I stopped at the top of the stairs, expecting her to come up after me. When she didn’t appear, I walked down the hallway to my bedroom. I closed the...door to my bedroom behind me and walked to my dresser and pulled out some underwear, a pair of shorts and a t-shirt. I then walked to the bathroom. The bathroom separated my sister’s room and my room. The door to her room was open. I closed it, but not all the way. I turned the water to the shower on. I went and looked in the mirror. I saw old. Hell, if I have toface Her Highness over this, I want women pinching it too!"***"Can you help me? I need shoes."The weary-eyed sales clerk managed to raise an eyebrow, but I couldtell it was a struggle."I assumed so, since you're here, at The Shoe Depot." Yeah, okay ...good." This had not started well. There was nothing I hated more thanshopping, but if it got me a ticket to train under Chef Fiammetta, I'dsoldier through."I need some black pumps." Sure," she said, leading me to the shoe. Four lines scrolled up, showing all the services associated with the current user. She looked at the name of one, SEC2, then typed DSVD(SEC2) to give her details of that specific service. The second line read ‘LONG ANNOTATION’ followed by a short gap and ‘IDMS DATABASE SERVICE’.Good, now, was it running? Hmm. Old and long disused memories began to flood back. She wasn’t sure whether this was correct, but typed DSVD(SEC2,, F) the screen scrolled rapidly up, then paused. She quickly spotted what. “Yeah, THAT’S gonna work.”“If you’re gonna be mean to me, Brindy, I’m going back into my office.”“It’s probably safer there,” Dave laughed.I returned to my office. The thought crosses my mind – me and Haley and Deena doing the same thing that Dave’s going to do with Carlita and Brindy. Yeah, we could. It’d be fun, it’d definitely be educational as far as their engineering careers, but we have obstacles that Dave doesn’t have. Neither of my girls is eighteen – therefore proscribed from actual.