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I flunghard "Ari, Ari, no one on this earth can kiss the way you do"

I didn’t say anything I’dhe slipped a letter under the door ofHe ended by saying that he would love rateful that the letter didn’t use the word "eternity"

Inbrown day that pretended Saturday had never been--I used e, in case the call ed, we didn’t say a word about s?" I asked

"Things are about the same" Her voice sounded so cold, so detached that it didn’t seem hers "How are you?"

I still felt nue to bite I said, "I am perfectly fine, ma’am"

THREE

Blue Moon Rising

Chapter Fourteen

I wanted to talk to Dashay about hormones I wanted to talk to Dr Cho about Revité

But I couldn’t use the phone to talk freely, and I couldn’t get away On the Internet I found some posts about Revité Apparently the clinical trials were over, and the drug was now available through Vunderworld

One posting, fro in a : "Get back to where you once belonged" And while part of irl who cared only about learning and pleasing her father--o forward But to what?

Soe" The poster said she’d been vaainst my will, forced into a hideous dependence on hu supple holiday celebrations, regular meals, safe relations with my mortal husband"

I would have blushed, if I could

"Those soulless nights, lying awake craving blood while he snored," the post went on, "I thought about suicide"

Did vaht of it until now

"Then I found Revité" The anonyed tone "Now I can cook, and shop, and make love like a real woman! And someday soon, IWhy, then, did I keep reading?

Professor Hogan was envious of me So was Bernadette, and so were four or five other fehts I heard They could tell Walker was in love with me, and it made them feel unloved by contrast, and bitter

Walker was not one to hide his feelings One day he walked into class juggling paper roses, which he laid on the ar he’d made up in which he rhy h, after which their envy only grew

I tried to understand their feelings, but failed At that point inI’d experienced rarely, and only in the abstract: I’d envied other girls’ noran and Bernadette felt went deeper, and it expressed itself in hostility toward !" in red ink on one of my essays, next to a statement that I kneas true, I tried not to take it to heart After all, she was in a relationship with a e his feelings as Walker did She had reason to be envious

But when Bernadette began telling lies aboutout of the rooht we still were friends (It embarrassesirls?)

Walker was the one who toldunder a tree one afternoon; I was reading our politics textbook, and Walker lay with his head onwithlike a curtain over his face; then he separated it into strands, peering through theh school?" he said suddenly

"What?" I let the book snap shut

"Bernadette told me that" All I could see was one of his eyes, and it had a strange, hard brightness

"First of all, I didn’t go to high school--I was honant than I felt "And second, I happen to be a virgin" There--I’d said so to anyone

"Are you really?" He reached up, through my hair, and stroked my cheek

"That tickles" I brushed his hand away "Why would she say sohed "You know, she and I, we hung out a few ti deal, but s for me"

"Maybe she does" Why hadn’t I picked up on that sooner? And what did heout"?

"What else did she say?" I asked

"Just, you know, that I should be careful when I’ You know"