"All right, that's settled. Now all we have to do is speak to Brenda's parents and get permission for her to go with me. I think we'll have to tell th...m that it's an early birthday present, Brenda, and that we're going to Scotland to visit my father."Brenda's birthday was on March the thirty-first so an early birthday present would sound like a plausible excuse for me to pay for her to join me on a trip."The only white lie in what I intend to tell your parents is that we are going to Scotland,". She coldly informed me that she needed some time alone to think about it. It was one of her most brazen lies, and I can’t believe she didn’t immediately realize that I knew it was a lie, but by then I was so used to her lying to me that maybe neither of us cared anymore.”“How did you know it was a lie?”“She virtually ignored me for the rest of the week, and then she spent the next four days at your apartment. I’m guessing you didn’t pass the time discussing my job prospects.”There’s no need to. And this was definitely NOT the time to tell him about Chad the forward on the basketball team and the dances or those little white pills that were softening his features and other things. Frank did attend that game and saw what, for all intents and purposes, was his daughter out there cheering her little heart out. It blew him away. Some of the kids even chanted, Toni, Toni when they wanted to see a special gymnastic move and she would respond with one. He may as well accept 'her'. The. He knew that Princess Dee could be cruel, but he didn'tthink that she was so volatile.In fact, Princess Dee wasn't that volatile. She had acted that way forthe explicit purpose of throwing Tom off-guard. A little fear would be agood thing for what she had planned for him later that evening. In themeantime she thought it best to get Tom's dinner out of the way and toldhim to go get a bowl of his beans and bring them back so she could watchhim eat.'Oh shit!' Tom thought to himself. The beans and.