When they broke their clinch, the woman stepped back and looked at Steve adoringly."I missed you, Baby," she purred.Steve took her hand and turned her... slightly to face me."Roxanne, this is my friend Jody. Jody, meet Roxanne Fuller."Roxanne held out her manicured hand, I took it and mumbled out a greeting as I tried manfully to keep my eyes on hers. I recognized the tall redhead, because she was the woman in the pictures Steve had taped to the inside of his wall locker. She looked just as. Mumbling something that she couldn't remember afterward, she backed up and managed to welcome them. Act like you have a brain, Stupid, she admonished herself. "Soft drink? Or I could make some coffee?" she asked as she remembered the coffee maker, then wondered if she could figure out how it worked. It didn't look anything like the cheap one in her apartment.Bill sat on a couch, Kathy on one side and Jill on the other. "Coffee sounds good," he responded, and the other two quickly agreed."I'll. We need to introduce her around, so she feels more at ease. Think you can manage that, big guy?’ she responded. Jason turned towards Gillian again. ‘Anything for my harem!’ He led them around the room, and introduced a few guys, and some girls to Gillian. The names were flying by so fast that Gillian couldn’t keep track of them, much less remember who was who. They mingled for a while, and almost the whole time, Gillian noticed that Jason kept an arm around each of them almost the entire time,. "I was making a mess of it, but dad was reading between the lines quite accurately and told me he understood, and that he now understood why I was trying to match him up with Celia - so he could have a relationship with a future!None of them knew, yet, about my moment of weakness with Raymond, and HE wasn't likely to volunteer anything, so I felt all the bases were covered by the time Nick arrived.It was already late at night and we all had barely enough time for the gratuitous hugs and kisses.