"From the LGBT society?" Yes," Ellie replied. "Though I- I'm not, umm, 'L'..." Oh," Sade said, her face falling. "I just, umm, thought..." Ellie felth...erself tense up as Sade became increasingly flustered."S- Sade?" Ellie asked. "Are- are you okay?" I, umm, I need- I need to go," Sade said, hastily reaching for her bag."No, wait," Ellie said, reaching out to grab her friend's arm, only tofreeze when Sade flinched away from her. "...Wait, please? I- I'm sorry,I- I dunno..." O- okay," Sade said,. We went back into the dining room and finished dessert. When I left, Paul was still sitting there with the rest of the male members of my family watching football.I went home and picked up two homemade pies that I had made and took them over to Mike's house. I had promised the girls I would make them a pie. Marie wanted apple and Molly wanted pumpkin.When I got there they both ran up to me, hugged and kissed me. I even got a smile and a kiss on the cheek from Mike. We all sat down and had pie. Both of us stopped and looked around. The people who where behind nearlytripped over us and went off muttering nasty things."Hi Beth," I said walking towards my sister after spying her by theentrance to WH Smiths. "You decided to get up then?" It the holidays," she said feigning being upset, "you don't have to getup as early as school days."Anna and I just exchanged glances and giggled. Beth is one cool sisterto have. One annoying feature of Beth is her ability to see what's goingon around. It even felt like there was already some kind of connection between us, though we’d only just met a few hours ago. She was genuine and intriguing and relatable—and beautiful enough to write songs about. But I dreaded to think that I might be turning down an opportunity for some hot, sweaty holiday sex with Tracy. “I don’t know,” I said at last. “But it doesn’t matter. I doubt either of those girls would appreciate it if we told them we wanted to switch dates at the last second.” ****** RIA.