In all this time, Abi was still naked and doing something with her nails."Don't we need to leave in ten minutes?" I asked her and she looked across at...me with an annoyed look."Don't start, Andy" she warned and returned to her nails. "For future reference, giving a girl less an hour to get ready for a party puts you in seriously dangerous territory." Doesn't take me an hour to get ready," I mused. "Can't you just, well, hurry up a bit?". Abi flung her hairbrush in my direction and threw me a. .Sorry," Bryony mumbles."He- umm, she's just teasing you, Bryony," dad says, bristling at theuse of the word 'she' to describe me."Yeah, I know," Bryony blatantly lies as we drive the short distance toour old primary school to pick up my two other sisters. Needless tosay, Bryony's already sour mood only worsens when Cassie and Dorothyclimb onto the back seat next to her, both of them buzzing with energy-and for one very good reason."It's ballet night tonight!" Cassie squeaks before even sitting. These girls didn't have boyfriends at least. Unfortunately, none of these girls interested me. I liked cute girls, pretty girls, but I wasn't getting any calls from those kinds of girls. I take that back, I did get a phone call from Lana Driscoll, Paula's younger sister. She was certainly cute enough to catch my interest, but I was still very upset with her sister, so I told her I wasn't interested in dating her. She didn't seem very upset when I told her that.After not hearing anything from. She asked where I lived and I told her “nearby” but didn’t specify my building a short distance away.I figured I didn’t have a lot of time with this young morsel so I quickly got the conversation on whether she had a boyfriend and she did, an “older” 17-year-old guy. She said they didn’t really “go out” because he dad wouldn’t let her actually date yet. That’s when I learned that she had just turned 14 and I nearly chickened out right then.But, hey, it was a late night on the beach with a very.