I held out my hand and said in a soft voice, "It's nice to meet you too. Yes, Karen is my Mom." "I didn't know Karen had a daughter." She stopped and ...ooked at me closely. I smiled at her and brushed my hair back with my left hand to show off my pierced ear. "I can see the family resemblance. She paused and turned to Beth. "Where's your brother?" "Oh, he didn't want to spend the day with three girls, so he stayed home to do whatever boys do." She shook her head as if to say 'boys are weird' and. One of the building’s engineers had come to the floor and was working his way through a heavy set of keys to open the office doors. In the seconds that I was standing there silently panicking, Debbie has squeezed herself back into her clothes and was shoving me out of the break room.MOVE ASSHOLE !! WE DON’T HAVE MUCH TIME !! GO TO THE REAR OF THE FLOOR ….NOW!!!Debbie’s sudden militaristic tone caught me by surprise and before I know it, I’m running fifteen feet across the office floor. "Oh. What did you do today?" Jenny was confused.Alex shrugged. "Just hung out with friends." He looked up from thebook. "Can I go to the park again tomorrow?" he asked.Jenny's eyes narrowed with suspicion. "Why?"Alex shrugged again. "I don't know. It's something to do. The divingcoach is going to be there for some private lessons, and she wanted tosee me diving again." And?" I just want to have some fun, you know, hanging with my friends."Jenny thought for a moment. This was _so_. Then Robbie released her and she bolted for the door and down the hall into her own room, just as her mother got to the top of the stairs. She stopped at the entrance to Robbie's room and noticed that he was sitting at his computer with a towel around his waist."Hi, Robbie," she said. "Everything okay?" Hi, Mom," he replied. "Yeah, fine. I've been working and I'm going to take a shower now," he told her, getting to his feet."I'm going to change myself," Ellen told her son, noticing that his.