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    They entered the Diner and sat down, before haughtily ordering four sodas from the young waitress, who’d had to drop out of their college to work and support her family.  A frisson of delight ran through the four girls, when they saw that Jay Patterson was playing on the old nineteen fifties, pinball machine, with his goofy friend Kevin.
    “I  totally told you he’d be here” said Tori to Amberlee, with a self satisfied look on her heart-shaped face.
    Amberlee flushed.  She suddenly felt a little dizzy and she hoped that Jay had noticed her arrival.  Her three friends started whispering and giggling and she wished that they would behave more maturely, she so wanted to appear sophisticated.  She watched from the corner of her eye, as Jay bent his long lean body over the pinball machine.  However it was Kevin, not his friend who acknowledged her existence, with a wink and a keen look of interest.
    “Ask him to be your date for the dance,” said Judi with a breathless eagerness in her voice.  She was a shy timid girl who felt safer sitting on the sidelines, and watching life happening to other people.
    “Yeah go on, we dare you!” chorused the other girls, secretly hoping that Jay would reject her.  In truth, they all would have like to see Amberlee Robinson being taken down a peg or two.
    “I can’t do that! Not in front of everyone!” protested Amberlee.
    “But there’s only us here and his friend, you don’t want to ask  him at college with all those pretty girls around.”  Tori was goading her now.
    Amberlee considered that she could lose face in front of her three friends, and that would be unbearable.  She felt that she was the queen amongst them, and had always treated them as her ladies in waiting, their only purpose in life was to be at her beck and call.  However she knew that she couldn’t not ask Jay for a date now.  Her constant boasting about how irresistible she was had finally come back to haunt her, and now she had to prove it.  She stood up and sauntered over to Jay and Kevin, feeling nothing of the confidence that she was trying to portray.  The other girls were watching on the edge of their seats as if waiting for the climax, in a well publicised, popular movie.  Amberlee knew that she had her work cut out.  She had seen how the untouchable Jay Patterson had been with Elena Hudson, on the night of her disappearance.  She had never seen him pay any real attention to a girl before that night, and she had felt really jealous.  She, like many of the other girls had tried to get Jay to notice her on many occasions.  Her skirts had got shorter, and she wore her necklines very low just for him, despite the freezing cold weather.  She would travel to college in an outfit, that met the approval of her mother, and would change before she went to class, just for Jay’s benefit.  She had really got it bad for him.  Now for the moment of truth.  Amberlee was glad that she’d had her hair washed and conditioned at the weekend.  She thought it looked great, and had received many compliments, which was compensation for that crazy hair stylist who had almost drowned her while washing her hair.  She wished Kevin would stop looking at her as if she was the Diner’s special meal of the day, and leave her alone with Jay.  She wished that he would look at her in the same way he had looked at Elena Hudson.  He had his back to her, and continued playing on the pinball machine, even though Kevin was nudging him to alert him of her approach.
    Kevin was hoping that Amberlee had come to talk to him but he knew better.  His buddy Jay was so cool and standoffish, but it drove the chicks crazy.  He had tried to play it cool many times around girls, but it had never worked and he thought that it was because he didn’t possess Jay’s long, lean body and broody good looks.   Jay was always telling him that he just needed to relax a little bit, but Kevin was convinced that to