“Nothing… well, something… something pretty important, actually… but today isn’t the day I’m going to tell you.” She kissed him tenderly on the lips, and before he knew it, she was up and telling him that they should go back to her house and go swimming.

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Paul started advancing through the garage. Bill was thinking to himself that he really needed to clean up more. There were tools scattered all over workbenches around the garage… breaker bars, ratchet handles, big adjustable wrenches. Those all made good weapons. And he didn’t want to have any of them used against him.

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As they finished their desert, sharing a brownie a la mode, Amy asked, “What’s going on?”
“What do you mean?”
Did my dad bribe you to take me out?”

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In front of the class stood Amy Prince. Her father had just transferred to Fort Monroe from Elgin Air Force Base near Fort Walton Beach in Florida. She had been terribly sad to leave all her friends behind in Fort Walton Beach and start all over in a new school.

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Courage was way down from that eleven a moment ago… maybe a seven. He could still do this. He looked over at Amy. ‘How could he be intimidated by a girl that only stood a couple of inches over five feet? Heck, she couldn’t weigh more than a hundred pounds dripping wet. Because I’m not fighting her, I’m asking her out’, he thought to himself. ‘This is WAY scarier.’

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As soon as Terry cleared the threshold into the house and closed the door behind him, Mr. Prince turned to Jack, “Are you thinking of asking my little girl out on a date, Jack?” He wore a serious expression as he posed the question to the teenager.

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