"Well Sophie gest home at 4, she can be here with the builder." My dad looked at me and smiled. "Ok well as long as you don't have anything on aft...r school. No Netball?" My mum asked "No thats fine. I'll be here. I'm gonna go have a shower now. Thanks for dinner mum." I smiled at my parents, cleared my plate and went upstairs to get ready for bed.I had a stressful day, studying for exams and finishing work, I had never been one to stick to deadlines and always found school would end up. ”“Why is it that I’m not surprised?”“He likes to show off, but he’s a damned good architect.”A beat up old truck pulled to a stop and parked behind Nguyen Dung’s truck. A man of obvious Inra descent stepped out of the truck. Unlike the majority of his countrymen, the man was fat almost to the point of being obese. It clear he had never missed a meal. He walked over to where General Wynn and Nguyen Dung were standing.“I am Ankur Reddy, but you should address me as Mr. Reddy. I am the contractor. Deena and I had already decided on a favorite Mexican restaurant. Bill didn’t kick over it. He likes the place, too.After the meal we headed to the middle school. Bill’s nervous. I’m a little nervous, too. The news about Deena having her teenaged best friend married to her dad is old now, but that just means that it’s no longer the hot topic of discussion. A few of our contemporaries, both hers and mine, have seen us out and about. Unlike a lot of teens, Deena didn’t particularly mind being. Jane,’ she threw her hands up in frustration, ‘The way I feel for Charlie… it’s like when I kiss him, the whole world stops, and as cliché as that sounds, it’s true. I would give up anything, my whole life. And I know he would do the same for me. And he understands me and accepts me in a way no one else ever has or ever will,’ Cynara looked down at her friend, ‘I just don’t want you to go through a vanilla life, with no passion or love or romance. Don’t you want to have someone to love, and who.