B or better, honey. Nothing you can't handle.." She dragged heavily on the cigarette, "...with the right motivation." Mark smiled and shook his head a...gain. "No bullshit, mum?"'No bullshit, darling." This is so not normal."Helen shrugged. "When have we ever been normal?" Yeah, but this is like above and beyond. You're talking about..." Mark lowered his voice, as if profanity was still taboo at this point, "...fucking."Helen shrugged again, and sipped her wine. " Well as long as we remember I'm. " Wasn't it though."So saying, she leaned into me and gave me a toe curling kiss on my lips. That brought a few surpised looks and lewd comments from nearby students, especially since the kiss wasn't a short one. I think there might even have been a tendril of smoke rising above my head.When she broke the contact, I said, "Jesus, Janice, you do much more of that and we'll get suspended for excessive PDA." Is that worse than just plain PDA?"We both laughed at that crack."Well, at least that. ’ ‘Oh don’t be such a stuffed shirt, I had to convince you that this would be more fun than doing it by yourself. You need to do like us real country girls and take your fun where you can find it!’ Ah, the old stigma of living thirty minutes outside of Little Rock. Most city people think country people are ignorant louts, and they would probably be surprised that country people thought the same of them. In fact, the general rule was, the closer to town, the lower the IQ. Of course, she couldn’t. I would like that. We can get to know each other better that way.” He smiled and she smiled back at him. He closed the car door gently but firmly and stepped back as I cranked and pulled away toward my parents’ home.Karen said, “Suzie-Q, what do you think about him?”She smiled. “He was very nice yesterday evening and this morning. He didn’t impress me much at the mall but I wasn’t really paying attention then. I’m glad I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I’ll wait for him to call though I.