I must look like hell.”“We look great. Don’t sweat it.”Without further discussion, Shannon pulled out of Alice’s driveway and headed toward ...town. I drifted in and out of thinking, not thinking, and even dozing a bit. My head was hurting quite a bit now. Eventually Shannon turned down a side street near town and pulled into a driveway.“Is this your house?” I asked.“Yeah. Would you mind if I took a quick shower and grabbed my dance stuff? I have to be at the studio this morning for class, so it’d. But the small car's four-way flashers were clearly on. Poor bastard -- it was really coming down in buckets out there. Since he'd been in the back room surfing for porn on the computer all night, he wasn't really sure how long the car had been there. They hadn't come knocking, so Bobby could only guess they'd used a cell phone to call for help.Still, this was a quiet back road in a small town. He knew exactly what both his grandfather and his father would do in a situation like this. They'd go. He asked her what happened and she stared crying again, he held her hand and said its gonna be okay, I’m here, not knowing what he would be up against, all he knew was that seeing this girl cry made something in his tummy stir and he knew he wanted nothing else but to see her smile. She reacted to his touch by looking into his eyes and the tears stopped flowing, he noticed how red like the brown in her eyes were she then leaned in and kissed him on the lips and fainted. He lifted her up with a. But were only second cousins” I told her. “And hey, what the heck…I’m a guy and well you’re a girl…so why not?” She was nodding when I told her that, half agreeing to what I’d said, and she came back with, with a smile on her face, saying “I guess so…why not?” “That sounds…cool,” I told her. “When would you like to go out?” “Tonight?” she said. “Maybe around 8:30? I can meet you wherever you want.” “Why not come over to my place? We can go from there,” I suggested and she said okay. I gave her.