And like before it took his breath away for a few seconds.“Will you stop that?” he asked.“No, I will not stop that,” Kate said.He stared at he...r and she stared back.Kate said, “I have power to make boys do what I want, the smoke gives me power.”“Really,” he replied.She said, “Not every woman can do it, but I can.”There seemed to be a natural attraction between middle aged women and younger boys, Kate felt it as much as anybody, and since she had been 37, robbing the cradle type seductions had. You’ll be accident prone, too; especially at highway speeds. Let me make a couple of calls.”Dave pulled out his cellphone and started calling tire stores in Fargo. They were closed. A call to AAA revealed the wait might be up to eight hours before someone could get to them. Dave thought a bit, and then pulled the spare tire from the back well of the car. He unpacked some of the luggage from his bike, adding it to the pile of Doris’ stuff. He then anchored the spare to the back of his bike with. The soundfrom outside the cubicle was deafening, with laughter, screamingand schoolgirl gossip mixed into a wall of noise. I listened toit and thought that now I was one of them, it was no usecondemning them, to the watching world I was no longer Mark, heno longer existed, I was Lucy a quiet little girl.The time past slowly but at last it was quarter to nine. All thegirls were smooching with boys, I was alone. I started to panic,I had to leave here with a boy or???I hated to think of. ”“What if there were someone you could be with, someone safe?”“Are you offering?”“Yes, Leanne.”“It’s completely out of the question. I’m thirty-eight. It would rob me of my dignity to have an affair with a boy.”Jake stood and walked over to her. He pulled her up from her chair and put his hands on her waist.“I have a boy’s body, but I have advantages no boy has. I have the knowledge of men much older, though I must admit that I’m finding gaps all the time in what I know.”He moved his hands up.