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"I don't care There's no fighting Understood?"

"Yeah, right"

She watched David stomp away and then helped Wendell up He cae Between that and his skinniness, he found hier boys She brushed some of the dust off his clothes and then looked hiht, don't you?"

"Yes, ain"

"What happened?"

"Nothing"

"Come on, Wendell, you can tell me We're friends, aren't we?"

"We are?"

"Of course Now-" Wendell interrupted her by getting on his toes to kiss her on the lips She cuffed hier hian to cry, but when she tried to touch hiht you said ere friends?"

"We are"

"Then why can't I kiss you? That's what boyfriends and girlfriends do"

"Who told you that?"