"Once she had disconnected to call, she looked at Victoria and said, "Let's take a quick shower because they invited us to come over." As they headed ...for the bathroom, I went to the spare closet to get something nicer to wear than my jeans and T-shirt. When the women finished their shower, it was my turn. By the time, I rejoined them both of them were almost finished dressing.As we took the short fifteen-minute drive to Chinatown, I cautioned Barb to not get her hopes too high and don't agree. Both Dirk and Hans already topped the scales at two-hundred pounds. The twins had brown hair and dark brown eyes like their father.I took after my dad who was five foot eight tall. Unlike the twins, I was very slender and must have seemed like a complete wimp to them. Both boys had also been the top wrestlers at the school that they formerly attended.Hans and Dirk had separate bedrooms, each with two three-quarter beds. I would spend the first week in Han's room, and the second week in Dirk’s. We had a great conversation and, in passing, she mentioned that she was heading to her bank to clear up an overdrawn account. I teasingly said that she needed to be smacked for doing that. Khrystiana hesitated a minute and then asked me if I really meant that. Now I was the one who asembarrassed. I kind of backtracked and said that it was really not appropriate for me to say something like that. She then said, “I was wondering because that is exactly what my father would have said and, in. Satisfied, Alice walked out of her room, closing the door behind her out of habit, and walked down the short hall to her parents' room. She opened the door quickly, knowing they weren’t home yet but were going to be any second, and switched on the overhead light. There was always change and wads of cash in a bulk sized pickle jar on her father’s nightstand with a handwritten label taped over it that read, “Alice’s College Fund”. Ironic, Alice was stealing from her own future...Just as Alice.