"Why?" Shelly asked. "What did we do wrong?" Us, nothing," Adam told them. "Look, Dazzle is a bottom-line company. They have no fall-back if this tank... and it's far from a sure thing. Our market sample is too small to give a true indication. For all we know, the people who bought Allie's video and who downloaded Sarah's trailer are all that's out there. We have no real data to present to prove otherwise. All we have is allegorical: we don't want to work this way so no one else will either. I. "Kari," I replied."So what do we have to protect her from?" Michelle asked."Evil influences," I said spookily. The girls laughed, and I said, "Seriously, just make sure that she's treated fairly and not taken advantage of. Sometimes she has a hard time realizing when people are taking advantage of her." You know that she's sitting right across from you, right?" Gloria observed."That's OK," Suzy said. "Jake is just protecting me." Are you OK with what Jake said?" Gloria asked Suzy."I'm OK with. "Really?" She replied. "Ya lol.When ?" I was pinching myself trying to make sure this wasn't some twisted dream that i would wake up disappointed from . "Tomorrow after school?" "Perfect!" And it really was perfect, I couldn't believe it. We spent the rest of the conversation talking about where we were gonna fuck and what was gonna happen. We also went over her "Do's and Dont's" so that I didn't mess this up befor it began. I spent all day at school walking around thinking about what the. It had to be.My body trembled as I slipped the dress off its padded hanger. I held itup against my skin, staring at myself in the mirror. I knew there was noturning back from here. I turned away from the mirror and slowly, gently,unzipped the back down to the waist and held the dress out in front ofme. I was unsure of whether to step into it and pull it up, like a pairof pants, or to pull it down over my head like a shirt. I didn't want todo anything wrong, for fear that it wouldn't work. I.