The drive to the restaurant was filled with a very tense silence. Neither Alfonso nor Seychelles wanted to say anything out loud for fear of a full-blown argument breaking out between them so they just chose to sit there are let their thoughts take them away. Elle wanted to ask Al about what to expect. Who was this friend? Why hadn't she ever heard about him before? Now she felt a bit dressed down with her casual look of jeans, especially when she saw that Al was wearing his usual immaculate suit and tie. He looked like he had just gotten ready for work and she felt frumpy by comparison. What had she been thinking? Al, one the other hand, had one thing in his mind: how to get Seychelles to stay working at the hotel. She was a very emotionally driven person, which is how she had ended up w

