Emily wanted -- in fact she started full time the day after graduation, a day she remembered as the day she really became a grownup; it was also the d...y she first met Eve McClellan, although she wouldn't know that for another ten years. With the exception of a week that Sharon gave her off for her honeymoon, which she and Kevin spent by riding his old Kawasaki crotch rocket up to Mackinaw Island, she worked straight through until the day Kayla was born the following spring. She took a few days. Sitting back at the table with the drinks the conversation seemed to flow easy between the three of us, I knew a little about them and like wise with me. It was Nick’s turn for the round and Jane excused herself for the toilet at the same time. I could see them talking and looking at me from just outside the door. Whatever was said Jane looked pleased when she came back to the table and sat next to me, pulling her dress up her leg as she stepped over the seat. The dress being pulled slightly. "What about the other two?" The other two are going together; I used to date Brad and when we stopped Sherry caught him. They seem to be happy with each other and that's a good thing. Sherry is one of my success stories, don't you know."I had to smile grimly at the change in her personality; the girl I had known was shy, less than confident, almost withdrawn with everyone but me. The new Stella was confident to the point of being cocky or even overbearingly conceited. I think I liked the old. I pulled my hand away and ran to the bus, my pens falling, not thinking Kyle had my notebook. I sat down to look in my bag for my notebook, and found it missing. The bus was pulling out as Zoe sat down."Look out the window," was all she said. I looked and saw Kyle holding my notebook. I sunk in my seat and my heart dropped."I'm dead! He is going to put it up where everyone can see it!" I wailed."You don't know that for sure." I do."I walked in the front door. "How was your day, Daxus?" Mom.