Luke grabsthe bag with my clothes and he stuffs the paper bag inside and he carriesthe bag.We get to the food court and 2 girls come up to Luke. I rol... my eyes andkeep walking, Luke says I will catch you girls at school. He keeps up withme. We get in the car and Luke said what you want to do. I shrug myshoulders. He says I can drop you off at Phillips. I tell him we talked andhe is with his mom. Luke starts driving and we go to McDonalds. I say Ijust aye taco bell, I am not hungry. Luke says. Gordon was sitting in the "story-teller's chair" a few feet away from me. He had a reading light on and was holding what I assumed was his Bible. He was looking at me, though."Good morning, Brian. I hope my reading here didn't disturb your sleep. I often spend a few quiet moments here in the morning to get my day started. The room has such lovely child-energy in it from the kindergartners. Even when they aren't here." Yessir. I mean, no sir. I always wake up about this time, Rev. Gordon." I was. There were going to be somewhere around forty people at the party, including Malin and some of Elyse’s other friends from UofC. Sofia had invited a couple of girls from Loyola, and I’d made sure that all my friends from IIT were invited to avoid a serious imbalance in the number of males and females.About 6:30pm, Sofia, Kara, and I went upstairs to dress. Our plan was to make an entrance about 7:15pm, and Elyse had agreed to get everyone to the bottom of the staircase at that time. Sofia and. I watched her opponent warming up in his corner, he looked pretty tough, but I could tell he had no formal boxing training. He would be dead meat by the end of the first round. Lisa made her entrance moments later, Karen was her second. As she entered the ring, she glanced over in my direction and blew me a kiss; which I returned with a kiss of my own and an "I love you."She removed her robe and flexed her muscles to the sounds of applause from the crowd, almost fifty percent were women. There.