"Somebody should," I said and laughed maniacally. Which earned some strange looks from people in the hall. "Do you know what day this is?" Uh, Wednesd...y," Tami ventured."Exactly."The girls looked at each other, then me. "Is there more to it than that?" Tami asked."We are halfway through the first week of our second nine weeks. We need to celebrate." It was obvious," Robbie said, nodding to Tami.The girls closed their lockers, and we started up the hall toward lunch. Mike Rose came up, and I. She chatted easily and drew him out quickly. She found him pleasant company too and they both rather disregarded their neighbours as their conversation ranged widely. Tom discovered that her father was the senior partner of a firm of solicitors and that he and her mother were old friends of the Nugents. She and Clive had met at a party thrown by them.On Clive's left was a not unattractive woman but after a few banalities with her he turned his full attention to Briony."You've got a lot of. He lifted his feet so she could get the pantyhose up hislegs. Then it was a nylon slip followed by the pink skirt and whiteblouse she had worn the other night. "Very seductive," she said. He felt stupid and completely embarrassed. Alice tried a pair of her shoes on him but they wouldn't fit.Johanna said not to worry that they would get some. Alice thenapplied a thick coat of lipstick to his lips. When Alice started to get outfits out of her closet for him hethought she was going to empty it.. You would never guess her response.’ ‘No, what was it?’ said Maria. ‘She, Diane asked, is his mothers name Ellie?’ ‘Well I told her, I hadn’t a clue what her name is, then with hardly a seconds thought Diane asked Is the top part of his right little finger missing? Well, I said, I had noticed that, and Diane said, ‘in that case you had better skip the committee meeting.’ As you can imagine, I asked her why she was so adamant.’ Joe grinned, ‘I think I know the answer, is the Diane you are.