He dad was going to be a bigger part of her life. I knew how that felt. It wasn't that long ago that my dad was too busy for me. At least I always kne... where to find him.Jan was still giving him the cold shoulder. I could tell that this was going to take time to thaw, if she ever did thaw. I wasn't overly worried. That was between Jim and her.When Jim and Cindy left to go back home, Jenny was both excited and depressed at the same time. I was glad that I didn't have school the next day since. James Tremaine. I hope to hell Hugo remembers. I walk out on the porch and wave as Irving gets out of the car.“Irving, what on Earth are you doing here?” I ask, making sure to smile broadly as I say it.“Well, I was in the neighborhood and thought I’d drop by,” he tells me smoothly. In the neighborhood? The office is five hundred miles away. His home is five hundred miles away.I guess he sees the surprise in my expression. “I’m vacating, Linda,” he says. “On vacation. Lawyers do take vacations,. Oh well, if Brenda could live with being mistaken for my girlfriend, I could.An hour later all my equipment was clean. It had been gone over to Brenda's satisfaction, and put away. Brenda cleaned up at the sink in the back of the garage."Come on, Boyfriend. Let's get that snack your mom promised us. I'm starved," Brenda said with a cute grin that caused her dimples to show up.In an odd way, it was mom's crack about her being my girlfriend that sort of got me to ask her out. We went to different. We all started to talk and continued drinking. We were already drunk.After two pegs, her friend left, saying there was some emergency. Kavya asked me whether I could book a cab for her to return to her PG if she stayed back when her friend left. I promised her I would.After some time, we started talking about what I did, and what my business was in Dubai. She said that she had always wanted to visit Dubai and explore it.I replied, “If you don’t mind, I can take you there.”She laughed and said,.