"Ryan gave her a dark look as Lara giggled."Look, Ryan." Lara vacuumed up the last of the chip crumbs and put the vacuum back. "It's okay if you like ...im, you know that, right?" I do like him." You know what I mean." Yeah, yeah. I know. I like him fine. We're not dating, I told you." Yeah, yeah, I know." Lara grinned as she threw Ryan's words back at her. "I still don't understand the problem there." I told you." Ryan stretched and sat back down on the couch. "I don't want to compete with. I took the box and opened it gingerly,only to see a stack of bangle bracelets, every color of the rainbow. AsMummy said "See, every color! Now you'll be able to wear them every daywith any outfit!" I could tell these were now to be part of my uniform .A rather loud part, as well. Not quite the bell of a cat, but awfullyclose...The other presents turned out to be...a Justin Bieber T-shirt in green, asigned Justin Bieber photograph, a Justin Beiber backstage pass, asparkly silver dress,a. Once we'd gone through those doors, we could talk a bit more and could feel fresh air wafting over us. It was kind of a relief after the stifling air inside.I could feel Susan moving to the music as she followed me and so I took her straight out to the dance floor.When I stopped walking and turned toward her, my body already starting to gyrate in time with the beat, Susan walked right up to me, pressing her breasts against my chest and leaned forward to press her mouth to my ear."This is. I held it out to Arianna as I looked at Telemon. ‘Apparently, Julius has decided to help me make up my mind about my apprentice. He asked for a ‘favor’ from me. He wants me to take this Michelle Pena as my apprentice.’ I reached up and rubbed my face lightly. Telemon laughed quietly. ‘I had a feeling that is what he wanted when the letter arrived. He cannot officially ‘make’ you take her as your apprentice. But he can ask you to do it as a favor to him. That is not against our traditions.’ I.