It's way over what youshould weigh and unhealthy. I'll design a new heathier diet. You'llalso begin an exercise routine as well," Rachel stated maki...g a notationin a small notebook."I'm going to teach you a new hygiene routine," she said sweeping herhand over the numerous feminine bathing and hair care products on thecounter.They were in the bathroom for two hours with Nathan blushing the entiretime as Rachel taught him. At one point, she jabbed a knuckle into hisribs bringing pained tears. .the Titanic fans will just die over you, my beauty. I wonder who will be my lucky customer." Satisfied, the old man put the maniquen center in his store window and went back to work.* * * * * * * * * *Joe Baker and his four friends awaited the ruling that would decide their fates. As Freshman initiates in the most prestigeous and famous frat on campus, no one had to tell them how important this day was in their young lives. "You see, young ones. Phi Beta Alpha is not just any fraternity. Were. She still knew little if anything about Justin, the story of his life a sketchy incomplete drawing, a puzzle with half the pieces still missing so that the ultimate image was not all there. He had told her little bits of things, as if to satisfy her craving for knowledge about the person he had been before they had met each other.She knew he worked part-time at an art gallery, that he occasionally dabbled with paints. But he gave no indication of knowing what he wanted from his life, or any. He had spent the night drinking at Murphy's Pub, and cringed at the sound of the "last-call" bell, both from disappointment, and from the tinny resonance which traveled down his spine like fingernails on a chalkboard. Upon returning home, he hoped that the passed time would somehow make her miraculously appear in their bed. Instead, he found the emptiness he was trying to escape.Falling down on the living room floor while removing his shoes, he lay weeping -- drunken tears of self-pity, unable.