"Speaking." replied Michael."Hi Michael it's Grace, how are you?" asked Grace."Good and you." asked Michael puzzled as to why Grace would call him, th...ey were now friends because of David but she never called him before."Good, look I was wondering if you would be free to talk tomorrow at around 10am." said Grace."I guess so, but what for?" asked Michael."Oh, David's 18th birthday is soon and I was going to start planning it and I would like you help since you're his mate." replied Grace lying. " Realising I'm losing the argument, Itry a different approach."What if," I say, "I buy them with my own pocket money?" Mum simplygiggles and shakes her head."Laura..." Mum asks with a smirk, "have you already bought some thongs?" ...Maybe," I mumble, immediately realising I've been 'busted'."I can't stop you spending your pocket money on things you want," mumsighs, "even if you are FAR too young for thongs." Nicole and Suriya wear them," I say. "And they're younger than me..." Ah, peer. According to my mom, Mandy expressed interest in going out with me. When I got home that day, she was practically pushing me out the door to go over and ask Mandy on a date.I believed her when she told me that Mandy was interested. So I went over and knocked on the door. Mandy came out and sat on her porch with me and when I brought up what my mom had said, she looked kind of embarrassed.Turns out, she hadn’t said that she wanted to go out with me. She had told my mom that I was a nice guy and. He is interested in the huge trees you sold this time and hopes to contract for five hundred of them,” he explained.His face fell when I warned that it would be twenty-five to thirty days before I returned. “Is it important to have them sooner?” I asked.He looked around conspiratorially, and then leaned in closer. “The Emperor can be impatient at times,” he whispered.I nodded understandingly and bit my tongue. I noticed that several of my Gorokian androids had moved much closer to us and were.