It wasn’t my problem, but I still felt bad.One of the seventeen year old neighbor boys got a thirteen year old neighbor girl pregnant. He was legal,...but she wasn’t by a year. I had to do all kinds of contortions to keep the statutory rape charge at bay until both kids parents were willing to help them get married. The girl’s family had money and paid me my fees, which really didn’t cover the effort that I put into the case.I now had a legal secretary who had moved to the area. She was an. She hadn’t realised she’d spoken so loudly that, in the tight intimacy of the bar, people were beginning to stare. She giggled before lowering her voice and continuing. ‘Well you haven’t…’ ‘There are lots of things you don’t know about me, darling,’ Marilyn whispered breathily. The soft tone to her voice made Ella shiver. So did the way the blonde nonchalantly shrugged her shoulders as if appearing in porn was the most normal thing in the world. Marilyn never failed to surprise her, but she. This had been an ungodly disaster the first time around. Mom denied any hint of a problem, even denying he was seeing a psychiatrist, when we all knew he was visiting one. Dad and I had a long talk one day, when he asked me why I had gone to college. He had been heartbroken when I told him, quite bluntly, ‘Because you told me I was going to college!” When he asked if that was the only reason, I turned it back on him and asked if I had had any kind of choice. For the first time I think he. I've wanted to have a boyfriend, but I just don't seem to have the time. And besides, guys only want one thing from a girl and I don't want to have my plans messed up by some "accident" if you know what I mean."Rory knew what she meant. But being sensitive about what had happened to her mother she wondered if Paris was referring to her mother's mess-up almost 17 years ago? Her old anxiety flared up suddenly, almost like a tearing animal deep in her guts. She felt light headed and a little sick.