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seems to be aware of his own posture when he confronts Charles Allen. Most people are because Charles Allen is so correct he makes you aware of yourself. I guess even I was walking and standing better. I know I stopped slumping in my chair in class.
    â€œYou’re all looking at me as if I’m nuts, I know, but he’s got these eyes that fill with criticism. You can see your faults reflected. You even speak better.”
    Just talking about him now made me aware of my posture. I straightened my shoulders and sat up.
    â€œCharles Allen has very good grades, of course. He’sdiligent, responsible, reliable, trustworthy,” I catalogued, “all the things teachers tell us to be. He’s a little stiff when it comes to sports, but he’s the school’s best tennis player. He has a serve that turns the ball into a bullet.
    â€œOf course, it doesn’t hurt that he has his own tennis court at home and when he was only ten was given lessons by a professional who had competed at the U.S. Open.”
    â€œIs he an only child?” Star asked.
    â€œNo. He has a brother who is five years older, Randolph Andrew Fitch, who works with his father in their commercial real estate business. His brother isn’t married, but he has his own condo in Beverly Hills. When Charles Allen would tell me about his parents’ divorce, he would claim his brother sided with his father, although Charles Allen told me right away that his parents were having what he called a civilized divorce. There was, according to Charles Allen, little animosity. Don’t you just love his vocabulary? Little animosity,” I repeated speaking a bit through my nose.
    â€œâ€˜Everything is in the hands of their lawyers,’ he claimed.”
    â€œTell me about it,” Jade said, twisting her mouth so that the corner cut into her cheek. “I think my mother’s lawyer is after more than just his fee. He’d love to have my mother in his hands.”
    Star laughed. Cathy’s smile of amazement lit her eyes. I saw her whole body relax. For the first time this morning, she actually looked happy.
    â€œI didn’t think Charles Allen would say anything else to me because of the way he had rushed off, but at theend of school that day, he was waiting for me in the hallway and he just started talking as if we were still in the middle of a conversation.
    â€œ ‘Although every divorce has to be different by its very nature,’ he declared like some professor lecturing on the subject, ‘I’m sure we share a great deal in common.’
    â€œ ‘Excuse me?’ I replied. Are we speaking the same language? I wondered.
    â€œ ‘I knew my parents were going to get divorced one day. For years my father has had a mistress and my mother has known it but pretended not to,’ he continued. ‘Of course, I feel confident that she has had her assignations as well.’
    â€œ ‘Her what?’ I asked.
    â€œ ‘Affairs,’ he said with that dry tone. He has a way of lifting the right corner of his mouth when he’s making a nasty comment. I called it his Elvis lip. He said he didn’t know what I meant, but I knew he did. Charles Allen is very. . .sneaky,” I said. “He’d probably call it subtle. As you can see, if I got anything at all out of knowing him, I got a better vocabulary.”
    â€œWere you in love with him?” Cathy asked. The words just seemed to leap out of her mouth. They even surprised her and she looked about with terror after she had said them.
    I looked at the others and then quickly at Doctor Marlowe, who appeared very pleased about it.
    â€œI thought I might fall in love with him. Why? Are you in love with someone?”
    She shook her head quickly and looked down.
    â€œBecause if you want, I’ll stop talking and you can tell us about it.”
    â€œAll right, Misty,” Doctor Marlowe said.
    â€œI don’t want to