" What? Okay. Yes, I remember." You still interested?"Was I interested? Sad, lonely, fifty-two-year-old Pete gets the chance to have sex with twenty-s...omething girl. You bet I was interested."I'm interested." Good. I'll make some calls. Someone called Dave will probably call you." Dave. Right." Have fun."As he rang off, I looked at the phone as if it was a piece of alien sculpture. What had I done? Had I really just agreed to take part in a porn movie? I still couldn't get my head round it.Dave. They had decided the Junior-Senior Prom was the perfect occasion. Darryl hadn't been able to come her junior year, so Courtney had decided to skip it rather than go with anyone else. This year Darryl, a straight A student, had arranged to take several exams early in order to attend. He would have to return for graduation, since he was valedictorian, but then he would drive back to have his car at the lake for the summerAs soon as everyone knew he was coming for Courtney's final prom, they all. John acknowledged him and rolled the partition back up. Jill’s phone buzzed. It was a text message: “Just bought another finance company. Need you in Dallas in two weeks to finalize deal. 5th largest finance company in US with lots of international clients. Bob”Jill handed me the phone. I read the text. “Just you eh?” I said.“Yeah. Not sure how to read that. Just me because I’m in charge of Financial operations or something more. He did seem to fancy me when we were in NYC.”“That he did. We can. His idea was that he would come down town, find a jeweller, have the ring made and then propose. Now, suddenly, it got complicated.“I’ll go and get her. If you can get some designs together, I’ll bring her down and we’ll sort it out.”He returned to the house. When he got there he saw a very embarrassed young man along with his father. It was the young man from the wedding.“I-I wish to apologise for my behaviour last night,” the young man stammered.“It is not me you need to be apologising to..
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