Shri and her friends strated up the steps towards the ball. "You sure you want to go through with this?" Adele asked her friend.<br/>"As ready as I'll ever be," Shri chuckled nervously. "I hope I don't look like too much of a wreck. I just don't want to look like a mess if we run into any cute guys. Though, that may sound rather perverted of me. They are all seventeen and look at us, we're twenty-one. You guys are expecting and I should have been by now, except everything was so wrong," Shri cried slightly realizing how messed up the system was for her and the happy couple.<br/>Dieter glanced between Shri and Adele as he wondered what to do. "You ok, Shri? You remembering the past again?" Shri nodded and Dieter placed his arms around her shoulders. "You WILL be ok, trust me on that. There is someone waiting for you tonight, I can feel it in my bones," he explained to her. "It is the ball after all. We would not have become friends if not for that night, and, Shri, I am sad that you sacrificed a lot for us, but I would NOT have it any other way," he grinned. (~)