I sat in my car and watched Diane's door until seven the next morning and the guy still hadn't come out when I said, "Fuck it!" and went home.I discon...ected my phone and turned off my cell. I had no contact with Diane over the weekend and I did it for a reason. She had flaunted Freddy in front of her co-workers at that party so I was going to see to it that those same co-workers saw the last act. At work on Monday Diane called me on my extension twice and both times I told her I was too busy to. Do dinner and a movie sound OK to you or something else?”“That sounds great Rich. Where are we going?”“It’s a surprise, Caroline.”“Oh, you don’t know yet, do you? I know you better than you think, Richard Jefferson Michael O’Hara. Call me if you want to leave earlier than 7:30?”“No, it’s our first date. A gentleman doesn’t change the time of a date, especially when he wants to impress the girl.”“First date, huh? I’ll be ready for you promptly at 7:30, Rich. I expect you to treat me like a real. I wonder how he made it through the bidding process. He’s almost 20 % higher than Smithtown Homes and they’re the top home builder in Florida.”“Jess built his company from scratch. He’s worked 70 and 80 hour weeks for years. Now that he’s just turned 29, he’s beginning to back off on his hours.”“Maybe he should get out more,” replied Karen. “He was staring at me while I was speaking. He was quite obvious about it.”“He gets out quite a bit,” chuckled Stan. “You must have impressed him. He’s not. ”“I can attest to that,” Val said. “We could go to the state championship if he’d play for the team. Even Coach Titterman said that.”“No. He’d get thrown out of school, and we’d probably have to forfeit a game.”“Why?”“That’s not important, now. You want to know how we became friends and I’m telling you how.”“Go ahead.”“Well, the coaches spread the word that they’d like him to join the team. I figure that I’d confront him about not playing for the team. I figured that I’d push him around a.