HE JOKED.SHE FORCED A SMILE.
         
                  “YES SO WHAT'S IT TO YOU?”0 SHE STOOD UP AND WALKED OVER TO A
               ~CANT SEAT BESIDE £E~SE.
                  “SO,RICHEL DO YOU HAVE A NICKNAME?” J~ESSS ASKED. THE BRUNETTE
               S~4[ILED.
                  “CALL ME LEE.IT’S SIMPLE AND THAT’S WHAT MY MOM CALLED ME.”
               “~iALLEIff” MILL! SPOKE UP.
               I “CALLED.SHE WAS KILLED IN A CAR CRA.SW.I WAS TEN.” MILL! BLUSHED
               A~D THREW A DESPERA.TE LOOK AT JESSE WHO SEEMED MYSTIFYE]) AT THIS
               L ~3 PERSON.
               I “SORRY7 ABOUT THAT LEE.TIEIS IS MILLI,SIIE’S SHY.” HE HISSED..
               M~LLI FELT TERRIABLE.SHE FELT STRONGLY’ ABOUT JESSE,SHE REALLY LIK
               E~) HIIM.CVER THE SPEAKERS NATALIE COLE’S MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY PLAYED
               SPFTLY.SHE WHISPERED THE WORDS~NOT AWARE THAT ALL EYES WERE LOCKIH
               A HER.SURE SHE HAD A WONDERFUL VOICE BUT NO ONE EVER ASKED TO HEA
               R~J.SHE SANG A LITTLE BIT LOUDER.JESSE WAS LOCKING AT HER MIXED
               ~OTIONS FILLING HIS HEAD.
         
         
                  MILL! THREWHER HAGS DOWN ONTO THE BED AND WATCHED AS LEE TOSSED
               H~R STUFF CARELESSLY INTO A DRESSER.IT WAS ALMOST MIDNIGHT,LONG
               AND WERY MILL! PLOPPED DOWN ONTO THE WATER BED.SHE HAD TO ADMIT
               LEE WAS BEAUTIFUL.LEE STRETCHED LAXILY PUSHING HER HAIR CUT OF HER
               FACE.HER SLATE EYES DANCED AROUND HAPPILY AS SHE TOOK A WASH CLOTH
               TO HER FACE.IVIILLI PULLED HER SEL3 UP BY HER ELI3OWS.A MOMENT LATER
               J~M!I3 CAME IN AND TOOK THE THIRD WATER BED.LEE SET~ DOWN THE WASH
               CLOTH AND LOOKED AT MILL! CRITICALLY7.
                  “A PE~I,SOME MAKE UP.AMD CLOTHES AND WAI~LAW A PICASSO.” SHE
               SAID STRAIGHTLY..
                  “I’M ATTRACTIVE LIKE I AM.” MILL! SPAT OUT.JAMIE LOOKED UP.
               ~O INTO THE HALL AND TELL ME IF A BOY WHISTLES 2’ JAMIE BUTT IN.
               MTLLI SHRUGGED AND STEPPED JINTO THE HALL.
                  “HELLO YOU GUYS !“ SHE CALLED TO THE TOTAL STRANGERS • ONE TURNED
               AROUND AND BROKE OUT LAUGHING’.
                  “YOU POOR,POOR WCAMNL YOU’VE GOT ICE WATER FOR BLOOD” HE HOOTI~
               THEN THEY BROKE OUT LAUGHING .LEE STEPPED INTO THE HALL AND CLEARED
               HER THR@AT.THEY LOCKED UP..
                  “HELLO,” HER VOICE TOOK ON A SEXY TONE..ONE COUGHED AND THE OTHE
               STEPPED FORWARD.MILLI RACED INTO THE ROOM.JAMIE WAS THERE UNPACKII
              MILLIS CLOTHES.SHE WAS LAYING OUT CLOTHES THAT MILLI’0S FATHER
              HAD BOUGHT HER ThAT WERE STRAPLESS,OR TIGHT OR MINI.”JAMIE SMILED
               AT A BIKINI MILI WOULDN’T BE CAUGHT WITH.LEE CAME IN AND MILLI
              FACED HER..
                     “I WANT TO BE ATTRACTIVE.” SHE WHISPERED.
         
                  MITCH STRET~CHED LAZILY,SCRATCHING HIS BACK AND YAWNING.JESSE
         WAS ALREDY DCING HIS EXERCISES.AFTER SOME WeRKOUT,THE TWO GOT
         D~ESSED AND WENT TO THE CA~~
         A~K&OCKOUT BLOND.HE SAT E~!I~ERIA.AT THE TABLE SAT LEE,J’AMIE AND