." Ayeka sniffed."Meaning me and Kiyone." Tenchi interrupted again."Yes..." Ayeka countered pointedly."Will be escorted to the steps of the shrine whe...e you will begin..." Ayeka trailed off, sighing."Don't you have anyone else you could ask to be your second?" She asked tiredly after a moment."Like who?" Tenchi wanted to know. "Grandpa's not around and Dad's incapacitated somewhere in one of Washu's labs!" Perhaps ... one of your male friends?" Ayeka attempted, growing a tad desperate."Did you. “Swear to me that it’s just between us. No one else hears it from you,” I said seriously and waited for her to agree before I told her. “I told Charlotte that I wanted half the money and to never hear from anyone again. I’m trying to get into on-campus housing. That’ll solve the problem of emancipation to some extent. I’ll still see people at the school. It’ll be a little harder for me to travel, but I’ll make it work.”She sat and looked at me for a long time and frowned. “So she’s Charlotte. It was also rightpast Higgins house/office."Stop in on Higgins?" Jet inquired.Quartz was actually surprised; she had forgotten that the good doctor'shouse was literally on the way. As Jet turned the car in that direction,she nodded. "Might as well. We need to find out what the hell he said tofather." True that," was her sister's only reply, and then both of them were leftto their thoughts for the quarter hour that it would take for them to getto the doctors.They were both lost in reflection. Her face was more beautiful. Made up better I suppose. She was the most beautiful person on earth. My fantasies became more frequent and more perverted, if that be possible. I thought about her all of the time. One day I got the opportunityto work in her college town for a while. I jumped at it. Hell, I would have went at my expense. My fantasy could come true, I told myself. Her email was all but forgotten, just a bad dream.I went looking for her as soon as I got to her city. I was therethree.