“Will your Mum let you go out tonight or are you grounded after one of these?” “Oh I don’t get grounded, just spanked.” “Hey then, I�...m going to dinner with some friends so if you want to come that would be great.” “Really?” Daniel said, astonished but delighted to be asked. He hadn’t had a very good look at her but she seemed very nice. “Well sure, that would be great. Thanks.” Just then there was a knock on the door and Francis checked her watch. It was 15 minutes so it must be. ’ here pontificate all night!”“YOU voted for him!” I chuckled. “As did most people in this room! Well, not Abbie, because she doesn’t vote. And Veronica is like Pete - a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. But she’s from Chicago, so that’s no surprise! And Pete was a ‘Reagan Democrat’, though he voted for Dukakis over Bush.”“Anyone is better than Bush,” Veronica said. “Jesse would be better! Even as king!”“Yes! King Jesse!” he giggled.“God help us all if THAT ever happened!” Jennifer laughed. “Can you. "After I had done as she requested, we sat there for a few long seconds."I really loved that old guy," she said and smiled at me with watery eyes.I really couldn't believe that I was sitting next to such a beautiful girl; she was slim with a big bust, a 'C' or even a 'D' cup and great long legs encased in very tight jeans."You think I'm pretty?" she asked out of the blue."What?" I said, thinking she had caught me staring."Pretty, do you think I'm pretty?" she asked again."Sure," I nodded."He. I couldn’t let her near me ever again, “Anyway Susan, thank you for your confession.”She had to have the last word, “It wasn’t a confession. I just told you what I did.”I shrugged, “Well thanks anyway.”She got up first. I sat there and thought, ‘Maybe it wasn’t so bad? No, it was.’ I wondered, ‘How’d she get away with it without somebody telling me or me catching her?’ I guessed that was just another one of those imponderables like why the fuck do we have wisdom teeth or why is the sky blue?.