“Lily. Can you just tell me before I lose my patience?” I harshly asked her. She looked at me for a moment and asked me, “Are you getting angry at me?” I looked at her and shook my head and took a deep breath “No lily I’m not. You know how much I want to know about Zoey and how much I want to speak with her. The only person I can get to know about her is you. But you keep testing my patience by talking about your mother.” As I finished, she shook her head and laughed at me and said “OK, I stopped teasing you. Mom asks me what I think about you and I told her how I feel about you and asked her to give you a chance for you one time, and she said OK” “What?” “Are you serious?” I asked Lily, looking at her with a huge smile on my face. “Yes, she is giving you a chance once, so try you

