I decided to make the best of it though, and grabbed a beer before sitting in the first available seat I could find.“OMG, what are you doing here!�... said Emma, jumping onto the filthy couch.“I was kindof forced to come. A few guys I know dragged me here.”“And they left you alone? Ugh, you need to stop hanging out with those geeks.”“But, I’m a geek.”“Oh, please. You were never a geek. Now, shut up and follow me. All the cool people are in the basement.”She started dragging me with her, almost. Luckily there were few, this being Thursday. That being said, Cassandra and Amy did most of the work these days. When he had started the company he had pretty much lucked into a great business model that was quickly adopted as a business standard mostly because none of the major companies wanted to support a business standard proposed by one of their competitors. So their business lay in selling the intellectual property to the model and monitoring any implementation that took place worldwide.. "I hear those places are crazy." I said feeling a shiver down my spine."They can be but I won't let anything happen to you, trust me." she reached out and held my hand, "I won't let any of them touch you."I looked into her eyes and to my surprise I nodded. Her smile grew so big and I could see her wet tongue before she quickly licked her lips saying. "Great, Erica that's great. I'll text you all the info. I'm so happy your coming."That night she walked to the dorms to come get me. Campus was a. “We might not be able to sing, but we throw an okay party.”She grinned at me and kissed me lightly before settling down to think.“So where do we go from here?” she asked softly, not wanting to wake Mel just yet. “I mean, you’re my friends, my best friends. I don’t wanna mess that up.”“You want last night to be a one-time thing?” I asked her directly.She shook her head.“No, but I don’t wanna come between the two of you either,” she pointed out.“Well, when Mel got back, she started making jokes.