.” Rachel started to say after taking that breath, then paused as she realized that she was reacting defensively without any regard for whether she ...was speaking truthfully or not. She had never lied to the woman sitting across from her and she wasn’t about to start now.“It’s okay Rachel,” Belle said in the same reassuring voice, “take your time and say what you want to say. I promise that, whatever it is, it will be okay.”“I was about to say that I’m not a lesbian,” Rachel said, pausing for a. I was furious that this was becoming the Ben and Ashley thing and needed to get rid of that vagina before it got any worse. I called up some of my friends from school and from my neighbourhood to come hang out and swim in the pool. It wasnt a big pool by any means but it did the job on warm, summer days like this one. I know Ben would never risk doing anything around my friends, so it would definitely buy me some time until Thomas arrived. During my call to Thomas, I casually let go that Ashley. It had left her with a political view diametrically opposite of his.Under the guidance of President Taylor, the United States had become a harsh country. There was nothing in place to mitigate the consequences of failure. People became extremely conservative and risk adverse. People who took chances risked losing money, home, and family. In a land with lots of empty space, there were millions of homeless people. It appeared that many people didn’t learn caution until it was too late.Large. Just because they were close didnt mean that she had liked her, or even loved her. Maybe she had just deluded herself into believing something that wasnt real because she was so lonely. Maybe she was just so desperate to feeling something… Mai sobbed more and buried herself under her blankets. The volume of her sobs masked the noise of her once-friend coming into the room and sitting on the floor next to her bed. When her sobs had died down enough that she could hear outside her cocoon of.