Wednesday, the same day that we found out about Carmen—Oh god, that’s why she didn’t answer the phone! And she didn’t have a cold when I calle...... I squeezed her tight. Wednesday ... What a terrifying day... “Holy shit, Heather ... I—I can’t believe this! And you’ve been worrying about this the whole time we’ve been here? Why didn’t you tell me?”Heather took a moment to reply, as she was overwhelmed. “Because I wasn’t sure. Like you said, I thought maybe it was wrong, a mistake. I couldn’t say. " I can't go back there," she said dolefully. "Take me back to thebridge."It was the demand that made him bristle. She could see it and cowered asif expecting blows. But Iggy Harper was in a strange mood that day."You can stay here and be a girl," he said. "Just tell nobody that youare anything less than a real girl, OK?" Be your girl?" she asked. It was not intended to sound like a proposal.She was trying to understand what was going on.She seemed so young that he stopped himself. It was. I said sure why not. After we closed a bunch of us from work and friends were hanging around in the parking lot ( not much to do here unless you are 21) . They were going out to a party I asked Vicky did she want to go and she said she needed to get home because she had a class in the morning. We left a few minutes later and I took Vicky home. We sat at her house and I talked to her and her Mom. Vickies dad worked night's so he was not there on most week night's. We made plans to go out that. She’s going to pay me five million for each of Lija’s and Saylor’s babies. Then another five million for each of Michelle’s babies. That’s besides what she wants to pay me for making her pregnant.”“Derek, I never thought I’d be telling you this, but you are so right for wanting to stay here among your women. You’re going to be a multi-millionaire before your freshman year is over! A college education would merely be an afterthought, since you’ll be a teenage millionaire! You’ll want to be near.