" Thanks, mom." So how's your dissertation going?" I just finished the second draft," William answered as he ran a hand over the stack of paper that c...mprised the results of his work. It was a substantial body of work."That's good. You've been there for two months. It took your brother and sister longer than that to reach the same point," Ling commented."I'm going to take ten days off before tackling the third draft. Then I'll send it to my professor for his comments," William said. He knew. Even Dillon reacted to it, sharing grins with Lenore behind the Chief's back. Dillon confided that the Chief was giving him career advice during Dillon's visits to the Joy Redux.Lenore had spent every spare moment on the boat this week tying knots in a five-strand Belfast lanyard. The Chief told her that her three-foot-long lanyard would have over sixty feet of cord in it when done. He'd shown her some insanely complicated knots, Turks-heads and sinnets, and he'd tied a long strand of the. Everylayer of delicate tulle sparkled with a hint of silver glitter at itsedge and had been intricately sewn into a wavy ruffled tiered fashion,growing wider as it cascaded towards the floor. The only exception wastoward the left side of the middle layers, where the same tulle materialhad been turned, shaping a large blooming rose which only added to itsdelicate tantalizing princess allure.What he hadn't noticed before was that his grandmother had also sewn asmall replica of the tulle rose and. Before I knew it,guys were buying us drinks and asking us to dance. Now instead of justdancing with Lynn and her friends, I found myself dancing with a fewdifferent guys, and I really started to enjoy myself. One guy whoseemed like he had a few too many drinks even asked me to dance to aslow song. I could feel his hard on rub against my thigh and I had todo my best to hide mine. More than once I had to slip off to thebathroom and try tucking it away. I even practiced putting on.