I had shot up in height last year and was getting close to my present height of 6 feet, but I was still rather gangly at 145 pounds. I guess I wasnt b...d looking but I was no Clark Gamble either. I looked behind me in line to make sure Carol hadnt been smiling at someone else. Nope, just the Millers, Betsy and Elmer and their five-year-old daughter were all I saw. She must have been smiling at me. I watched Carol and her friends take their plates over to a table under the big tree. They sat down. We used our codeword "date night" to indicate a new sexual experience. It was your turn to choose, to plan, to decide what this experience would be. I had no clue what you had in mind, but I could already feel it was going to be a wild night.The house was empty when I arrived, your car missing from the driveway. I half expected to find you hiding somewhere, but I knew that that would be too simple. I made my way to our bedroom to find that you had left a note on the bed, attached to a big brown. I frowned as I heard Elizabeth come into the room. Her face was set in confusion and I could tell the blood had drained from it.I wished there had been a better way to prove my suspicions but it was obvious she had a blind spot toward certain people."Ben, what is this?" she asked."I think you know," I said as I held out my hand for the single photo. I figured she must be waiting for the second batch to print. Those would answer all her questions.She handed me the print and I looked at it. I. Why does she let herself get elbowed out of the way like that? There was nothing that Karen possessed that Rainey didn’t besides a bit of self-confidence and even that, Aidan realized, would make people see the beautiful person that he already did every time he looked at Rainey. He watched her twirl a glass of champagne in her hand and his brow knitted a little. She was only nineteen so she shouldn’t technically be drinking but, he sighed, feeling ten years older, it wasn’t like she was a.