Betty Gifford and I hooked up in the tenth grade. I’d known her since the fifth, but all we had ever been was classmates who knew each other. She wa...s a sexy looking honey and she had fueled more than one instance of self-abuse if you get my meaning, but the truth was that I figured that she was so far out of my league that I never worked up the nerve to approach her.She was the daughter of the wealthiest man in town and I was the son of a factory foreman. Nothing wrong with being a factory. I'm always looking for different things to eat, so I thought I'd give it a try. The waitress walked over to me with a cup of coffee and asked what I wanted. She brightened up when I said spaghetti.She went into the kitchen with my order and was back almost immediately with a plate of stuff that looked like white worms! There was some red stuff to one side of the plate and some balls of what looked like meat on the other side. She said, "Be sure ya put plenty of the sauce on yer spaghetti an'. I can't even describe my thoughts. To be honest, I don't know if I was actually thinking. I was just feeling. I was feeling total despair, and total desperation.I started to get my hysterical tears under control. I wiped my eyes on my lab coat sleeves again and I looked up to see Doyal smiling down at me, enjoying my distress.I struggled to my feet and pleaded, "Please sir, that isn't what I meant."He just kept smiling. He said, "I didn't think that it was you silly bitch. But it is what I. Jobs would be my father. Maybeth nodded and handed the sheaves of papers back to him. Certainly Tony. He smiled at her and at Kiara and Jacob. Kiara and Jacob smiled back, but all Tony could see at that moment was the brilliant smile she gave him. Surprised again, he stuttered slightly. N-Now, if you w-will excuse me, I think I will take the stairs, given the fact that elevators seem to be quite dangerous. Farewell. And he was off, his mind reeling at the sudden attraction he had felt for a.