The conflict was there but the whole scene at the movie theater made it so much different. There was a giving in that happened there that made it nece...sary to simply follow his instructions. She also hoped that 38 wasn’t too old for him.The door bell rang quickly three times, as he said it would, exactly on the time that he had told her. One last look in the mirror for her, and the fervent hope in her mind that he would like the way she looked.‘She had dressed exactly the way he told her: three. "In the course of this short conversation I had gone from thinking thesports teacher was excellent boyfriend material to hopeless boyfriendmaterial.As they were lined up outside the school waiting to go in to theirclassrooms I noticed too that Amy and Rachel were getting a lot moreattention from the boys than they would normally do in the clothes Isent them to school in. Their makeup and French Maids' outfits meantthe boys couldn't take their eyes off them. My little girls had becomeobjects. I feel so bad over the way I treated you, please accept my apologies. I guess I'll understand if you don't call me for anymore dates. Goodbye Steve.I was glad she understood because I had no intention of asking her out again. She was more messed up after her divorce than I was. I thought about what Karen said, 'I have enough emotional problems of my own without taking on yours too.' Now I knew exactly what she was talking about.Once again, for the next month I threw myself into my work. It was. ” “We’ll ask em tomorrow, that’s a discussion I don’t wanna have tonight.” We drove the rest of the way in silence with me staring disapprovingly at the cards and Rita still with the little grin on her face, I guess Ashley didn’t break her mood. We finally got back to the house and walked in to dead silence, all lights off, and not a person in sight. Its was past eleven so we didn’t expect anyone to be up, but it was still weird walking into the house like that. We walked upstairs and almost.