He would take her to a premiere performance of her work. It did not come close to sink into Allen’s head that he had just decided to take Edie on a...date almost five months into the future and present her with an extravagant gift. It was too good an idea for him to bother with details. Aoede fought back a tear as Klothos kissed her cheek. Allen had ruined two dinners so he dressed, went to the buildings parking garage, got in his car and again drove himself to a pastrami sandwich and a beer. . I was familiar with her forms of humor. The door opened and she stood there laughing and motioned for me to come inside. “Nice to see you.” She said to me as I stepped inside. “Smartass.” I said punching her lightly on the shoulder. She laughed and we went upstairs to her room. I said hello to her mother and grandmother as I passed them in the hallway. I set my bag down on the floor in her room and took my shoes off and she sat on her bed. We talked for a few minutes catching up. She mentioned. But there was nothing.She couldn't miss school tomorrow. It was her senior year and tomorrow was the last day to take the SAT's, but she certainly couldn't go like this. She looked at her clock. 10:20. She needed to come up with a solution before it got too much later. Her eyes wandered from her clock to the cup, stuffed with pens and pencils...and a pair of scissors. She smiled and rushed across the room, petticoat bouncing, and picked them up. First she tried to slip them under the waistband,. I could see her van still parked in my driveway as I drove up to my house. I can't say that her not being moved out was a complete surprise to me. I'd known that she seldom did anything she didn't really want to do. She was mentally tougher than most people, probably to compensate for being so much weaker than everyone else, physically. It was my property she was now squatting on though, and I wasn't really in the mood to put up with any foot dragging on her part about going somewhere else to.