Mandy told me the closest Chi Chi's was located one mile west at the next traffic light to the north. I seemed to remember it was about a mile west of...the second light. But no matter, I'd find it."Are you sure?" I asked her with a smile."Yes, quite sure." She replied.She was a cute young gal and since she had already caught my attention, I offered her a deal. "I'll tell ya what I'll do. Come to dinner with me. If you're right, I'll buy. If I'm right, you buy."Either way, I had no intention of. I could not even imagine having anything to do with men, apart from work. When I finished work, I did some shopping for food, went home and locked myself in until the next morning. This is how I lived until the school year started.I studied hard. I put everything I could into studying wanting to succeed, no matter what, and I did. All my exams brought the highest possible grades and when lecturers asked questions, I was always the first to answer.One thing was bad, though. With studying and. Somehow, she had convinced him that she should sing more, because that's what she did, since she didn't play an instrument. And, if the song required any kind of anything other than balls-to-the-wall, the music suffered. I really did try to be objective about it.It's true, her repulsive personality didn't help; neither did the strain she was putting the band through. I still don't know what got into Greg. Greg was smart, sensitive, witty, sweet--this is why I had been carrying a torch for him. The girls couldn’t wait to meet you in person, I’ve told them so much about you. Of course it’s hard not to know about you now with some of the rumours going around about me owning an adult bitch puppy that will do anything for me. But let’s not do our introductions out here, I’ve made a booking at the diner upstairs, your shout.’I should have known meeting Tahlia for lunch here would never be as simple as it seemed. We settled into our reserved seats, the girls all talking around me, more or.