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and watched, whispering. What were they all looking

at? I wondered, and then gazed down and saw that

Frankie had his hand in my blouse. One of the buttons

of my blouse had come undone and he was undoing

another and another.

"For a moment even I was confused about it.

Then his fingers lifted the underside of my bra and

exposed my breast.

"'Let's see if everything's all right,' he declared. "'Stop!' I screamed and pulled away, but when I

rose, I stumbled into Tony's arms, only instead of

catching me, he put his hands on my bosom and held

me up that way, his left hand smack over my naked

breast.

"'It's all right. Yeah,' he declared. Everyone was

laughing, even the girls.

"'My turn!' Michael said coming up behind me.

'There's enough for all of us.'

"He reached over and cupped my breasts,

lifting my bra off the left side, too, and pulled me

back against him I lost my footing and slid down his

body to the floor. Everyone kept laughing, but I

started crying and that finally ended it.

"The girls took me to the bathroom where I

threw up. They helped me clean up and kept assuring

me it was all right and the boys would behave now. I

had such a splitting headache, but all I could think

was my mother would find out everything. I went into

a crying jag.

"The boys left shortly afterward, maybe

because they were afraid of getting in trouble, and