Back at his condo, Craig met Lori while waiting for the elevator on the first floor. They were the only two people there.“Have you given any thought...to meeting Brea, my redheaded friend?”“I have to be honest with you. I would like to see what she looks like before I make any commitment to take her out. I don’t doubt what you say about her looks but I’d like to confirm it before I ask for a date. I don’t mean to sound chauvinistic but it just wouldn’t be fun for me to be going out with someone. .. like...like... he was about to take everything that made me ME away from me!"Now, his trembling was joined by sobs. "What kind of a person does thatto another human being?" An asshole, Willy," she squeezed him tighter."I swear to God, Angie, I am going to spend the rest of my life makingsure that I... that you... that Kat... that mom... that every other womanI know... never... never feels like I did last night."XXXWhen they woke in the mid-afternoon, after only a few hours of sleep, Alhad. I fought my way through the press of bodies heading back to class and waited for Tricia to appear. When I saw her, I went over, kissed her on the cheek and told her I had an emergency at home, but I’d be back to pick her up when school ended so we could go look at costumes and she could meet Emma.“You’ll like her,” I promised. “She’s as sweet as candy.” I gave her a hug and another quick kiss and then I walked back to the door to meet my idiot mother. I was not in a charitable mood at the. This was going to be fantastic as long as we could endure the time with my parents. They were great people except I was still their kid, and they were just as overinvolved, overprotective and meddlesome as they were when I was Brandon’s age, and they insisted we stay with them … in separate rooms. I would have the guest room and Rick would get the hide-away bed in the TV room. ‘We’ll only be there four days,’ Rick said. ‘And how long have we gone without sex since the day after Thanksgiving?’ I.