Just then the manager came back barking at the liftman. He abused him saying that he manually overloaded the system and stopped the lift somewhere. Th... manager was thinking that the liftman was either taking liquor in the lift itself. The liftman looked at me like he was caught red handed and swiftly closed the door. He moved to the 10th floor immediately. I think the manager didn’t saw Neetu coming out of lift that’s why he thought something else. But I figured it out myself, she climbed on. I let them take the pickup around to the suppliers we did business with around town. We didn’t get much work done, I didn’t care. I hadn’t seen or heard from my ex in a while. I hoped everything was ok. I checked the books and was surprised to find that even with the tuition and high household electric bills, extra insurance and so on I had been paying out for the privilege of supporting the girls and their friends, I now had more money in savings then ever. True, I was working harder,. Our parents are all best friends. My parents are Kevin's god parents, Kevin's parents are Ellie's, and hers are mine. Nobody has ever given us a real explanation how it happened. Dad joked it was because of a football strike, but the timing doesn't work. Kevin's mom just said something was in the stars. I think Ellie's mom came closest to the truth, saying we were the product of the aftermath of a really good dinner party. Anyway, enough talk about childhood. Ellie and I grew up nicely. Ellie's. He started to get hard and she noticed it. He stepped back and fell into the empty pool which was 8 feet deep. His vision went blurry as he faded away seeing Crystal by him. He woke up and noticed his head was throbbing. He groaned in pain and sat up. He looked around and noticed all the pink and girly things around him and saw the letters on the wall say CRYSTAL. He heard the door open and saw Crystal walk in with a robe on"hey sis" he said as he squinted his eyes in pain. "hey you okay"she.