At nearly 18 now, a lot of them I had gotten over, but I will always be a little bit insecure. He has helped me overcome a lot of my insecurities. Lik...e when I went to senior prom last year, he sat there for like an hour trying to get it through my head that I was gorgeous. "I can't tell you right at this moment," he said. "Look it's absolutely perfect and I know that you're going to love it." "Alright." I sighed and rolled my eyes. I really wish that he would just tell me already. I mean we are. I mean, I'd had heard at times the older girls talking in the bathroom about such things, like lying about their ages and grade. "Ahhhh. . ." Jon said."What?" I quickly asked."Well, I almost finished my first year of school, but the truth is, I didn't. My grades were horrible, so I couldn't even graduate, much less go to college." Ohh - - - that stinks," I said, feeling sorry for him and feeling ashamed that I kinda lied to him, as he was thinking I was already in high school."I guess I could. Going back with him just showed how low she had been feeling about things.She could do a lot better than Tommy. Better than Mike Sweeney too. She just wished that she didn't think of him so much, and that he wasn't the one she thought about when she gave herself that special feeling every night.Mike decided that he needed to do something, or else risk going crazy. He couldn't sit in his room every night, beating his meat, and thinking about Jennie. He didn't want to be with her, couldn't stand. As luck would have it, we prospered. After my mother's death, my Dad languished for several months. Idid everything I could to console him and, gradually, he began to come outof his depression. Somewhere in this period, I suggested moving my bedinto his room so as to be near him. He seemed to like that idea. Therewere times during this period when he would have depressing dreams andnightmares and I would leave my bed and crawl in with him and hold himclosely. He never objected to this and.