The wild weekend was occupying my mind. It was late in the daywhen Junior came in. That is what we called the CEO's son, behind hisback of course. He ...ad just graduated with a MBA and his Dad tried to puthim on the board of directors and make him CFO. Well the board delayed itfor six months for him to get experience and made him VP of our divisionin the interim at a salary that was absurdly high with a sign on bonus ofcompany stock on top of that. After the six months he did move up. “Movies with you,” I smiled. She smiled too.“Um, OK,” Kia worried as Zoë caught up to us.“You make sure you’re good enough for Dean,” Zoë warned Kia, “Or there’ll be hell to pay.”“I’m--Shut up, Zoë,” Kia took her cue for me.“I never shut up!” And the bus arrived. Zoë ditched us to meet Xiomara at the back. I was dragged along as arm candy to half-listen to a conversation with Laurie until we got to school. I hardly contributed. I smiled. My job was to be pretty.“Hey, what do you girls do in the. ”“Good. Sleep well, Kara!”“You too,” she said.I hung up. Kara was in really, really bad shape. I hoped that Doctor Mercer could at least get her back to functioning again. I wondered how she managed work in the state she was in. I’d have to ask Nancy when I called on Wednesday to check and make sure she’d gone to the appointment.I decided to call Bethany because I hadn’t talked to her in a while. She was doing OK and when she asked how I was doing I sighed and described what had happened with. I dunno, it's really weird to say that those two idiots yesterday had a point, but they did. As everybody else reminded me by making the same point. I should... I might as well just, you know, whip it out more often. Say hello to Mr. Happy and all that. Even if it makes me uncomfortable." Yeah, but, why does it make you uncomfortable," Sajel asked me. "I mean, if there's some, I dunno, maybe your, uh, pistol only has a limited amount of shots in it or something. It'd be wise to..."I laughed..