Eventully I made it home after lollygagging most of the way. When I flung open the door it was quiet. A little too quiet. Usually there was some type of music playing or talking coming from behinde rooms. I let it go and headed into the kitchen for a snack. Taking an apple from the basket I noticed a note in my mom's handwriting.
"Elisabeth, we are at Mike's. Put on that new dress I bought you and come join us. Jessie can't wait to see you. Love, mom" "Oh no, not that dress" I said to whomever might be listening. Not that it wasen't pretty...as far as dresses go, it was too tight. It was a pretty color, this navy blue and the only reason I got it was because I saw Ben walking with a girl who had on a similer ensamble. *Boy did I have it bad or what?*

Good old Uncle Mike, I liked him. He was my dad's younger brother and acted just like him I thought as I pulled the killer dress over my head. I ignored it though, complaning about anything wouldn't make it go away. I learned that when my mom remarried. But I was looking foward to seeing Jessie, maybe she would have some ideas how to break the news to my mom and getting Ben to talk to me. So I left the house and ran the few blocks down to the house. When I got there, my shoes were a little scruffed up and my hair was falling out of place. I did the best I could pinning it up again and hoped nobody would notice my shoes. Almost immidietly I was whisked upstairs with Jessie and before I even thought of how to approch the subject I started to tell everything. Yes I had this big speech prepared for when the timing was right, but it was just easier to talk. All the while she stood looking at me as if I'd just robbed a train, killed all the passengers, and then just threw the money away and at the end all she told me to do was forget about him. "You know Aunt Katherine's and Allan's tempers" was her warning. She was right, they both could get pretty mad "Yes, we've met!"

I figured the only way to convince Jessie that Ben wasen't some miserable peice of Yankee slime was for her to actully see him, see the way he acted towards people so I had her come to the next rehersal and to my surprise, she liked him! On the way home she was begging me not to tell her dad. "Jess, calm down. I won't tell him, unless you plot some evil way to take him away from me. Then it's in God's hands" Well she held up her end of the deal and didn't take him away. I kept my mouth shut and didn't even let on. Eventully I got up the nerve to talk to Ben and we made plans to take a walk over the weekend and I was very much looking foward to it. At home, the usual. My mom was in the reading room eating up the latest romance book, something which Allen could never understand, he didn't relize that slipping into a book was a wonderful escape where people loved eachother was very refreshing for many people, and as for Satan's secertary, he was pacing back and forth talking to himself about the raise in tobacco prices and how we may have to let some of our wokers go.