<strong>"I dunno,"</strong>she replies, sounding not entirely convinced and still pretty miserable.<strong>"I'll only make you mad again!  I always seem to make people mad.  I don't know why."</strong><br/><br/>You can hear the pout in her voice.  At least she's complaining instead of just being weepy and upset.<br/><br/>"The pretty girls never want to play and the boys don't understand that I don't like them..."<br/><br/>She pauses for thought.<br/><br/><strong>"Promise me a kiss each and I'll come down,"</strong>she offers, a hint of the sly trickster peeking through her misery.<strong>"On the lips."</strong>A moment later, she modifies it again.<strong>"No tongue, I promise."</strong><br/>