Melissa blushed heatedly.  "I have my studies to worry about.  Daddy wanted me to get into a good college, and I did.  Now, I have to be sure and do well there.  It's really important to him."  She looked back up at her father and smiled, one hand blocking her eyes from the sun.  "Really I don't need all those guys leering over me, and drooling like Elliot there.  They're just a distraction."  She giggled to herself and sat at the edge of the pool dangling her long shapely legs in the water.  Her oversized shirt hiding everything else.  She almost looked like a small child at the poolside.  She didn't -really- feel that way, she had always been jealous of how easily Emma could talk to guys, how quickly she could make them do anything for her.<br/><br/>She saw Emma flirting with Elliot and rolled her eyes to herself.<em>What had gotten into Emma?  She had never really shown any intrest in Elliot before, why now all of the sudden?</em>Looking back up to her father, she saw her step mother there now.  She felt a little deflated as she watched her wrap her arms around her father.  Something had never felt right about that woman.  Though, she would admit she was just a little jealous of the affection her father gave Diane.  Before Diane it was just them, and their father.  She was the only woman in his life, and the apple of his eye.  Lately, he hadn't seemed to notice her at all.