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date?”
    The girls really laughed at that one
as Daniel’s Jaguar stopped in front of the building.   He got out of his car and walked around it,
toward Nikki.
    “So tell us, Nick,” the leader asked
again, “what sane man would take you on a date?”
    Daniel was dressed in a periwinkle
blue Armani suit and rounded the car looking pristine, Nikki thought.   His hair had dropped down along his forehead,
giving him a youthful appearance, and his muscular body, a body she now knew so
well, seemed to strain the fabric of the suit.   He kissed her on the lips when he made it up to her, to the amazement of
the cheerleaders, and opened the car door for her.   Nikki then turned around, and looked at her
stunned college mates.  
    “This man would,” she said, and was
about to get in the car.
    But the football captain’s girl only
had eyes for Daniel.   She could see that
sugar daddy doing all kinds of wonderful things with and for her.   Nursemaid Nikki
certainly didn’t deserve a man like that!
    “So you’ll come to the party then?”
the leader asked, eyeing Daniel as if he was a steak to eat.   “You can come, and you can bring him too,”
she added with a sweet, innocent smile.   “Will you come, Nikki?   Please?   Pretty please?”
    Nikki looked at her as if she was an
airhead personified.   What, did they
think Nikki was stupid?   Did they really
believe that she would all of a sudden want to belong to a group like
theirs?   “Let me think,” Nikki said, as
if she was actually giving the invite some serious thought.   “Do I go to your party and bring my
date?   Or do I stay home and put needles
in my eyes?   Umm,” Nikki said as if she
was actually weighing her options.   “What
to do, what to do.”   Then she smiled.   “Ooops, the needles won.   Sorry, girls,” she said, dropping the smile
that was as fake as theirs, and got into the car.
    Daniel smiled too and shook his
head.   The silliness of youth, he
thought, as he closed the passenger door, rounded the car, and got back
in.   Nikki was laughing as they drove
away.
    The leader looked at the other girls,
who were staring at her.   “What y’all
looking at me for?” she snapped.

 
    Over the next few weeks, there would
be many lunch dates and dinner dates for Daniel and Nikki.   Every day, in fact, they had some form of
contact.   But it was usually brief, a lunch
here, a dinner there, as Daniel often had to be out of town or attend some
major meeting or entertain some out-of-town business associates.   She even spent the night with him a few
times.  
    But as the third week of their
courtship was drawing to a close, and he was set to leave town, yet again, on
business, he picked her up after class, in front of the admin building once
again, to take her, she thought, to lunch.   But instead of taking her to lunch, he first took her to a car
dealership.   To a Lexus car
dealership.  
    As soon as his Jaguar came to a stop
in the parking lot, Nikki looked at him.  
    “What’s this?” she asked him.
    Daniel already felt odd about making
this big a leap.   But he didn’t feel it
could be helped.   He had business
meetings in California tomorrow and throughout the weekend, and then he had to
leave there and be in China all next week.   He didn’t feel this was a matter that should wait until he returned.
    “This is a car dealership,” he said.
    “I know that,” Nikki said with a
smile.   “But why are we at a car
dealership?”
    “You need transportation.”
    “I have transportation.   I catch the city bus wherever I have to go.”
    Daniel didn’t even realize he was
holding her hand, until he was just now about to reach for it.   He squeezed it.   “That’s not going to work, babe,” he said.
    “Why not?”
    He had no intentions of going there
this soon with her.   But then again.   “You remember what I said about our
relationship?”
    “How we were going to give it our best
try, and how I’m