"I hear Robby has a girlfriend. He's never mentioned her to me. Who is she?"Megan looked up from her bowl, her mouth full of Chocolate Krispies. Betwe...en spoonfuls she said "What girlfriend? He doesn't have a girl friend."Valerie was stumped. 'Surely your brother has a girlfriend. I mean LOOK at him."She blushed as Megan's eyes got a little wider. "I mean... well... you saw him. He's handsome isn't he?"Megan's eyes got wary. This had to be a trick question. "I guess some girls might think so". I got out of the lakesopping wet. The plants there confused me, they were blue and pink. I wentup to one of the pink plants and touched it. The plant wrapped itselfaround my arm, and soon enveloped my whole body.Joey came down the slope. He saw me from a transparent part of the plantand said, "What the hell is happening Alex?"I answered that I didn't know. Soon the plant started expanding around me,keeping my hands and feet tied preventing me from moving. The plant formeda dome of sorts filling. Guess I was feeling a bit sorry for myself. I shouldn’t have snapped at you that way. I’m sorry.” Abigail let out a pent up breath. His apology had her heart melting like a scoop of ice cream on a hot summer sidewalk. Oh-no, Abigail—she admonished herself. Do not fall for him! “You need a shave,” she said trying to change the subject. His lip kicked up at the edge. “I can’t shave one-handed, not unless I want to peel part of my cheeks and throat off.” He gave her a slow blink. “Want to do it. At least there would be a little diversity at this meeting was the next thought that came. But then, just when he thought all hope had been lost out to a basement of poor and tired men, he heard female chattering outside of the room, and lo and behold! Two women entered—a black woman and her white friend, but alas—they weren’t exactly the Playboy bunnies he had hoped to make friends with but rather two heavy-set women, big-boned and cheerful in their Wall- Mart clothes, holding cups of coffee.