She just said that Adam would tell me who I was supposed to be ~ you know ~ I was supposed to be nice to. Alicia told me to invite Kristen to come alo...ng with me. Alicia wanted to know if she could handle herself at the party and all. It would be important for the guys to really like her and that would determine if Kristen could work with Alicia at Corporate Partners. I mean if you noticed in the picture there, Kristen, looks like she’s only about fourteen years old. Once we got there I. How could I have been sofoolish? Given a chance to have my dreams come true, I turned it down?And if there had been any negative fallout, I could blame the wizard. Itwould be his fault, not mine, after all.I got off the bench, and staggered to my car. It was probably a goodthing I don't live far way, a person shouldn't drive in the emotionalstate I was in. But I managed to make it home without killing anybodyelse. I sat down at my computer to to turn it on, and stopped. Most of thetime, when my. "Hi, pumpkin," he said as he turned towards me. He was holding a plate full of pancakes, which he then placed down on the island bar between us. "Dig in." Ok" I answered. He didn't seem mad or anything. If fact he actually seemed quite happy. I sat down and picked up the bottle of syrup my dad had place before me. I poured a generous amount of syrup over my pancakes, while hoping this wasn't an act and my dad wasn't about to start screaming any minute. Screaming about how disappointed he was in. Sometimes it got personal with her remarking on mylooks or how tired I was on a given day, and I'd respond with equally snideremarks about her plastic desperation to recoup the last twenty years. Noneof it was professional in the slightest but as long as nobody more seniorthan us heard, we carried on.I knew it was because Jackie was jealous. I was half her age, half herweight, and classically beautiful with a small but perky bust, a thin waist,full blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes. I also.