"I was speechless – impressed and nonplussed. Finally, I babbled out the first thing that came to my mind. "Errr, that's a big decision, and you're ...oung and single, and pretty, and available, and there are so many people you could partner with ... and what do you mean you're not even ready?"Edie kissed me. "Relax. I'm still on the pill, silly. Plus, I've thought about all my options plus talked with George and Summer. Besides, the two of them, you are the person I love the most in the whole. "I said, "O.K., O.K. I surrender." I wanted to start putting my plan into action and I changed the subject and asked Carrie where she was staying on Saturday night."I have a reservation at the Airport Comfort Inn. I have an early flight on Sunday so I thought it'd be a good idea to get something close by."I nodded and said, "Makes sense." I thought I'd go up that afternoon and visit a friend there and then get a good night's sleep at the hotel," she said."I'm going up there tomorrow morning and. “Shit, I still can’t believe my father let me come,” a rather tall athletic girl, brunette with greenish-hazel eyes, gushed happily. “This is so freaking cool!”Kieran grinned at her. “Oh, I don’t know, Maddie,” he teased his old friend. “I’m pretty sure your mom played a part in it.”“Well, doesn’t matter who did it, what matters is that we’re here,” she bumped his arm with an excited smile. “You remembered to pack your costume, right?”“Obviously, duh,” he retorted. “You texted me a hundred. "You buy us some drinks?" Ellen joked.Allie leaned over and whispered, "I might lick your pussies on the pooltable!" Promises, promises," Jackie called after her. Allie grinned and wavedat them through the window on her way to the robbery scene.Their soup and hot sandwiches were cold so Ellen returned to the counterto have them boxed and wrapped to eat later. They made their way intothe parking lot and drove home.Later as Ellen warmed the takeout, Jackie made two glasses of iced tea.They sat at.