Everyone has learned from their experiences. Especially teachers.


Chapter 7: Chance of a Lifetime

"Where are we going?" asked Jessie as Alexa drove like a wild woman through the streets of Evanston.

"Where are we going?" asked Eli as Tad strapped his helmet on and revved up his motorcycle. Eli was supposed to go to trial the next Thursday, but when he realized his attack on his stepsister Grace was merely an attempt to deny the true feelings he had for Thaddeus in a misguided attempt to prove his manliness, Grace and Lily and everybody who had a say in it including Mr. Dimitri decided to drop the charges.

"Where are we going?" Jake and Rick and Sam asked Lily, who had just pulled up to the house in the SUV, gotten out, gotten sweaters and sweatpants for the scantily clad men and taken a drag from Sam's doobie.

"Where are we going?" Grace asked Mr. Dimitri as he carried her across the threshold, staggering down to his egg car, placing her gently on the roof as he struggled to unlock the door with Missie banging against his legs.

"Booklovers," said Alexa, Tad, Lily, and Mr. Dimitri in all their respective locations.

"Where is everybody?" Katie asked Judy in a purry voice. "I thought Grace and Dimitri's wedding was supposed to start in 10 minutes."

Even as she spoke, Alexa & Jessie, Eli & Tad, Jake & Rick & Sam & Lily, Grace & Dimitri, Aaron & Miriam, Aaron's case worker & Les, Karen & Henry and Mark Feuerstein and that bald guy she dated and that one-night stand she had, and Tiffany and Barbara and Zoe and AJ and Lisa and Russell and Carla and Jen and Sarah and Sam's ex-wife who's also Ross's ex-wife and Sam's bratty son who's also Owen and Will and his daughter from Florida and Jared and Spencer and the ghost of Phil and the ghost of that guy who shot himself in the restaurant and the ghost of the father on Six Feet Under and the ghost of the mother from Providence (because ghosts love weddings) and Rick's mother and Rick's brother who he hasn't spoken to in five years and all the guys Judy ever dated including the old professor who's now like 70 arrived.

Father Michael performed the ceremony and everyone threw breadcrumbs (because raw rice can be damaging to birds who eat it and can't digest it properly) at Grace and Dimitri as they drove off into the sunset and wrote best sellers and lived happily ever after.