“You think Zane will like this on me?” Maria asked from Dr. U’s bathroom. We were supposed to be here to help Dr. U get ready for her date, but it turned into all of us preparing for something. Zane had asked Maria to the pre-ceremonial party tonight. Dr. U was about to go on her first date in years. And all I was trying to do was impress my Eros for the party tonight—hoping that it wouldn’t go as terribly as the last one in Lust did.
“Come on out, Maria,” Dr. U said, moving her lips as I tried so desperately to put a light pink coat of lipstick on them. I had begged her to let me try a bold look on her, but she denied. Dr. U peered over my shoulder from the couch at Maria, made the funniest pained face I had ever seen, and smiled.
I suppressed a giggle and turned around to see Maria in
