“We’re meeting with John Friday afternoon to go over budget numbers. While someone who usually takes one or two of us out is otherwise engaged.”...��He’s taking me out!” Beca said. She grinned. “Et cetera.” We all laughed because everyone in the pod knew exactly what et cetera was going to go on. Cindy blushed.“Did your director have any comments?” Desi asked her, redeeming the situation.“Um ... Mr. LeBlanc is not very effusive in his praise,” Cindy said. “But he said we did a good job and he was. I must have glanced up from the shelves loaded with mundane paperbacks for a moment. Because suddenly and quite unexpectedly, in the far distance, I caught sight of a figure that I thought I recognised. Not for the first time by the way, my eyes had often mistaken innocent females for the woman my unconscious mind was always looking for.I had actually run into her on a couple of occasions. But as luck would always have it, she had always been hanging on the arm of her current beau. I knew from. ’ She looked into his eyes, ‘I’m so sorry, Dan. This is all my fault. I should never have gone out with him. I should have been more clear with both of you.’ Dan shrugged, ‘No, I blame Jesse for setting you up with him in the first place. She must really hate me. Am I that bad?’ She looked into his soulful eyes and admitted, ‘Yes. I’m sorry, you are.’ At first he thought she was joking. Though she smiled as though she were, he could see it in her eyes. After all of the work he’d put in to get. " Molly said tonelessly."What?" Camden exclaimed and pushed against Molly's shoulder."He admitted it this morning over breakfast." Molly said, trying to keep a serious expression. Her friend Camden was blushing in open-mouthed shock."Hey," Jacob said and sat down next to Camden before she could fully compose herself. "Dad said he had to work late tonight so we're on our own for dinner." We can get off early near the store and pick up some pizza dough and stuff. Wanna come over and make pizzas.