"OK but tell him it has to be no more than five minutes as I'm verybusy."A couple of minutes later, there was a knock on the office door andMandy got ...p to open it."Hello, I'm Manjit Kaur," she said using her professional name as sheshook hands with the tall handsome man standing in front of her, "I'msorry this will have to be very quick but how can I help?" Hello Mandy, you don't remember me do you? I'm David West fromschool."Mandy was slightly shocked that he'd addressed her as Mandy as. Ah... daughter." With genes like your mothers you shouldn't have any trouble finding theright guy Carol, you're a very pretty girl!"I was about to answer when John walked up. "Hi Aunt Doreen! Have you metCarol?" Just now as a matter of fact! I saw you two dancing out there, and youtwo looked like you're made for each other!" She paused, then said..."I'm having a get together Saturday, two weeks from now at the lakehouse. Maybe you and Carol would like to come?"Mom was about to answer when John. It felt like waking up in a very expensive hotel, not that I knew what that felt like for real. As I lay there recovering from my harrowing night, I listened to the birds sing and a dog somewhere barking a greeting to someone who responded with equally welcoming human greetings.It wasn’t until I heard the approaching car that I jumped from bed in my t-shirt and panties from the day before and ran to the window to stealthily peer out into the front expanse of the house’s estate.To the right of. He works with Alan," Tina said. "But I think he's going back to get his engineering degree with us in the fall." He doesn't have a college degree?" Ashley asked. Then we had to go through that whole thing about Jason's degree."So are you inviting me to to the wedding?" You betcha," I told her. "But it's not gonna be one of those 'big deal, princess for a day, Dad's in debt up to his ears' things."That was a whole other conversation. It was still going on when the bell rang for home room. That.