She was still upset with him and was about to put him off again, but then she thought about how whiney Shawn's been lately and how nice it would be to... have Cricket around for a change.'Besides, ' she thought. 'There's a few things I'd like to ask him!'"I been good, whatchu been up to?" Missin' you." I saw you with my brother." Yeah?" So what were you doin' with him?" Hey, want ta get together and talk about it?" Yeah, okay." So where are you?" Headin' downtown on the bus." Good, I'll pick you. ‘I -feel- too much, and it runs away with the rest of me. You know this. This is why I’m calling you, you know.’ She slumped. ‘Yes. I know.’ ‘I haven’t got any place else to go with these goddam feelings.’ ‘I know.’ A full minute of painful silence passed. She couldn’t stand it any longer. ‘So.’ ‘So?’ ‘So. What are you going to do?’ ‘…do?’ His puzzlement over her question was as palpable as if she’d asked it in Swahili. ‘Yes, what are you going to do?’ Pause. Swallow. ‘Well, I think I’m going. I said “You didn’t!!!” , she said that they had been for a few months and that one day their dad had caught them and whipped them bad. That didn’t stop them though and they continued to play over in the fort in the woods across the street. She asked me if I wanted to play doctor with them and I said it might be fun. My mom and dad went dancing every Saturday night with most of my aunts and uncles. Couple of weeks later Marty asked if she could spend the night and that James would come. Yvonne and I crouched down as we dragged her jeans over her long legs down to her feet, I looked up, my face was mere inches from her panties and I could see the shadow of the dark triangle through the thin cotton. I let out an involuntary groan that sounded like a low guttural growl of lust and a moan of desire. Yvonne looked at me with raised eyebrows, then noticed where my face was, she smiled and carried on with the task of extracting Emma's feet from the tangled jeans.Once they were off,.