Jody just laughed, then he told me that he was going to fuck her that night after the party. That I had no hold on her and that she hadn't even mentio...ned my name all night. And finally that she'd already given him a yes when he'd asked if he could stay the night. I was crushed and tears began to stream down my face to add to the humiliation of it all.Then Jody said something that shocked me but at the same time excited me beyond belief. "Hey Michael, don't take it so hard. I knew you had a. I drove over to Kara’s house to pick her up, and when I rang the bell, her dad came to the door and invited me in. It really didn’t surprise me, given he was sizing me up as son-in-law material. I knew that from his perspective, the only reason to date someone was to decide if you were going to marry them and once you decided you weren’t, then you moved on, though that wasn’t supposed to happen. The usual result, in his mind, was dating leading directly to marriage. That thought made me wonder. "Hmm. We could each do one piece and then do the Serenade together."Emily nodded thoughtfully. "It would be a lot of extra work though." Not so much," Sandra countered. "We have juries anyway. We can each do something from that. Richard can play one of his fancy pieces..." Fancy?" ... and you could play the Hindemith you are working on, and I could do some songs, and then we play the Serenade." Sandra was clearly excited about the idea."But Richard will have to learn the accompaniments for us.. As she watched him read the letter and the smile spread across his face, she too knew that their efforts had not been a waste. It was only a couple of days later that Alex received a letter from Yale letting him know that he had been accepted there too. Though he did not intend to go to Yale, he put on a show for his father. He was finally able to show his excitement about attending college. His entire family thought that he was happy about getting accepted to Yale, and that was the impression.