You’ve actually come close to catching me a couple times, too,” I confessed.My roommate giggled, and remarked, “So, I’m not the only one in ne...ed of relief?”“No, you’re not.”“I’ll try to be more careful about getting that relief, I guess.”“No worries,” I said, “I’ll try not to gawk. Much.”“Did you?” Tonia asked.“Did I gawk at you?”She nodded.“Not really,” I answered, “I looked away pretty quickly. I was kind of embarrassed to see you like that.”We fell into an awkward silence. Then my stomach. "He said that he felt that I was the one from the moment he met me. We are going to wait until we both get our undergraduate degrees. Before tonight, I was afraid that I might have to put off graduate school for a while. Now all we are trying to figure out is when and how to do the whole 'meet the parents' thing. We figure we should at least let our parents think we are taking it a little bit slow, so we probably won't get rings until spring break." Did Ron ask you on the chair lift also,. " Candice cameback into the dressing room and said "show time hun." She had a fewwords of encouragement before I stepped out on the floor. She said,"Smile, ignore David, concentrate on your gown, and smile." With thatshe opened the dressing room door and we walked out onto the stage. Ifollowed her lead and ignored David, who I could see out of the cornerof my eye, and concentrated on looking over my gown in the mirrors. Ispent the next few minutes doing the requisite turns, viewing the gownfrom. " Hmm. That's always good to know, but that's not the only reason that I go out with a guy. You do know that, right? I hope you don't think I'm just some skanky slut because of what has happened between us." No. Not at all. Look, Natalie. The only reason I assumed that you would care about that is because you are such a sexy girl. It's just impossible for me to not be an idiot when it comes to you. You just have that effect on me." I don't think you are giving yourself enough credit. You seem.