She sawme out of the corner of her eyes, and as we were both standing up in thehall she had this look on her face like she wanted to talk to me rightt...ere. She asked me how I was, what I was up to, I told her I wasworking at Hallmark and she just said, "Oh, okay," and then she switchedto a more personal question. She asked me, "Do you have a girlfriend?"and when I said, "No," she developed a smirk on her face and next askedme, "Do you have a boyfriend?" I said, "No."But the oddest part of her. I caught a quick glimpse of Vanessa jumping up from her stool, as I ran and knocked at the front door, hoping I might still be able to salvage the situation. When Vanessa opened the door she was wearing the towel around her waist. Above her pink bodice a rather large expanse of pale, freckled bosom was exposed, heaving deliciously in her current state of agitation. ‘It’s only me,’ I said, in the vain hope that, if I played it cool, she would think that the face in the window was a figment of. I could tell by the look in his eyes. "Well ok if you say so," I said in the most convinced sounding tone I could muster.When we got to my house we dropped our book bags and went straight upstairs to my room. I put the game disc in the Xbox and offered him to play first. "Nah I'm good. I'm just gonna watch for a while."Thirty minutes passed and still he didn't want to play. But I noticed that he was looking at me more than he was watching the game. I saw from the corner of my eye his jeans and. One more match for the league championship.After we got home, Addie told me she’d talked to Nicki about the wedding and Samuel’s plan. She seemed pleased, so I assumed it was good news, that, hopefully, she wasn’t losing Nicki.First, she said that Nicki and Samuel had decided on a date of December 30th. They had wanted to get married before Christmas, but there just wasn’t time. Besides, I think Nicki was thinking about Addie’s stores. She knew that all the stores would close for her wedding.