After I finally pushed away my annoyance about Damon leaving, I finished off my water and waited for the girls to come up for the meeting. About 10 minutes later, there was a knock on the door. Ciara, Danielle and Rose all entered into the office, each carrying huge bags full of stuff. Samantha came to stand beside me while the girls stood in front of my desk. I sat up a little straighter while Rose stepped a little closer to my desk with her bag. "Good morning Blaire. We know you have to get things ready for Jen's arrival, so we won't take up too much of your time. We decided that since you said that the only real requirements were that we stick with black and gold, we wanted to try and go with something close to a New Year's theme. We weren't completely sure on if there would be food or

