There is more, but first I have a question for you. Those were the girls you ran with and I've always wondered about that. The old 'birds of a feather...flock together' thing."She blushed and looked away as she said, "Honestly Rob, how can you ask your mother a thing like that" and I had my answer. I wondered if my dad knew or suspected. She moved quickly to get me away from questions about her:"I still don't see how Dot and Beth kept you from getting married."The day after the night at the. “May I speak with Bart Edwards please?”“May I ask who is calling?”“I’m his sister.” She didn’t know whether or not Bart even had a sister. But she had to come up with something. And she didn’t want to take the chance that the pledge would blurt out any details like her name. Also, Malo could be in the room.Bart was relaxing on the couch in the living room between classes. The pledge approached him and told him that his sister was on the phone. He didn’t have a sister but had had numerous calls. Things started to change junior year. It started, actually, at Christmas break. Suddenly, back home, surrounded by the same people that had barely noticed me my whole life-I made friends. I ran into people I had gone to high school with, and somehow found myself holding up my end of the conversation. I even got invited to a New Year's Eve party. When there, I found myself in a heavy make-out session with Tina D'Alessandro, a cute girl two years younger than I, that I'd known a little bit but. "You have to remember that there are different expectations for eachgender. Both in our world and over here. You may not like it but for thetime being, you will have play along."Jessica nodded sighing again. She wasn't really enjoying her time in thisworld much. She feared that she might lose this bet. She took another sipof the wine."I'll tell you what," Brian said sitting back in his chair. "When we gethome you can have as much beer and steak as you want." Thanks, honey" Jessica replied.