"I'm so sorry I never do this but I'd hate myself if I didn't ask you. Is there any chance you'd like to get a drink with me sometime?"I blushed at hi... invitation, blood rushing to my head and making me feel faint and stupid. "Umm, ok," I replied sounding like a bimbo. I gave him my number and asked him to text me later as I waltzed away and finished shopping. I was giddy on the drive home, reflecting on the experience of being chatted up by a cute young guy.A hundred questions ran through my. I could tell from her voice that she was a couple over the line already. I asked her how she would know when it was two minutes. She said “you can time it if you want to”. He turned from the bar and looked at me as if I might be a challenger to his “get”. I stepped aside and made the hand gesture which conveyed “she’s all yours”. After she drank the shot he led her to the alley on the side of the bar, pressed her against the wall and they locked mouths. His right hand went back under her skirt. ---"Hurry, Megan!" Ethan called. "It's about to start!" I'm coming!" I yelled back and stood up from the table where I wascleaning up one of the games and walked over to where he was perched on theedge of the couch. I stood next to him and watched as the big ball in TimesSquare started to drop."10," everyone around the room echoed what was being said on TV.I knew that I would always look back fondly on this year. I knew that ithad been a vital turning point in my life."9," the countdown. Why, even to discard a redirected junk mailenvelope, they probably charged a hundred pounds."Do you forward everything to the solicitors?" I asked. "Even thisjunk." We're not allowed to exercise discretion," Eric said. "Everything mustgo to them." "But what about," I asked, inspiration suddenly hitting me, "mailaddressed to the other Stephanie Stewart. The one spelt S-T-E-W-A-R-T?"He physically jumped. "Don't know nothing about another Stewart," hesaid. He was shaking like a leaf."I think you.