Satisfied, she went to the stair landing and quickly put on her ripped and tattered tee shirt and tight, hip-hugging jeans. It was only then she reali...ed she had left her sandals behind... something she dismissed as being unimportant. No force in the world could get her back into that foul loft with those sex-crazed criminals.All of her instincts screamed at her to run down the stairs, but some rational voice in her mind made her tred lightly on each stair and to tred well off center. In spite. I could hear the TV on whichdidn’t surprise me. My twin sister, Britney, was stillup watching TV, sprawled out on one of the sofas injust a tank top and shorts. You know how us 16 yearolds are, if we weren’t going to listen to our parentsabout not going out, we weren’t going to go to bedwhen we’re supposed to either. I collapsed on theother sofa. Between the 2 sofas, they formed an L-shape along thewalls with a small table in the corner between them.Brit. I can do stuff like that!" Can we offer you suggestions, too?" Rick asked eagerly."Sure. I might not take them all, though," I told him."You should keep progressing in difficulty for daring things that you do," Jeff noted. "Not necessarily continuously, but more or less steadily. If you start to do something too hard, and can't go through with it, keep doing the moderate things." All right." I giggled nervously.It was cooling off outside, so we went in and played cards for a while. We played. The food smells great." I like this place. Everyone always does Italian food. I like Italian food, but I wanted to bring you someplace different. And this is one of my favourite places."Her eyes sparkled, "This is clichéd but, are you telling me, you don't bring all your first dates here?"He smirked, "No way, this is more like 5th date material. You should feel honored. Seriously, this is a place that I like. And I wanted to share it with you."How was that for direct? The Lucas from 7 months.