She asked me if I knew what my dress size was and if it was similar to men's sizes. I told her I wear a size 14 dress. She told me she would have pu...t me in an 8. I thanked her for the compliment, but I was pretty sure of my size.I told her that I wanted a dress with some sleeves (didn't want to shave my arm pits) and something simple, yet elegant. We picked out a few and went to the corner dressing room. This dressing room was away from all the others and had its own private mirror so that. I already could tell that you liked the other. When we were driving home last night my mother said something to me about that too. She did it deliberately, to embarrass me in front of Daddy." What did she say?" "She said it was a good thing I had a dress on, because the way we were dancing so close, I might have gotten pregnant otherwise." Wow. What did your father say?" He didn't say anything, but he looked at my mother, and then shook his head at her. My mother says things like that because. We’re in the Central Time zone, and Mom and Dad popped the champagne at eleven when the ball actually dropped in New York. They even let me have a glass of it. It was sour and tasted funny but it made me feel more grown up to be allowed to drink champagne with my parents when we toasted the new year.Mom and Dad finished the bottle while they stuck around watching the party on television for most of the next hour but said their good nights shortly before midnight. I turned off the TV not long. Or somewhere over there. I don’t remember. Anyway, she had a date with one of those circus workers. I know because I overheard her telling the other girls at the Shack before hand. After that date, it’s like she went missing for a few days, but I got a call from her mother who told me Audrey had been deathly ill in bed and they had been so worried about her they had forgotten to call me. They has a close call she said, she actually thought Audrey was dead but then she revived on her own before.