Sally was window shopping and Jake and I were talking about nothing much when a shout was heard behind us. A "dudey" looking cowboy came strutting up ...to us and made an insulting remark to Sally about not wanting to spend some time in his bed the night before. Jake and I took exception to this, but I was the only one wearing a gun, so Jake let me do all of the talking.I spun the galoot around and demanded that he apologize to Sally. He said, "I don't apologize ta any whore I decide ta talk ta.. It gave her a handful of borrowed hours to forget the ugly, tiring consequences her real life seemed to thrive on. She just had to — just had to be the innocent, anonymous child she never was.The pink room was already filled with people, many of whom she knew. But as soon as she entered, she felt a difference. No one came up to her for a hug and a kiss. No one cried out her name in welcome, waving and running to share the latest gossip. They stood with their backs to her at one corner of the. Kim nearly lost her head, she loved it so much, and the DP became part of our bi-weekly ritual.I encountered Mrs. Haley Forester, girl's physical education teacher, at the beginning of the second semester in January when Ms. Waggoner sent me to take some health book brochures to her. Haley was a 28 year old true blonde with warm blue eyes. When I walked into the gym with the brochures, almost every girl in the gym class greeted me and she wanted to know how I knew them all. I just shrugged but. The katas he'd been practicing for these last weeks flowed with a smoothness and power that only the top students could match.Ken, however, saw little of that. The only person he compared himself to was Sensei Turcotte. Try as he might, he found he couldn't quite match the effortless movements of the older man. Weeks of stretching made it easier to move the way he thought he should, and weight work with Eric had put more muscle mass on his body. He noticed there were several women in the class.