What I hadn't expected was that Shelly and Gloria apparently had decided that the three of us were now a team. Stella put me to work entering invoices...into the computer and as soon as I sat down at the desk Shelly and Gloria came over to me."The plan worked" Shelly said. "Over dinner I told Marv that I wouldn't be driving the van to work any more and he asked me why. I told him the story we decided on and he gave me a ration of shit over letting other people using the van and after that nothing. .." If so," Leslie added, giving Mina a sympathetic look, "then it couldbe a self-fulfilling prophesy." I'm just glad I was single when this hit," Luke announced, gesturingdown at himself. "It was rough enough when a couple of my friendsfreaked out, so I can only imagine how someone I was dating would havereacted."I nodded as the conversation continued along these lines, with almosteveryone having something to share. Even I had something to add, andreluctantly said, "I have a friend...a. After the kiss, she just stared at him with a tender smile on her face.“What is it?”“I just can’t believe you’ve had this all planned out from the very beginning. Everything has come together so well that it is almost as if you could read the future.” “Humans are predictable, and the smarter you are, the easier it is to see the root causes of every action that they make. The Illuminati may be filled with some of the smartest people on Earth, but my record is not a mere novelty. Not even they. ’ She sighed dramatically. ‘Fine, you won. Come inside,’ she said, giggling as she pulled him down the boardwalk and into the house which was deserted. ‘What?’ he asked, panting as he started at the blue prints in front of him. ‘I’ve been meaning to redo the part of the house that you’re living in for months now, termites,’ she explained, ‘So this is what the new part is going to look like.’ ‘So where am I going to stay while this is happening?’ ‘In the spare bedroom upstairs, of course,’ she.