Chapter 1. Johnny at the Sheldrake
Penny, I really love Baby. It's not just a summer romance. It's not because she's the only one who ever stood up for me. She's a smart, unspoiled woman who cares about others and especially me. Baby has showed me the kind of man I want to be, and I miss her.
I've never known anyone like her. She thinks she can make the world a better place. Somebody's lost, she will find them. You were bleeding, and she helped even though it hurt her relationship with her dad. It was brave to go get her daddy. That took a lot of guts. She doesn't seem scared of anything, but she said she is. Baby said she was scared of walking out of my cabin and never feeling again the way she feels when she's with me.
I know you told me to cut it out, but I just couldn't. I fell in love with her. I was a bit afraid at first because she just turned 18 and I was 24 on August 18, but although she is innocent, she is very grown up for her age. I gradually came to love her while I was teaching her the Mambo routine. I don't want to lose her now.
After I crashed the final talent show and everyone could see from our dance how much we care about each other, Kellerman chased me out of there. I didn't even get her address, and the hotel won't give it out. Her family left the next morning.
What makes me mad is that Kellerman's has a double standard. They fired me for being with Baby, but Robbie Gould, the rotten waiter who is sleeping with Vivian, Moe Pressman's wife, still works there. I guess it's because he's a Yale medical student and I'm a nobody. He even tried to make it with Baby's sister and got you PG but still didn't get fired.
Later after Baby's dad found out it was Robbie who got you pregnant and not me, he went to Max and asked him to give my job back. But I didn't want to work at Kellerman's after Max, his wimpy grandson Neil, and the waiters treated me. It was good that I was hired by the Sheldrake Hotel as their dance instructor, Penny, but they only stay open until early November. It's 20 minutes away from you at Kellerman's, but if you need me, I can drive there. My cousin Billy will take care of you. I really don't want to go back home to work for the House Painters and Plasterers Union, Local 179. I don't know what I'm going to do next to earn a living, but first I am going to try finding Baby.
