He was so excited in his touchingly childlike way, so sure that his big break was staring him in the face, that I swallowed my well-founded reservatio...s and went with him. The room was too small, too dark, and too smoky, as such rooms tend to be, but I was glad of anything that would obscure my identity. I was mildly concerned about running into someone I knew (god, Christina what are you doing here?), but I was much more worried that Paul would seek out my face at some unguarded moment during. On those nights Sue did go home she made sure to be back in time for us to run the agility course and then shower, we did the ‘thing’, bonding, it pulled us a little closer each day, and our hair never felt better, it certainly shone, blonde and anthracite, both sparkling in the sunshine.My first time back in King’s kennel went much as Sharon predicted, his attitude was markedly different, of course he was still the alpha dog, but now he saw me as an alpha bitch, no longer did he try to. The kiss seemed to last forever, but when their lips finally partedhe was spent, she touched a finger to her lips, than his, shoved anote in his hand, waved goodbye and walked away...As she left the hall, robbie opened the note..."3 weeks from tonight, the royal suite at the Carlton, 11 at night,bring nothing but yourself... Andrea"3 weeks later...Finally, the big night had come, Robbie was nervous all day long, hewasn't sure what to expect, he sure hoped for a few things to happen,but didn't. Like at school. And then I got a backpack, but a real tiny one, that looks real cute, andis made of the same stuff as the messenger bag but is light teal androse. And a shoulder bag, that is pretty big, bigger than my white onethat no one but me likes, and its white and has about twenty hundreddifferent pockets, but it's not really huge just big. And we had lunchagain, and Ms Y kept asking me questions about what I like in school, andabout books, so it was back to more like a regular talk with.