Sorry about that, Michael. I will have two in place by tomorrow night,” Stu said.“Sure thing, Stu ... thanks for all you do. Remember, next year w...hen my girl is on this stage, light her well, or you will have me to worry about.”“Sure thing, Boss,” he said, slapping my back.“Ladies, I am in the mood for a spa later tonight. How about you?”“Michael,” my mother said looking at me funny, “Something about you ... is different, but I can’t put my finger on it.”“You better not, or Jenn may have. Memory is another funny thing, you can't trust it, not really. But you have to. Only memory can tell you about the past, but you never know if it's the past that really happened, or if it's the past you wanted to have happened. Or an entirely different past altogether."And after we close our eyes, like the good, little, obedient sheep we are, we gently drift into a deep comatose state, where our bodies are limp and disconnected from the surrounding world. And our brains, suddenly starved for. The rest of this story is what Lauren told me when I saw her the next day. One by one the group left until it was just her and Taylor. As they were talking, Taylor started to flirt with Lauren. Lauren gasped and said, " I thought you were straight. I mean don't you have a lot of ex boyfriend's? ". Taylor replied " I'm bisexual but not everyone knows that. Why do you think I spend so much time with Selena Gomez? And besides you are so hot Lauren, I want to see what you look like naked. ". Times was cancelled and replaced with a slew of women's magazines:Vogue,Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Woman's Week... and so on. At first I just ignoredthem, but she started asking me questions at random from various articles,usually ones devoted to makeup or fashion. She never 'really' threatenedme, but I learned quickly enough that I had better have knowledge of thearticle contents, if I knew what was good for me. I also learned that youcan't read that stuff as much as I did without some of it.