Shelley, you think she'll take me back? Alex asks her, his hair dangerously close to her fingers. She doesn't pull his hair . . . just pats his head gently. I feel the tears running down my cheeks at...
How was the kiss with Alex?Nice, I say, thinking about how sensual it was. Actually, Isabel, it was more than nice. It was fucking incredible.Isabel starts laughing, and I laugh right along with her...
I thought we were gonna take this relationship slow.""A back rub is harmless."My eyes roam over her kick-ass bikini-covered bod. "I'll have you know I've been intimate with girls wearin' a lot more.
Come here and lie on your stomach. I know how to give Swedish massages. It'll relax you.""You're not Swedish," I say."Yeah, well, neither are you. So if I do it wrong you'll never know the difference.
You know those giant stuffed-animal prizes at the carnival? The kind practically nobody wins, except the lucky few? I've never won one.""Yeah. I've never won one, either.""Alex was my giant prize. I...
You call that a kiss?Yep.Okay, so I'm in shock the girl put my hand on her creamy cheek. Damn, you'd think I was on drugs by the way my body reacted.She had me totally under her spell a minute ago....
Nice girl. Wears too much makeup.""Most chicks hate her.""Most chicks wish they looked like her. And they wish they had her money and boyfriend."I stop and regard her in disgust. "Burro Face?""Oh,...
When Brittany walks into Mrs. P.'s class on Friday I'm still thinking about how I'm going to get back at her for throwing my keys into the woods last weekend. It took me forty-five minutes to find the...
I don't deserve you. You know that, don't you?""When are you gonna realize you're one of the good guys?" When I don't answer, she pulls my head down to hers. "My body is yours tonight, Alex," she...
How's that sister of yours?" I ask, changing the subject."She's waiting to beat you again at checkers.""Is that right? Well, tell her I was goin easy on her. I was tryin' to impress you.""By losing?"I...
What I can't figure out is if you know you're a tease and are fuckin' with me or whether you really are innocent.""I'm not a tease."I cock an eyebrow, then look down at my upper thigh where she's...
After we've been dancing awhile and need a breather, we walk off the dance floor. I whip out my cell and say, "Pose for me."The first picture I take is of him trying to pose like a cool bad boy. It...
Do you think about making love with me?I lie awake most nights, fantasizing about sleeping next to her ... loving her. Right now, muneca, makin' love to you is the only thing on my mind.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...