<div class="floatleft">(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Janine_Lindemulder_DSC_0238.JPG)</div><br/><strong>Name</strong>: Kate Morgan (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=264761.msg13074497#msg13074497)<br/><strong>Time &amp; Location</strong>: Evening | St. Clair Residence<br/><strong>Tagging</strong>: Vi Leighton<br/><strong>Content</strong>: Arrival a HOA meeting<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Glancing up at the clock on the wall, Kate cursed under her breath as she hurriedly slipped on her shoes and grabbed her car keys.  “Running late as usual!”, she murmured to no one in particular.  As she flung the door open, she called back upstairs to Tim, who she presumed was in his room studying, “I’m leaving now, headed over to the St. Clair’s for the meeting.  Be back later!”<br/><br/>She would rather have a root canal than to have to sit through another association meeting, but she knew it was in her best interest to be there.  Members failing to attend would generally be the ones who found themselves slapped with some obscure fine for planting too many flowers on their property, or worse, the one who had a lien filed against their property because of breaking some frivolous law that no one ever knew about.  Kate didn’t trust the board members because she had been there long enough to know how underhanded they could be.<br/><br/>Now they had a new president, James St. Clair, who was recently voted in.   It would be interesting to see how he was going to run things, the changes he would make to their community.  Kate figured his position with the HOA was just a stepping stone to gain him a bigger and better political office somewhere down the line.  She didn’t know him all that well, but she got the impression he was all about power and control.<br/><br/>She arrived at the meeting with only a few minutes to spare, but she made the best of those few minutes, quickly shuffling over to the bar and pouring herself a glass of red wine.  Exchanging a few pleasantries with the other attendees, she seated herself next to Vi, giving her a little wink and grin as she leaned closer to where only she could hear her.<br/><br/>“What?  No<em>party favors</em>?”<br/><br/>