But I got a call from raj at the same time.RAJ: hey shivani. Don’t go to hostel. Come at the back side gate of the hostel. I am waiting for u there....Before I could say he cut the call. I was wondering how confident he became from last night that he started to order me. But I have already made my choice that this trip will be full of fun. And I could not waste any opportunity.I went directly at the place where he was waiting in a car. He opened the door and I sat in. I asked him for plan. And he. Kind of a shame though." That David really knows how to spoil a good thing." She was counting down silently in her head."He does. Of course," she could almost hear him summoning up his courage, "if we were to meet and then hate each other, that would be the ultimate repudiation." It would, wouldn't it?" Because then everything he did would have been for nothing." And he would realize once and for all that he doesn't know us as well as he thinks he does." "Right. Almost sounds like a plan,. Neither can Cathy. Not even if we went Dutch." I thought so."I looked at him."No. I wouldn't lend you the money and I know you wouldn't ask. You couldn't repay me, could you?"I shook my head. It was true."I could give you the money but both of you wouldn't accept, would you?" No." Life isn't simple, is it? I have got tickets for the dance. I'm taking my cousin Hannah. Neither of us wants to go, not because we don't like each other, we do, but that the dance isn't our sort of thing. We would. At first neither one of us mentioned it.BTW, about my friend Ed: I was not exactly sure of his name because sometimes he was ‘Fred’, not Ed. Well, I was Lori, not Roberta. And once in a while people would wave and say “Hey Bob, how ya dooin?”It is funny but back then a lot of us adopted what we called a ‘beach’ name. The reason being if you ran into someone at the market or in church (yeah right) and they called you by your beach name you knew where you knew them from. And, of course were.