I had no idea if he was there or not. It was Saturday morning, and it was possible he was out. I took out my cell phone and dialed his room.After a fe... seconds it connected, and I could hear the ringing through the door. Then Eric picked it up. "Hello?" Eric? It's me." Amber! What's up?" You busy?" No, not really." Open your door."There was a pause of a few seconds, and then he did. I snapped the phone shut and gave him a smile. "Hi." H-hi. This is a surprise."He was wearing jeans and a. So I went ahead and got the room ready. Ben"s mom was going to get dropped off by a cab and wanted me to be ready to get her bags. Ben yelled out to me, "get the camara, mom loves to take pictures" Me, mumbling under my breath, gotta waste my film on this old bag....Grrrrrrr She'll be here any moment. I was in my room fumbling around for the camera when the doorbell rang. I heard mom and Ben greeting Agnes at the door, Mom yelled out "Grandma Agnes is here!" by that time she was already halfway. They didn't need a bra, these were a cosmetic surgeons swan song, only they were natural, full c-cups. Black snake skin pumps finished the bottom, a long string of pearls, that was supposed to be worn as a double, hung down far, drawing the eyes where I wanted them, and matching earings did the top. I had french braided my hair in to a long pony tail."Do some homework, I'll order dinner." I told him."Eating alone again?" he asked."He hasen't called, but I assume so." I said, and he accepted it. Mother didn’t know her birthday, so we’d made it coincident with Launch Day. Since the habitat’s factotums and the larger Makers hidden beneath the surface of the asteroid could create almost anything with the right instructions, we’d come to an early consensus that only personal pledges and things we made by ourselves truly counted as gifts. Zuri had written a symphony to accompany tonight’s performance; I’d crafted a small sculpture of one of the scimitar oryx that lived near the ship’s.