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and she’d called her that ever since.
    Heather got out of her Camaro and grabbed her bags out of the trunk.  Dusk was beginning to settle in, and she wanted to get inside before she had to start worrying about bears and mountain lions and whatever else might be out there.  She followed the stone path to the entrance—a massive wooden door that seemed almost out of place next to the Lincoln Logs look of this—well, it was nearly a mansion.  Why Katie had insisted upon calling it a cabin, she’d never know.
    She rang the doorbell and, after a longer wait than she would have expected, Johnny answered the door.  At least she thought it was Johnny.  She hadn’t seen him in a while, and this guy’s hair was short .  His eyes, though—she was sure it was him.  She’d never know until he confirmed, though.  “Johnny?”
    “Yeah.”
    “Hi.”  There was no recognition in the man’s eyes, either.  “Heather.  Katie’s friend.”
    “Oh, shit, yeah.  Heather?  You look so different.”
    She grinned.  “I could say the same about you.  Who took the scissors to your hair?”
    He smiled and rubbed his hand on his neck.  “Yeah, well…let’s just say nature’s a bitch and I’m trying to hide it.”
    Heather frowned until she realized that he was probably talking about losing some hair.  So she nodded, and then Katie showed up behind her boyfriend, shoving him aside once she saw who was at the door.  “Heather!”  She paused and then said, “Holy shit.  You’ve lost a ton of weight!”
    Heather grinned again.  “Well, not a ton…”
    “You look fantastic!”  Katie grabbed her in a big hug.  “Come on in.  Oh, hand me one of those.”  Heather handed her one of her rolling bags and Johnny insisted upon taking the other and the three of them walked inside.
    Just as it had seemed from the outside, the place was huge—vaulted ceilings and wide open space.  There was no real foyer, just a great room with several different areas of interest.  Heather’s eyes wandered to just the side of Katie’s shoulder, where she could see a huge stone fireplace.  In front of it were two loveseats and a couple of overstuffed chairs surrounding a large square coffee table.  There were several people too.  Great—all couples.  Yeah, this was going to be a really fun vacation.
    She followed Katie until they got to where all the people were.  Heather looked from one person to the next and saw that they had a Monopoly game spread out over the coffee table, and it looked like they’d been playing for a while, because there were little green houses and red hotels on all sides.  Katie said, “Everyone, this is Heather, one of my very best friends.  If it wasn’t for this woman, my master’s thesis would have sucked hard.”  Heather grinned and rolled her eyes.  Sure, she loved getting credit for helping her friend, but she hadn’t been that instrumental in her friend’s pursuit of a grad degree.  Katie kept talking.  “Okay, Heather, you might not remember everyone until you’ve been here a while, but I gotta introduce them anyway.  Here on the right are Stone and Kory.  Stone was an original member of Spawn when they first hit big.”  The guy named Stone nodded.  “Kory’s his girlfriend.”  The dark haired girl with piercings waved and smiled as Heather’s eyes moved to the next.  “You know Johnny.”
    Johnny straightened his back.  “What?  No big introduction for me?”
    Katie sighed.  “Trust me.  She doesn’t want to know you.”
    Heather laughed.  “I practically didn’t recognize him at first.”
    “Yeah, yeah.  Rub it in.”
    Katie then said, “This is Riley.  He was part of the original Spawn.”
    She was glad Katie was introducing everyone, because she didn’t recognize them, famous or not.  “Nice to meet you.  You’re in another band now, aren’t you?”
    Riley nodded, his trademark cocky grin covering his face.  “Undue Influence.”
    Heather