Unfortunately I placed third in my first event which put me outside the automatic seeding, but my time was also the third fastest of the four heats in... that event, so I was placed as an alternate. Would have to do better in the next event.At the break between segments, Aunt Liz came over and stated she wanted to introduce a friend that had watched my event. Feeling kind of self important, of course I would. Then again, would not have had time to say no anyway as a middle forties or so, petite,. I'll be fine." We'll meet here," Steve insisted."That's silly. There's no room!" We'll make room," Grace countered."I'll be back in a sec. Grace, stay here. Give me like five or ten minutes. If I haven't got everyone back here, come join us."Not certain of the purpose of the meeting, Miss Sanders had hinted about entering the production into a statewide and possibly nationwide contest. She'd sent a video from the first performance to the judges. Monday she looked effervescent. Wanting to meet. Stella swore blind that she hadn't let out Aileen's identity to them, although she admitted tipping the press off that we were on our way to the shore the day before.Later that afternoon after Stella and I had returned to the hotel, she burst into my suite carrying several British newspapers."Well, someone recognised Aileen pretty quickly. Listen to this?" Stella said then began reading snippets from one of the showbiz gossip columns."Author Duncan King has found his princess at last." She. -Woah. You look so cold. Hold on, I’ll get a blanket. I didn’t want to let go of him. But reluctantly I did, still not able to calm down. Soon he was back with the blanket. He didn’t look cold one bit, but I guess out of solidarity got under it with me. And I have never experienced a cozier feeling. In fact I would have enjoyed it very much, if only my body would give me a break. While he was gone the shivering stopped a little. But I was hot and didn’t know how to say it. After all, he Did.