Chapter 17: Who Would Visit Me Here?

• Crystal had always sat behind Carlos in class, so this was a familiar view of her. In the self-study classes, they had worn the same style of headphones, and Crystal had often stared at the back of his head for the whole class, with no sense at all of the passing time.
• Crystal looked away in disgust, and when Joyce saw that she no longer had an audience, she quit performing. After a few minutes, she looked at Crystal and said, “I heard that you almost got kicked out of school. yesterday” she laughed. “If it weren’t for Daddy’s money, you would be long gone. Isn’t that correct?”
• Unlike Joyce, Carlos was a little embarrassed by the situation, and now that the two girls were talking, he nudged Joyce back onto the couch, and his cheeks turned pink as he covered his pants with a pillow. Joyce patted the cushion playfully and said, “Isn’t it exciting to stage a Passion Play? When you dated this prude, she wasn’t even willing to kiss you in public. What a phony. I knew all along that she was the biggest slut of us all!”