" "I'm going to a party," she said, then paused and looked at me. It took her a second to understand the double meaning of what I said, then she smile...d. Yeah, she got it. "It's at a friends house. You know, barbecue, swimming." "Sounds like fun," I said. "Better than my day today, though it sure got better in the last couple of minutes." She smiled again, then I heard her side of the gas pump go 'ding', telling her she was done. "Finally." She put the nozzle away and gave me a good-bye smile.. “I think it is serious. I’ve never felt this way. I’ve had crushes before, but this is so different, so unexpected. I just want to be with him ... to feel his arms around me and to have him look at me.”“Oh?”Cassandra shook her head, and with just a hint of a smile, said, “That didn’t come out right. It’s just that when he looks at me I want to be a better person ... to be the person he sees.”Pamela nodded. “It’s different when you meet a man instead of a boy pretending to be a man.”It was. The stalls were empty so James had his pick of which fitting stall he wanted. He walked around the corner to the back most stall. James took off his sneakers and then unbuttoned the jeans he had on. He pulled them off and then tried on the first pair of jeans. They fit well and he liked how they looked. Good, one for the buy pile he thought. He made it through two more pairs and then heard that someone was outside the changing stall. He looked down and could see the shoes of the person standing. "I'd love to. Dinner with my favorite daddy." OK, that onemade me retch a little."Dan going to join us?"Uh, no. "Let's just make it father-daughter night. Where's the CPE?" The Hyatt in Grand Central." How about Pescatore? I'll meet you in the lobby and we'll walk over.6:30?" Great. I can't wait." Me too." I hung up and felt a little better. I always liked havingtime alone, just me and him. This was the first time I'd being do it asJess.We met at the hotel. I was wearing a green knit.