“Thought I smelled her. I’ll go speak with Jack before I go.” Nodding, Clara leaned in, and managed something close to a sheepish grin. “So yo...u didn’t ... do that to try and get back at me?”“What? Fuck no.” Rolling her eyes, Jessy slapped a hand on the table, as if lightning struck her brain. “And by all means, transform when you’re with the boys.”“Excuse me?”“Transform. Wolf out, full on werewolf form, you know?”“That is dangerous! That is ... that is asking for someone to get really fucking. I’m not sure whether or not she had forgotten that Joe would be with me but she didn’t cover up immediately. She saw Joe and reached for her bikini top and put it on almost casually. Joe admired the view. We chatted about where we had been and then mum checked the time and said, “Let’s go get ready for dinner.” We went back to the room and took it in turns to shower and change and then went down for dinner. After dinner there was some entertainment so we watched and listened and had a drink.. “I’m sorry I messed things up with Jorge,” she said.“I hope you told Cindi that, but, I think it’ll all work out. He was here to study today. And maybe, just maybe, he really wasn’t ready for what Cindi wanted.”“I’m just cautious, I guess.”“So am I, but I tend to only apply my rules to myself, not to others. It’s what we kept coming back to in the conversations about age, both last spring and last week. We have to strike the right balance of being concerned for people and of letting people. I noticed him doing such things with other young girls as well…everyone in my class started noticing his behaviour towards me and then i was ragged by my classmates to the core..they all started teasing me…i’m a girl who can never fight for herself so i did not protest…but then at the same time i was fed up with this old man as well so i decided to go and complain to our administrator..when i told her about the principal she started laughing at me saying i’m foolish thinking about such.