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those blue highlights look stupid.” Eve and her honesty point out.
    “Eve, we will discuss this later,” I hiss.  I make sure I give the kid with blue highlights an extra big scoop.  I like confidence in a kid so young.
    As I hand it over to him, his eyes get huge.  “Wow” he exclaims, “You’re a nice girl.”  
    Eve snickers, “I guess I’m the mean girl?”
    “Hey!” 
    “Janie, stop sneaking in through the back of the store, you almost gave me a heart attack!”  I turn and see the ice cream cone Eve just scooped all over the floor.  The next kid in line starts crying.  I hear someone yell “Stop pushing or I’ll tell my mother.”  The whole store is breaking out in chaos. 
    Janie seems oblivious to the noise. “You guys, I am freaked out by Dee’s pact.”  Janie is literally bouncing up and down as she’s talking.  Her nervousness tends to bring out a strange quirk.   She’s like a spring on ADHD. . “I hate any kind of pressure when it comes to sex.  I mean I want to have an orgasm.  I just don’t see why it has to be with a guy.  Why can’t we get vibrators like those successful career women and learn to do it by ourselves.  I mean really.   In this day and age, you don’t need a guy for sex anymore, right?”
    Then silence.   The kid who saw his ice cream cone get dropped on the floor has even stopped crying.  Eve quickly scoops the biggest hunk of ice cream I’ve ever seen and hands it to him.  He walks away with a huge smile.  Quickly the chaos returns. 
    “Okay, Janie, that was awkward.  Can we discuss this tonight after closing?”
    Janie grumbles okay and goes back to her post.  She looks so sad, which in turn, makes me sad.  There I go again, feeling what anyone around me is feeling. 
    Or, at least, that’s what I’m telling myself. 
    I, too, feel overwhelmed.  Dee decided last night that we need some sort of pact .  Since we all lost our virginity around the same time, we needed to put all our psychic energy together and make sure each of us experiences an orgasm within the year.  According to Dee, it can’t be with vibrators.  She claims that is too fake.  Eve correctly pointed out that since Dee herself had never experienced an orgasm, who is she to judge what is real and what is fake?  Dee had an answer for that.  I swear she is going to be an excellent lawyer some day.  For a gal with limited experience, she convinced us all that we truly won’t be complete until we get the whole package.  Orgasm followed by hot lusty sex.  She claims that can’t be accomplished with a vibrator.
    I turn to the next customer.  An adorable little girl around eight.
    “What can I get you, cutie?”  I am hoping the faster I go and the bigger scoops I turn out, the little buggers will get distracted and not run and tell their parents what Janie just blurted out. 
    “I’d like chocolate chip please.  I’d like my scoop as big as that kid and what’s a vibrator?”
     

Chapter 3
     
     
    The tears just wouldn’t stop coming out.  Here I am at the airport saying goodbye to Eve.  She was so excited and I was a mess.  UGGG!  Stop crying, I told myself, you are being such a baby.
    “Eve, I must be PMSing”
    “Oh Grace, I will miss you too!” Eve’s eyes started to well up. 
    “See I am doing it to you too.  I promised Dee I wouldn’t become a blubbering idiot.”
    “Dee called me this morning from Chicago.  She is one to talk.  We both started crying.”
    “Really?  Tough as steel, Dee?”
    “Yes, then she had nerve to tell me to remember our pact.  As soon as we….. you know” Eve lowered her voice and looked around.   Her mom had gone to the café to buy Eve a sandwich for the plane.  Even though Eve was adamant she would land in time for lunch, her mom insisted.  I think Eve’s mother wanted to hold on to taking care of her daughter for a few more minutes.  Eve rolled her eyes but I thought it was sweet.  It made me