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"Yeah, I get that sense"

"He’d do anything to help this place, and the city needs him"

"What do you mean?"

"I think that’s for Levi to explain"

"Great, another opportunity for hiive ood at that, isn’t he?"

"The best"

"You ready to go shopping?" she asked, replacing the azines in the neat pile where I left them

"Sure, but you never toldtrip Not that I need an excuse to shop"

"I wanted to hang out without the guys for once There is only so rab "

Hailey drove us uptown in her red Jeep Cherokee "Are you aware that your car h traffic

"Ha ha, my hair is not that red"

"Okay, but it’s close"

"If you’re jealous, why don’t we dye your hair purple like your car?"

"It’s lavender and lo I didn’t pick out the color" I regretted pointing ht we’d head up to Magazine Street It’s no Madison Avenue, but it’s kind of fun and different," Hailey explained as she parallel parked along the street

Hailey was right; Magazine Street was fun Lined with a good e boutiques, it kept us busy for several hours Surprisingly, we didn’t buy anything in the first few stores, but just as I was ready to congratulateany money, I found a dress I couldn’t leave behind Little, black, and a bit racy, I wasn’t sure when I’d wear it, but it looked too good to resist

"I ht have to borrow that dress sometiar as I can borrow that skirt you picked out"

"Think of the clothing collection we’d have if we co on clothes at the first store we had discovered ere the sas back and forth"

"It’s always nice to get packages" Hailey glanced down at her cell phone as alked back to her car "Wow, is it that late already?"

"Why? Do you have soet out of it"

"What is it?"

"My soon to be roommate is in town for orientation and wants to meet up"

"Why aren’t you at the orientation?" I asked

"Oh, it’s totally optional I pretty rew up on Tulane’s ca her, but she was pretty persistent"

"It et to know her now instead of the aard reet I wish I could do that, I still don’t knoho ood idea, why don’t you come with "