It was silly of me, wasn't it, Mum?" No, darling! Not at all, just a very natural reaction."Annette smiled weakly. "Well, then there was sex-ed at sch...ool and, while I took a certain amount in, I kept on thinking, 'How could people do that? If you shouldn't even touch yourself down there how could two people do that together?' And so I thought that they must want to have a baby very, very much to go through with it. But then the teacher said that if two people truly loved each other they would. Our bus arrived near noon at the bus depot, and before I had reached home, I was up-to-date with the news. We only walked a few paces when we were stopped; it was as if everyone wanted to speak to me. I must say it felt good, I never felt so popular, and maybe it was just to look Allan over, for there are very few if any really black people in the community. I wouldn't say they were rednecks, it was just they never had the opportunity to mix outside their Caucasian race. Of course it could have. Trish had been frozen in place, but seeing the boy moving toward her friend, she ran right at him and threw a shoulder into him.The boy was knocked off balance, but he was large, and apparently quite strong. He threw Trish aside roughly, sending her banging into the next car, then sliding to the ground, stunned. Meanwhile, the first boy caught Lindsey by the upper arm.At first, Lindsey was terrified, but anger quickly took over. She had her backpack full of books in her hand, and swung it at. What happened?" A girl likes to keep some secrets, mister. You sure are snoopy. Are you going to give me a ride or not?" I will if you tell me what happened between you and Devon." You tell me something I want to know first," Heather insisted."Okay," said her brother. "What do you want to know?" I want to know what's going on between you and Mom and I don't want some bullshit lie. If you want to talk about tense, Mom is really on edge and I think you're the cause." I think you're imagining it,".