” I say, “I see, what about your mom?” She answers,” My mom is not home either, She went with my grandma to the next town over to do some shop...ing and they might be gone most of the day.” At this point I am starting to think that something is up and I tell her, “Why didn’t you go with them?” Crystal says, “No I hate going with them shopping, I would rather stay home than go with them!” When I hear her say what she said, my mind starts to go into overdrive and I start to think to myself that. “My name is Lavanya,” she smiled back. “Pleased to meet you. Think it will be a hard flight?”“It’s always been a decent flight.”“Do you make it often?”“Often enough. My job requires it probably twice a month. I fly everywhere.”“Kansas?”She laughed, “No, not anywhere exotic like that.”They laughed and Bridgett again remembered Gabrielle responding passionately to her hand; she flushed and Lavanya looked at her curiously. “Hot?”“A little.”She shivered slightly, “That will pass, friend, that will. Violetta had been busy helping Jacqui to fashion the dress from old clothes and scraps in the few days Jacqui had been in the New House of Joy.Jacqui looked at Colin who seemed to be frozen in open admiration of this delight he had bought for the night. The dress clearly worked on him; it said, as it was supposed to, "Here is all I am, and all my best features, and they are all for you to use as you please." Nobody, man or woman, could have failed to understand and to respond to its message.. It’s just so frustrating that the most interesting male in my life, and by a long shot, is my own Dad. The only person within hailing distance is Brett.”“Not Bradley,” she asked in a faux breathless voice.“You funny, girl,” I responded in a fake Chinese accent. “He’s pretty, but, man, is he a jerk. I wouldn’t want him within three blocks of my naked body.”“It’s a good thing that he lives four blocks away, then.”I snorted. “Brett is actually funny, if you can get him to talk at all. I think that.