Of course, my tacked-on engagement announcement was an afterthought, and through no fault of Nathan’s, kind of complicated things and that awkwardly... But that was just too damn bad. I’d done it, made my unexpected, and that unexpected even by me, announcement to register my only slightly less than outright anger at Selena’s slighting of me when she greeted the other guy as her daddy and actually and actively and consciously, as I saw things, ignored me and my woman.We’d come in separate cars.. I felt her shock and despair.“Fuck it,” I said to myself, “a damsel in distress is a damsel in distress, even if she is a spoiled little Japanese princess.” Out loud I said: “I’m paying,” and handed over my card.“But on one condition I said.” They weren’t used to just saying shit straight out I guess, because they looked at me like I was a giant three-headed panda. “I want that plum-colored dress too.” Everyone started bowing and making relieved hissing noises. “And the gloves and. But after a time I realisrd that she had none of her own, even if she had some she, may be for some teason communicated them to me. And it was then I started losing my intetest in her as there was no love between us. But it was then, my fantasies were tickled by older women. Needless to say my own mother.Then the main plot started. I was doing my enginnering in pune, and after our final semester I came back home with a sense ofpossible adventure. But all of that was in my head, where, I thought. "What? Look, I may be the master of old slang," Heather said. "But someof the crap you two say..." Goonies," Kim said quietly into Heather's ear."Fuckin' movie geeks." Heather shook her head."It's just graduation," Bobbie said, shrugging. "Bella's going off toBrown, she'll be back... maybe. Skype, phones, it's not like the old dayswhen it really meant goodbye."Kim rubbed Heather's forearm assuringly."It's just... I dunno," she continued, brushing the hair from her face andtucking the long part.