Next day he asked again and for some reason I said ok but it would cost you! I needed a new dress and shoes he agreed so he suggested we go shopping b...efore we went back. I tried on numerous dresses and settled on a red strapless dress the type you didn’t need to wear a bra the inside padding was sufficient. It was just above the knee with a split up on side and to finish it off a pair of strappy heels.The weekend of the party I arrived at his place and he had booked a hotel close to the venue. As he knew he’d made the instructions quite clear earlier when he’d awoken regarding guests and social engagements, mainly there were to be none, he went back to his book without a second thought. Less than a week before Scythe Arkenlight had stood in her tower, jotting a last few notes in her book when she became aware of time. Aware of in the sense that much had passed. It was easy for her to lose track of it, here in her tower, overlooking the small hamlet, whose name she’d forgotten now.. She went to the refrigerator, which was almost bare. What would they do for food, she wondered. Where could she get some? How could she get some? There was a jug in the refrigerator and she quickly ascertained that it had wine in it. She found a wine glass—there didn’t seem to be any dearth of wine glasses in the kitchen. Millie quite likely was her mother’s daughter. But Penny wouldn’t be catty about that at this moment. She couldn’t think of anything more that she wanted—no, needed—at this. Duke game on the television and as we watched, I noticed that Angela seemed to be pulling for Duke.I watched her more closely for the last couple of minutes of the first half and she did indeed seem to be pulling for Duke, tensing whenever State scored a basket and smiling when Duke scored a goal.Coming from a long line of State graduates, I had a problem with my girlfriend, as I had come to think of her, pulling against my family's team. Then the evil side of my personality reminded me that I.