Anyway, she and her mom went to stay with her grandmother—her mom’s mom—for Christmas. Somewhere in Wales, I think.” That was true as well. Sh... left the day after The Ball. “They got back the day before New Year’s Eve. The plan had been for Riss to see in the New Year with me at my house. I called her in the evening and she was... off. You know? Something wasn’t right between us. We weren’t supposed to meet up that night—it’d been a long journey and I knew she’d be tired—but she insisted. I. And as we sat down to a dinner of meatloaf and mashed potatoes, Rosie kept grinning and letting her carry on. Finally Mandy asked if she could skip the game on Thursday, and I told her no problem. She then grabbed the phone (which had a twenty foot cord) and took it into her room and tell Peggy the news.“Wow,” Rosie mused. “I haven’t heard one of my daughters this excited about somebody else since a certain somebody met a guy while skating, then again at a movie a few months later!”Linda has a. Hey, maybe she was into leaning against me!We rode up to the 23rd floor. As the other two girls started to leave the elevator, the one leaning against me said something to them in Chinese. The three of them talked back and forth a few times in Chinese. Then one of the other Chinese women looked at me and said, "Do you need glove?"Huh? Then, while I was wondering what she meant, the other reached into her purse and handed the girl leaning against me some small items wrapped in foil. I gasped. ” She tutted at me. I growled and vaulted the back of the couch landing down hard just as she managed to get her legs out from under the crush. She was pinned behind my butt.“You better get a shower before your double date.” She warned me. I had put on a grungy t-shirt but was still in pajamas. Zoë was the same but she had ditched the jersey and was just wearing a cotton candy blue tank-top underneath. She’d almost be at home in the box’s color scheme. I picked up my phone again.I texted.