Right purtiest woman in this corner of creation and she falls for the world's biggest bozo. Falls hard, too. Had to be the token, now, din't it?"That ...amn token. It was just an urban legend, right? A myth. A friggin fairy tale. So why did all the guys talk about it as if it were real? And, how otherwise to explain all those weird happenings? All those classy women with repulsive slugs for boyfriends?Down on his luck, Dave was. Since Marianne had dumped him a year or so back, he'd had a long and. " OK. She wants me to be your girl. Take me over there when your mom comes home with the car and you can wait for me while I go up to her door to get it." What are you going to do, Sara?" Show her how stupid she is. How childish. And I hope, convince her how much the two of you belong together." I thought you had a thing for me." A thing, huh? No, Jack. I don't have a thing for you. I like you a lot. You're a good friend. That's why I crawled over here when I was hurt. Because I can count on. Just having some lunch." I said as I bit into my sandwich and chewed, trying to appear as nonchalant as possible."Hey you know, some of the guys get together at my place every week for little card game. We've been looking for a fourth player and we were wondering if you'd be interested."Smiling I answered "I dunno Ed. Seems like you guys might be playing for some pretty high stakes over there." Come on Steve, it's a just a little 10 dollar buy in...but there is a very special prize for whoever. “Tell me about your father, Kal; you don’t speak of him much,” she said.Caught off guard by the sudden question Kal thought for a moment, “There really isn’t much I can tell you directly, he died when I was very young. Mother said that they met on one of her trips into town, soon they started arranging times when they could meet, quickly after that he began earnestly courting her. Gran was furious, she had spent so much time teaching mother etiquette and how to read, now she was seeing it all.