Eric caught my look and then stammered out.

“Oh, I'm sorry. Amy, this is David. David, Amy."

She held out her hand.

“Pleased to meet you." I looked at the way she carried herself, still in that coltish awkward way showing she still hadn't grown into her body. Her head bobbed a bit when she turned. I realized just how old I was getting with these kids who were four years younger than me. Still, she was quite pretty and I knew she'd break some hearts when she grew up.

Amy soaked in my little evaluation of her nice body and proudly thrust out her chest.

“So you dated his big sister?" She giggled in a flirty little way.

"Yeah, we're still friends. But she goes off to some internship every summer so I haven't been by Eric's house since he was, well... a lot skinnier. How did you end up with him?"

Amy turned to her blushing boyfriend and smiled, “Oh, you could say it was love at first sight. I had just transferred in from out of state.

The minute he saw me his jaw went slack and he just stared in utter rapture." The cute blonde giggled.

“It made quite an impression that this tall, hunky man was so taken with me immediately."

We both looked over at the boy, but realized Eric's jaw was rather slack and he was staring off behind me.

Amy remarked, “Yeah! That's the look!"

Meanwhile, I turned to follow his gaze and saw Amber walking up to us.

I instantly analyzed how graceful she walked, despite her wedge sandals. Her miniskirt and blouse were also quite a bit more grown up.

Perhaps I should have immediately recognized that Amy was not her, even from behind. This was a grown-up woman.

I reached out my arm.

Amber settled into me and said, "Hey baby. Who're your friends?"

I gestured to the slightly-recovering Eric, who was still staring at

Amber in wonder. My girlfriend had that effect on occasion. "This is

Eric. He's actually your roommate's little brother."

“Really?” Amber said dramatically, searching his face.

“E-Beth's little brother? I'm Amber."

"I know," he stammered. "I was a freshman when you both were Seniors in

High School."

Eric still looked tongue-tied so I gestured to Amy, who was Looking back and forth between Eric and Amber and didn't seem too happy with what she saw. Myself, I started to wonder if his most recent slack-jawed look was for his girlfriend... or mine. I finished by directing Amber's attention to the younger blonde, saying “And this pretty girl is Amy."