"Oh," I said, disappointed. The genie looked at my sad face."Okay, Sam, I could give you some small ones, but within reason,"he said. I felt my face s...ine right up."Could you restore my mom and give me plenty of relatives andfriends?" I asked."Well... The dead mom is a bit tough, but there could be a waypast that..." He nodded, thinking."A nice house and a really fat bank account?" I asked."Stop! Hold it... Remember Aladdin. I won't influence the economyagain; it would only mess things up," he. "I didn't like her description of the creep, but I shrugged it off. Kelly never gave me a reason to doubt her loyalty. Love is truly blind.I could see my fate was sealed. There would be no changing her mind. Sometimes a man has to give an inch to gain a mile. I didn't want anything to interfere with my plan to make mad passionate love with her when we got home.We arrived at the party a little late. Some of the people were already a little drunk. The music filled the room. People were dancing,. You know, embarrassed. And the few times you'vetalked to me so far, you've been teasing me." You care about me teasing you? We always tease each other in our family,that's part of what we do. You used to always tease me, calling me fat ordumb or nerdy or gay. I've been living with those comments all my life!Why would it bother you now? I thought that's what we do!"I was surprised with his insight, and said, "I guess you're right, I'veteased you. And I'm sorry that I did that. I guess it just. But I'm not stupid!" I'm sure you're not Lennie, I can understand your boredom though, there isn't much for a young person to do here as far as entertainment goes; but surely there's other things to do. Do you go fishing?" I've tried but there's no fish out there, you need a boat to get to them and there's not much chance of me getting one of them is there?" Dunno about that Lennie, there's plenty of fish when I go out. Tell you what, you be here about four o'clock and I'll take you out in the.