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DiscreetOfficeServices.Com Chapters 9--10
Date: 1/26/2024, Categories: Occupations, Author: campusvamp
... how long it had been since I'd had a date and not a client. Damn! The answer was depressing. We read for a bit more. "Danny?" "Just shoot me," I heard him mumble. "Yes, Olivia?" "Why were you going to ask me if I'd go to the wedding with you? Before I confused you by kissing you. I'm sure you've gone to other family events alone. What makes this wedding different?" Danny didn't answer. Then, quietly, "Carolyn's gonna be in the wedding party." "Iknew I'd seen this in a Hallmark movie," I laughed, drum-beating my tennis shoes on Danny's seat. "You want your old girlfriend to see you happy with a new, hot girlfriend! Oh, God! This is going to be so muchfun! Queen Bee of her school, my ass! I'll squash her like a bug!" "Carolyn is pretty, well... Pretty." I waved that away with a negligent hand, "It's all about attitude. If there's one thing I have? It's attitude!" "That's for damned sure," Danny grumbled. I thought about my wardrobe. I needed to go shopping for shoes and a new outfit. I told Danny that we needed to go shopping either tonight or tomorrow before the rehearsal. "Why? Olivia, you brought a ton of clothes already. I know because I carried them!" "I need shoes. High heels and something else to wear at the wedding rehearsal. I brought dull clothes. I need something spicy to squash a bug." "Why bring dull clothes," Danny asked, not understanding. "I told you. This weekend is all about the bride, dummy! I'm not a stuck-up ...
... bitch..." Except for glaring at Danny, I ignored the soft,'Oh, yea?' from him and repeated, "I'mnot a stuck-up bitch, but I'm not stupid either! I'm very tall, very pretty and my chest tends to attract attention. So, I wear flats. I wear dull clothes. I fade into the background and never,ever stand beside the bride when people are taking pictures if I'm very much taller than her. No one with manners outshines the bride onher day." Danny seemed amazed. "I didn't realize so much thought went into attending a wedding." "Live and learn, Danny. Live... And... Learn." I picked up another magazine to leaf through. "Danny?" "Why did I even bother bringing a book... Yes, Olivia?" "Do you have a pen and paper?" "I think I might have a pen. Why?" I held up the magazine so Danny could read the cover of myCosmopolitan magazine. "Cosmo has a Sex Survey we can take to pass the time." "Oh, hell no!" Danny's younger brother Stanley was there to meet us at the station. Stan had just graduated high school. I called shotgun and as the brothers put my luggage in the trunk, I heard Stan ask Danny, "Where the hell did you meether?" "Olivia lives in my building." "Oh, man. I can't wait to attend college in the Fall!" A couple of blocks from the station I saw a Coffee Clutch ahead and asked Stan to stop. "We're only half an hour from the house," Danny grumped from the back seat. "Can't you..." "I just spent five hours on a train," I replied without turning my ...