.?”“Cassie? Yeah, what do you want to know about her?”“Did you have the hots for her?”I chuckled. “Yeah, I did, but not at the time she wa...s babysitting us; I hadn’t learned about girls back then. She’s five or six years older than me, which means I was about twelve or thirteen when she went off to college and didn’t ever sit for us again. Then, about two years after, Mom asked me to take something over to Jessica, and Cassie answered the door in underwear and an open shirt...”I can remember. “What?” I asked, returning the stare.Jade didn’t reply.“Is there something on my face? Have a got a hair between my teeth, although if I have, I am not sure where it came from seen as you don’t have any.”Jade laughed, “Chris, I have been thinking.”“Whew, I wondered what that noise was, thought we might have ghosts or possibly rats.”“Will you just shut up for a minute, I am trying to be serious,” Jade paused as she seemed to be trying to find the right words.Just for a moment, there was fear in. I was pleased to see some sparkle coming back into her eyes; she hadn't been her usual self at all.We then chatted generally about what needed doing around the flat before term started; we agreed on a major shopping trip for food the next morning, with all hands on deck to carry the goods back home.It was much cheaper to buy things like rice in bulk from the Asian supermarket, and with four of us to eat it, it was worth buying a seven-pound bag of staple ingredients at a time. The catering size. The parking lot we stood in was in a state of total disrepair. The asphalt was cracked everywhere we looked and the place was virtually riddled with pot-holes, and the lines they used to delineate parking spaces, if there had ever been any, had long since faded into oblivion. Despite the abysmal look of the parking lot, however, the building itself seemed to be in fairly good shape, aside from some discoloration on the walls from long-term exposure to the elements. The overall impression that I.