.. pleased with the way it looked. Is that what Hanson had seen in her? The short turned-up nose and gay blue eyes? The freckles and wide, full mouth ...ll curvy at the corners? Billie smiled into the mirror and her cheeks dimpled cutely. Then she blushed red at how she was thinking about Hanson, and quickly turned away.When she saw the paperback Jed had loaned her she suddenly remembered the colored photographs inside. With everything happening the way it had that morning, she'd almost forgotten. I relaxed when I saw his trademark impish grin flickering at me as we passed under a series of streetlights. Then he bent forward and gave me a quick kiss on the forehead to silently let me know it was OK. After that, we just lay quietly facing each other, gazing fondly into each others eyes until there were no more streetlights and we were once again shrouded in darkness. That whole time, my heart was hammering in my chest and I wanted nothing more than to feel his soft, warm maleness once. “She’ll be living here from now on. So you two can get acquainted while I go get us some pizza. Erica, sorry that we’re only gonna have pizza to welcome you but we’ve never had a woman around the house so that’s something we’ll just have to get used to,” said my dad smiling stupidly as he always did. He walked out the front door and drove off in the car. Once the car couldn’t be heard anymore, Erica turned to me. “What the hell was that?!” I half yelled. “What the hell was what?” she asked. S. Federal Reserve Bank, the Treasury Department and other agencies were there, but they were not admitted. Finally, close to 4:00, someone showed up with a court order and six people were admitted – three from the Fed, three from Treasury.Armis appeared near the ceiling of the stage and floated down to about five feet about the deck. “I’m sorry to have called you here for nothing. There are six uninvited attendees, from the U.S. government, so we will not be proceeding today. There is nothing.