I looked over at Allison, pleading for an explanation but she never returned my glare. Her eyes remained transfixed on Dolan. I knew she wasn’t happ..., her expression betrayed her, but what the fuck?She could’ve given me a heads up at the very least. As a result, I’m caught off guard with mouth agape, clueless as every other dickhead in this small town. That betrayal added deeply to my heartbreak and the sum total of it sent me into a complete tailspin.I spent the evening walking around in a. "That was close. I don't know what we could have said if she asked anything else about a picnic. Why did you say we had to talk about a picnic?"Mandy thought for a moment and shrugged her shoulders before saying, "I had to give some reason and that's the only thing that popped into my mind. We were lucky though. If she hadn't been distracted by Bill we could have had a problem." You've got that right. Mom would take that as lying," Beth retorted. She was quiet for a moment then sighed and said,. He told me I had just messed up a shot at a scholarship to college. I was beginning to understand why Coach had pushed me so hard at football. In the past year I had grown to 6 feet and packed on some more muscle. Diane appreciated this but it was difficult to have a conversation with her that didn’t involve me ordering her to do something sexual. My reputation as a brawler put me in a completely different category at school. The guys that pretended to be bad asses, didn’t want to have to prove. “Is that what she’s paying you to risk your life for?” I asked, stepping out the open door to the bedroom. “A yacht and a helicopter.”“‘Er Countessness already given me an island. Are you sayin’ a yacht an’ a helicopter ain’t enough for that?” Mander replied.I had to think on that one. Julie emerged from the bedroom and looked out the front window.“They’ve set up a podium with microphones.” She said.“They’re calling me out.” Helen replied. “They’ll camp on your lawn until I go talk to them, and.