"We had a night together shortly after I was assigned to her squad. It was a one-nighter that neither one of us regrets, but neither one of us wants t... happen again, if that makes any sense." I admitted. No secrets."Ok. I knew I wasn't imagining the way she was looking at you." Hanelor laughed."She gets nostalgic sometimes when she drinks. Especially since Halas was one of the fallen we were toasting." I shrugged."Hmmm. She has a thing for guys with pointy ears, doesn't she?" Hanelor raised her. We'll keep in touch." I remembered he was off tomorrow and by theway it sounds is gonna spend the day as Jenny.He turned and started dragging two pink suitcases to the guest bathroom,each one holding Jenny's items, and put his hand up in the air to saygoodbye. I turned and walked out without saying a word. It was twelveminutes total for me to take a shower, I timed it. I toweled off andthrew on a pair of old basketball shorts and a t-shirt. I hoped thatJenny wouldn't be too dressed up, I wanted. "You ok?"I wasn't sure how to answer that. "Y-yeah I'm fine. How are you?" You don't sound very excited to hear from me," Gary said curtly.I winced. "Um no don't say that. I'm so happy to hear from you my love. I have missed you but I'm kind of mad at you that you haven't called me! I've left you like a thousand messages."I heard Gary scoff. "I'm sorry gorgeous, but I've been so busy with school." Yes, I know this Gary but you can always make time to at least text me to say hi or something.". ” “Where?” Heather replied, thinking maybe she’d missed a step in their conversation. “The lake house,” Tracy clarified. “Are your parents going to be there?” Heather asked. Tracy shook her head. “They said there’re too many people on Lake Olkafor that weekend.” She took a sip of her drink. “That’s exactly why I want to go, though. Lots of drunk people—could be interesting.” Heather seemed to consider this for a moment. She nodded her head in agreement but otherwise didn’t respond. “I know how.