However, unlike most Jamaican tourists she’d encountered in person and in various Internet chat rooms she frequented, he was familiar with the rest ...f the country, as well as the lives and attitudes of the Jamaican people. * * * * * Attitude Change Denise and Will continued their daily chats. Slowly at first, then quickly and easily, they became acquaintances and then friends. By June, frequently at Will’s instigation but with a willing curiosity on Denise’s part, the topics of their chats. Stepping slowly into her living room, she looked down the hall. Again, all was quiet. As she got closer to the TV she saw that it was a single piece of paper, folded in half and taped to the screen. She saw her name written on the outside flap in elegant cursive. She flipped the note open pulling it from the screen."Wendy!!!! Happy Birthday!!! You better love this present!!! I worked really hard to get it here. You knew I was coming, right?? I love you!!! Me, your presents, and your. "That would depend now on what you heard, now wouldn't it?" she said, her voice growing husky.Roquan kept his cool gaze focused on Freya's eyes. "That you are given entirely too much leeway by the other Overlords." And perhaps they do so for a reason. Overlords are all about deal-making. I simply choose to exercise that. And I daresay they are often quite... satisfied with what I give them." And do you often approach such deals in this attire?"Freya gave him a wicked grin. "Not at all," she. “Thanks for that,” she said, “I reckon I could have made a mess of it.” It was then I noticed her face before she turned to lead the way through the crowd.“You look familiar. Didn’t you go to Eltham High?” I asked her.“Yeah, briefly,” she replied.We reached her spot where a mixed group were gathered. I recognised some of them: they had lived nearby me but had gone to private schools, their faces known from the assembly of kids at the local station where the caravan of charter buses to the.