.." MOTHER PLEASE DONT!!!" Well its true honey. And we both also know you'll flunk out of college in your first semester. College isn't for stupid gir...s like you."There was a moment of awkward silence as Mr West waited to hear Erin's self defense against mother's painful observations, but when there were none he finally continued."So Erin has just turned eighteen?" Yes she has, last Tuesday." Excellent. So has she any experience?"Mother looked down at her daughter with contempt. "I suppose that. I was so furious that I forgot what I rehearsed. I just wanted to scream until I could scream no more. Apparently the sky knew my pain because it was filled with dark clouds and randomly roared, signaling a thunderstorm was underway."Bianca! You okay? Wanna talk?" Crystal inquired as she opened her door wider, apparently inviting me in."No!" I growled. "I don't wanna talk to you. I don't wanna see you. I don't wanna do anything with you anymore. I just came over here to get my stuff. I want my. . that's it – summer is over'. The weather office had promised a scorcher of a week-end, however. Tom's thirteenth birthday was coming up and Bobbie had asked him, since at thirteen, he would "officially' become a 'teenager', whether he wanted anything special as a birthday party.Tom thought about it. "Yeah ... I know it's impossible since we don't have a pool but, rather than anything else, I would love to have a pool party with all my friends from camp."While Tom had 'more or less' kept. "It is to be delivered to Doctor Dunleevy personally," I told him."I still need to see it," the Guard Sergeant told me. I produced the letter and handed it to him. He carefully examined it and its stamped wax seal."It took three of you to deliver this?" he demanded next."We were coming this way, and Lady Feidhelm asked us to deliver it," I had just finished explaining to him when another man dressed in finer and more expensive clothing came up to the gate from inside"What is the problem,.