She thought about all the things that annoyed her about him, about all the times he was rude and condescending and all that. Lizzie started to calm do...wn and get her hormones in check when other thoughts came crashing into her head. Images and snippets of previous conversations began floating around her head. Pritkin laughing at some ridiculous joke one of their friends made. Pritkin changing out of his sweaty t-shirt. Pritkin teaching the younger kids with a smile on his face and making the. I could overhear their insipid conversation from one banal subject to another while she giggled and laughed, and all the while I was melting inside just watching them. Suddenly they both left for the bathroom.... together?! I couldn’t believe it, I could only imagine what they were going to do there, and how in their lust, they would devour each other while I was abandoned there in my boring dull sterile world. I couldn’t help myself; I jumped out of my charir and headed straight for the. There was an attractive, older woman in business dress. I thought she might be a vendor representative. We shook hands and then she asked if she could speak with me alone. We went into the conference room. She reached in her purse and pulled out the cut off photo of myself. She had lost my contact info. She lived in another city about 70 miles away. Over the months, she had been visiting different ad agencies, looking for me. I was amazed and flattered she put so much energy into tracking me. But how could she dothat in this stinking weather? She tiptoed quietly down the hallway to the kitchen, hopingthat at least everyone else was asleep, though she didn’t see howthey could be in this heat. She knew that Rick, her futurebrother-in-law, and Dave, her younger brother, had stayed up lateplaying a game, but they must have gone to bed too. The light wasout in the living room. She tiptoed past the guest room, where Rick was sleepinguntil the wedding tomorrow, and saw no.