Entre les conneries d'un garçon de cité HLM, les petits vols (emprunts) de mobylettes et une situation scolaire catastrophique. Je n'étais franchem...ent pas le plus épanoui des garçons de mon âge !Toujours puceau, je ramassais râteau sur râteau de la part des filles qui m'aimaient bien pour la plupart mais comme copain pas plus. Il faut dire que j'étais le roi de la déconne et des bêtises et çà m'attirais une petite aura auprès de la gente féminine mais en tous cas çà ne m'aidait pas pour la. I whipped around to face the window and saw nothing. I couldn’t see outside because it was so dark there and bright in the house, so I turned off the kitchen light and stood in the darkness. Lightening flashed again and there he was. The man in the hat was outside my window. My throat tightened and I couldn’t breath as I stood watching him leer at me through the window. I expected him to cup his hands around his eyes to look in the house. He couldn’t have seen inside with rain like that. Except. 'That sounds familiar... ' "You mean that box that Beth used to talk to? I don't even know where that's at any more," Tanya informed them."Beth talked to a box?" Frank Junior asked. "Katydid's been carrying a metal box around for the last couple of months. She won't let it out of her sight, in fact. And she talks to it! She even brought it with her – insisted on going all the way back to the trailer to get it." She has a Praetor?" Jake asked. 'Everybody has one of these things except me!'"What. .. She thought ruefully.Case hardly stirred as she slipped from the warm bed. She stepped into the adjacent bathroom for a quick shower. She hated removing the smell of them, but it felt like it was an important first step in their new relationship – a ritual cleansing perhaps.She dried herself and moved back into the bedroom where she took clean underwear and jeans and a sweater from the bottom drawer of the chest of drawers in the room. After their breakup she’d never got around to removing.