Well, I think I failed the test today and I need to do well in this class if I'm going to graduate in May..." Lynn paused to catch her breath."The rea...son Mom's in Portland is that she's looking for a house. She's decided she wants to move closer to her brothers and sister and she said she'll wait until after I graduate. If I don't graduate in May..." You and Billy will be fine," I reassured her."I know. It's just hard sometimes." Yeah, sometimes it is." Sometimes it is." Lynn forced a smile.. Rico would have dealt with them as soon as he found out – as he did when Andy delivered the news. But Rico would want an explanation about the problem – and that would get a homegirl into the shit."If your parents are cool with it, I think Rico can be talked around if it's what Lupe wants," he said."I should tell you, I have a brother who is 17 and he's probably as big a jerk as the guys Lupe has been dealing with for the past few months," Elizabeth said. "I'll make sure he leaves her alone.. I gave blowjobs and even faked orgasms but real ones were few and far between.One guy that I was very close to asked me to marry him. I told him I needed to talk to my Dad before I could give him an answer. I thought I loved him but I wasn't sure. I went home for the Christmas holidays and decided to talk with Dad about Bill. I told Dad I had something very important to talk with him about."You're not pregnant are you Marie?" Dad! No, I'm not pregnant. Bill, the guy I told you I was dating. In a way it made sense, no one was going to starve, but there was a lot of work to do and the 'extras' gave people a reason to do it instead of sitting around like most of the people in the center had done before it fell.She finished darning another sock and looked up at the string of Christmas lights strung near the ceiling. There wasn't a light switch, instead they plugged into an extension cord that ran through a hole in the wall halfway between the cast iron stove and the door, right by a.