band events, but her behavior kept getting flirtier as the night went on. I have to admit that I flirted back. She was cute and slender –. "I begged her to stop before it was to late, but she kept on goingand soon all 10 fingers were extended a good half inch and ready forpolish. Lisa began to coat my nails with a clear base coat. Whilethat dried she pulled a bunch of make-up out of her drawer."Please Lisa, don't put makeup on me!" This is getting tiresome Jenny, if you don't stop whining I'll giveyou something to cry about!"Over the next hour Lisa covered my face and eyes with variouspowders and liquids. My feminine nails were. Don't get me wrong, they weren't wealthy either and it was an above ground pool but it had a nice deck around it and they had put a shade sail over it earlier this summer. Just thinking about going for a dip in it made me smile.I even contemplated sneaking over there while they were at work and going for a quick dip to cool off. The thought of it and being sneaky gave me a little thrill and I had even formulated a plan before I remembered that I had seen their son's car in the driveway when I.