"Yes. They are your Dad's... and they will fit you well. If you want to go on a date with me you will have to look nice." A date... with you?" I asked...in surprise."Yes," she stated, "a date."I washed up fast, dressed in black slacks and a white shirt, brushed my hair and put on some of the aftershave I had got last Christmas. I hoped she liked it, Karen had given it me, and I had never used it before. I ran up the stairs.She held out the tie for me. I looked at it. "Fuck, how you put this on?". My older brother is a legend at my school for dating the best looking girls. He would bring them home, and I would talk to them while he went off and did whatever. If you don't believe me, ask your uncle to tell you about the time I met Ashley Judd." Okay, my uncle isn't going to be here tonight. Give me your phone. I'm definitely calling bullshit now."I handed her my phone, and she called her uncle."Hey it's Jennie..." I couldn't hear what he was saying. "I am sitting here with David Dawson.. Tiffany smiled, if you only knew she thought.It was almost midnight when Tiffany arrived home. It was too late tocall Brenda now and what she would tell her could wait until the nextday.Brenda was waiting for Tiffany to arrive. She wondered why she hadn'tphoned her the night before.Tiffany came in a half of an hour late."You didn't call me last night," Brenda said."I didn't get home until almost midnight and what I found out wasn'tthat important and since it was so late I figured it could wait.. Especially after the 4th of July dance. You see the thing is… aw hell! You’ll figure it out.’ There was a pregnant pause I felt should be filled with something, what I didn’t know. Just as I was about to try, he started again. ‘How are The Talks?’ ‘Not as terrible as I imagine if they were with your mom!’ I joked. ‘Yeah. Those were some trying times for both of us. I don’t know how she got me to open up so much, but she did. And it did me a world of good! I used to be like you Tom, I could be.