"I hate to mention this, guys," Moose finally said, but all our stuff isback in the mine, and I haven't had any breakfast or anything." Heshifted unc...omfortably and added, "And I sort of have to, uh, well, take aleak." Go ahead," laughed Will. "This place could use another color. Thatceiling is getting to me." Well," Moose looked uncharacteristically embarrassed. "That's just it. I don't want to spoil their nice, clean hallway." Can you hold it? Tell you what. Don't move. I'll run down. ..no harm in that is there?" She was already getting up and taking him by the hand and leading him to their table. Neil couldn't really refuse without coming across as a complete insensitive oaf."Hi!" Wendy blurted out in her a-little-too-enthusiastic way.Neil made it a point to grab a separate chair rather than join them in the booth. As if to add more safe space distance, he turned the wooden chair backwards so the back of it was between him and their table.The evening progressed a little too. I glanced around, and found most of them giggling at me."Class is over! Wake up and go home!" Sexy as she was, Ms. Mott could be real bitch.Not that I wasn't happy to be out of there. It had been a long day of boring lectures, tiring gym and hard desks for pillows. My neck hurt a little and I thought how much better it would've been to lay my head on something softer. When I thought of that, I looked at the girls in my class, almost unconsciously. I went from left to right.The first I saw was. Her two children meant more to her than anyone could fathom. Raising them alone was hard and not the life she had expected. She had grown up in the prototypical Midwest family. Her mother stayed home and her father worked long hours to see that they were comfortable. She had gone to school, raised rabbits for the 4H club and spent every Thursday afternoon with the Girl Scouts in the hall at the Lutheran Church.She had played dolls with her best friend and the two had secrets that they had.