/Kurt/ I grinned. "In point of fact, I'm going to bring my girlfriend along with me." He practically yelled down the phone, "WHAT?" when he asked the question. “Whoa! I made a joke to Nate, saying, "Take it down an octave there," and I laughed at his astonishment. Nate was completely unaware of the fact that I was on a covert mission with Jane; to him, I may as well have been employed anywhere in the District of Columbia. I'd informed him that I'd met a female while out with the guys for the night. "Are you actually thinking of going through with this? "When you kept talking about her, I thought it was just a phase you were going through," he said. "When you stopped talking about her, I thought it was something more." My eyes rolled in my head. "This is not a passing phase. I frow

