Thats all” she left me there, and the crowd was lessening, so nobody saw the things happened between us.My pride was hurt. I am a guy who is well kn...wn among my friends for my instant jokes, good behavior and caring attitude. But she spoke against it and it hurt me.I saw her entering the home, and saying goodbye to Tanvi and returning to her Jaguar. It was parked in one corner where there weren’t anybody. I ran towards it and held her from the back and crossed my hands over her mouth to stop. "Tiffany's rescue worked out with a couple of small setbacks. Ok. That I can deal with. I'm here, I'm better, but I'll probably be needing a cane for a month."I'm sorry, but you should be saying forever." Speaking of time, how long have I been out?" Since late Wednesday night."That would explain why I am so rested.But did he not just say I'll be needing this cane for the rest of my life?I was not happy with that. Then again it would be expecting too much of the universe to have escaped all that. Clarice was waiting for us when we got there and I made the introductions. Doc looked around the studio and admired the lighting I put in. I had a dozen full-spectrum LED lamps that lit the space brightly, but indirectly. The studio didn’t really have any windows for natural light, so this was the best I could do. Doc was impressed, but suggested that I might want to change the wall color to Munsell gray so that I didn’t get as much reflected distortions. I put that on the list to talk to. " she slurred.Jade rolled her eyes, and took off to the room she and Cat were sharing. With her aunt here, fooling around might be kinda difficult.‘There goes my night,’ she thought. * * *"SPENCER!" Carly shouted, "ARE YOU OK?!" Think so… this table is not as soft as I thought it would be."The girls reached the bottom of the stairs and leapt to pick Spencer, who was clearly at least ten sheets to the wind, up off the ground, and off of the splintered wood of the coffee table."Spencer…" Carly.