with Hegbert running through my mind.
“My father doesn’t like you very much,” she said, as if knowing what I was thinking.
I nodded without saying anything.
“He thinks you’re irresponsible.”
I nodded again.
“He doesn’t like your father much, either.”
I nodded once more.
“Or your family.”
I get the picture.
“But do you know what I think?” she asked suddenly.
“Not really.” By then I was pretty depressed.
“I think that all this was in the Lord’s plan somehow. What do you think the message
is?”
Here we go, I thought to myself.
I doubt if the evening could have been much worse, if you want to know the truth.
Most of my friends kept their distance, and Jamie didn’t have many friends to begin with,
so we spent most of our time alone. Even worse, it turned out that my presence wasn’t
even required anymore. They’d changed the rule owing to the fact that Carey couldn’t get
a date, and that left me feeling pretty miserable about the whole thing as soon as I found
out about it. But because of what her father had said to me, I couldn’t exactly take her
home early, now, could I? And more than that, she was really having a good time; even I
could see tha