K - You should have charged your client. It was slightly akin to winning a case for him.

I wish I had had enough guile to dupe my friend! Oh, that would have been fun.

Unfortunately I didn't.

Still, she slept with guys that we both now find to be odious as adults, and she can't take back what she did.

The beauty of being a late bloomer is that you bloom with more wisdom than you would have had when you were younger. I was more selective and made less mistakes.

An unrequited crush, I can deny. Sex she can try to deny, but it physically happened.

Funny aside - our shop teacher (easy h.s. credit) coached a sport for the rival town after school. He took a shine to me and always wanted to set me up with a boy from that school who he really got along with, but he always had a girlfriend. His family owned several businesses and they had quite a bit of money.

My same friend knew specifically who this boy was. But she wasn't aware of what my teacher had wanted to do.

The summer after freshman year of college, at a bar, I see her fluffing her hair and putting on her "come hither" look to some preppy dark-haired boy. I asked who was in her sights. She just walked up to him and started talking to him, introducing herself, etc.

When he mentioned his name, I couldn't help but be floored - it was the shop teacher's "intended" - and when I said my name, he was just as floored. We told my friend the story, and she was anything but amused. He then turned his full attention on me.

When we went to the ladies' a little later, she began screaming at me about how he had a girlfriend and I should lay off him because I was making a fool of myself.

I simply said, but it was okay when you wanted him. She screamed at me some more and slammed out of the bathroom.

We dated for four months. He was the worst kisser I ever encountered, and if I could have gotten past that, he would have been the perfect boyfriend.