I dressed slowly, savoring the time alone. I spent a long time with mymakeup. I had learned to enjoy this process of getting ready for theday. I pu...t on a long necklace with dark blue beads. It had come with amatching bracelet and dangling earrings. Primping was becoming a habit!When I was finished, I looked in the mirror and liked what I saw. I hadbecome used to my Carolyn look and was rather narcissistic about it. Ohhow fun it was to be a lady!I decided to make a list of things to buy. All I feel is tongue and I managed to force myself torelax and see what she does. I get a momentary frightwhen she growls at Storm when he wants to help butother than that, it is clear she is intent on makingsure she misses nothing.Finally, I feel her jump off the bed and I listen asher toenails click on the floor. I hear a few noisylaps at the water bowl and then the unmistakable soundof her going out the dog door.“How was it?” Julie’s voice is gentle.“Awesome,”. Eventually my bro decided to go get a drink and left me and his girl alone, I decided to mess with her a bit."Don't think I didn't notice when I walked in, what were you guys doing?"She just blushed and said "Nothing!" Whatever," I snickered, "you were sucking him off, didn't think you were that kind of girl."Once we started I began asking her several questions, what exactly have they done, where have they done, how good was my bro? All questions she was shy to answer."You're no fun," I said,. ”Her big grin belied her words.“Yeah, we’ve been making our own dinners for almost an entire week!”Heather’s grin matched Celeste’s. As I took the boxes from her, Dad joined us.“Hi, Celeste. It’s good to see you. Carol said that it’s been a whole six days since we’ve seen you, so we had to get pizza today.”“That’s good because you guys eating pizza is good for me! I wanted to thank your family, again, for inviting me last Thursday. I enjoyed it, and so did Andressa.” She looked down, then back.