“Oh, great.Round two of Knowing Your Body, By Debbi Winstead.”

“For one thing,I have school tomorrow. Two,my right leg is still in Sasquatch mode.”

“My Best Friend Forever likes my True Love Always!"Oh,brother, I'm glad these things are secret,or he'd never get his jersey over his big head," Sarah grumbles.”

“He looks over at me, six feet two inches of total fear, and I sell him out-sell him right down the river.”

“Well, I don't know," he starts, looking down and then up again, anywhere but at me. "Like, for example, your new clothes, it's like a whole new you. You dress more like those girls now.""I just want to look nice!" I defend myself."No,not that that's a bad thing, Ricki Jo!" he says, glancing down at me and then back over his shoulder. "You look great. Really pretty, actually.Just, you didn't care before and you were still"-he stammers on-"y-you know...pretty.”

“Oh,you talking to me now?" I ask."What?" he aks innocently, his cocoa eyes ide. "You noticed my silencio treatment in Spanish class?" He takes his shot,sinking it."Yeah,I noticed when I had to do Actividad twenty-to by myself,as both waiter and customer," I say, catching the ball and passing it back to him.”

“(My momma + curvy roads= wear your seat belt.”