At last, a familiar voice replied, "Alice? Is that you?"After Alice settled back against the wall, Miranda said, "Alice, I want you to meet Angela Mat...ke. She's a pharmacist." Nice to meet you," said a smooth alto voice. "Well, not that nice... But you know." A pharmacist? How did..." Some rather imposing fellows wanted me to fill a bunch of phony narcotic prescriptions. I refused."Alice interjected, "But I've never had anything to do with criminals. I'm only sixteen." Sixteen?!" the two. “I’ll thank you to call me Albert, Mom. Burt’s a kid’s nickname and I’m an adult now,” he announced over the cake and ice cream. “Albert.”Of course, Jannie Jamison didn’t ... call him Albert. She called him Burt when Mom and Dad were around and Butthole when they weren’t. Fourteen year old sisters are a pain and a curse. What was worse ... she knew the cute girls ... and ... she was turning into one of them.“Be nice to your sister, Burt. It’ll pay off when you start dating,” Dad had said.He. Standing in the utility room, she said, “Has Caroline told you about her new diet, Peter?”“No, to be honest, we haven’t had much time together recently,” I replied.“We’ve decided to do it together. I want to get down to a size eight and she’s aiming for a size ten. Isn’t that wonderful?”“I guess so…” I mumbled.She continued, “It’s a specially designed plan – mainly vegan I think you’ll appreciate it – you certainly need to lose weight, Peter!”I looked shocked. “What, you mean Caroline is. He was only 5’9” or 5’10” but who cares after a greeting like that. He escorted her to a corner booth where he already had a bottle of champagne on ice and two glasses. During the next hour, they laughed and told stories about their childhood. She learned that his name was Mike and could get lost listening to his stories in that sweet southern accent. He complimented her on her outfit and told her that she was the most gorgeous, sexy and tempting woman that he had ever seen. She felt as if she.