"Trouble?" Well," she said, "not really. But I don't know how to ask this." Ask what?" It's a new school, Alan. And I'm making friends. And they want ...o get together Friday evening. They ASKED me if I'd come with them."This was a day I knew would come. At this point, for all intents and purposes, she was like a daughter. And I was a dad whose teen daughter wanted to go out. She was seventeen, and when it came right down to it, I had only the most tenuous of holds on her. "So what 's the plan?". "A little darling, isn't she? How old did you say she was?" Twelve," Andie answered. "Kelly's twelve, but--uh, I was taking somepictures--and, um, you know? They always get shmall older kids to playyounger ones, like in commercials?" Kelly's an actress? Model?" he guessed. The kid certainly had thelooks. Delicate features, a saucy smile and a precocious attitudeseemed evident in most of the photos."Uh, no, no. Not yet, anyway. Just..." Andie shrugged.Bartolo's eyes drifted to Andie's chest then. They give her a very mature and feminine look, a kind look serious enough to deal with just about anything, yet warm to those she has real feelings for."So Ray, is Joane going to be back soon?" Probably in a few hours, she does not have her beauty school class tonight so I don't know what she's up to." What happened to the real estate course?" How about the commercial cooking course and poodle trimming and manicures course that came after the real estate? Now it is a beauty and cosmetology. They are free to do as they wish, but if I call them in to do me a service, they must be here. I have only two servents working here, besides you. One is Jhah Areen; she is a Human from Tatooine. The other is Kono Lona; she is a Jawa from this planet. They work in the Census Offices, doing what they were trained to do. You are the only one that actually lives with me, training under me personally." "So, I am your favorite?" You ask. "You are my favorite, the only one who is to have my.