I get a hundred girls like you in here every month that want the break I can give them, and I can't justify giving it to you based purely on your sing...ng ability, I’m sorry. That's just the way it is."As you can see, I can be pretty blunt when I need to but the great thing is I can be, there's no come back on me. Wannabe's know that if you cross me then you can forget ever breaking into the film industry in this country bar striking lucky in one of those damned (no) talent shows. So what. I told the cross country coach I wasn't going to come out this year and spent my free time rock climbing or working on my modified grav pod project at the old DeWitt street labs. The pods themselves were pretty much where they needed to be. The next piece was to create the grav field generators for the actual flight suit, and for this effort, I borrowed heavily from the technology that was used in the current line of McKesson holographic Halloween costumes.Where the holographic costumes used. That got moregiggles from them and he joined in. "Would you believe me if I told youI was really a boy?"They laughed so hard the assistant manager glared at them. Sharonpinched her cheeks and made a strange face in order to stop grinning.Millie shook her head and coughed. "No, Kelly, no, I don't think anyonewould believe that you're a boy!"Kelly grinned and blushed. What's the use, he thought, I might as wellgo with it. It's Andie's money, I wouldn't feel right spending it onmyself, my boy. They were mainly lean, tall, and refined, their hair tending from Danishbrown to blond. The Mengstroms preferred period piece clothing, itseemed, mainly European, usually a hundred years old or more. Together,they were a historical melange with costumes from Versailles, the courtsof European capitals, and military uniforms from the nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries.They wore their costumes as if they lived in them, without self-consciousness. A few of the older women glided about in.