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president of potty training and head of the neck washing committee!
    She thanked God that Lila had agreed to come home and give her the courage she needed to attend the reunion. Her friend must be thrilled to come back and share what a glamorous life she led in Southern California; movie premiers, designer clothes, star studded parties. Lila was tall, gorgeous and successful. How could it get any better than that?
    Jilly laid her head on the table for a moment of
    self-pity when she realized that she reeked of regurgitated baby formula. Dragging herself off to the shower, she fantasized about what it would be like to change places with Lila for a week. Heck, who was she kidding? She’d take a day.

Chapter 3
    T he day before she left for Bentley, Lila was still valiantly trying to convey to Charlotte the basic information that she would need in order to be Josh’s temporary right hand. Unfortunately, Charlotte didn’t seem to be up to the task. Earlier in the week, Lila put her in charge of booking a plane ticket for Josh from L.A. to New York. But instead of flying him first class from LAX to LaGuardia, non-stop, she booked him in economy class on a flight leaving Long Beach, making two stops and finally landing in Islip, Long Island. Then, to make matters worse, she reserved a hotel room for him at a Radisson in Queens. When Lila asked what she was thinking, Charlotte answered, “I was thinking that it was nine hundred dollars cheaper.” Needless to say, Josh was furious. But Lila merely laughed and thought what a wonderful thing Karma was. Josh had asked for Charlotte and while the going around was easy, the coming around could be a real bitch.
    Being that her boss wouldn’t be back until the next day, Lila decided to leave the office at 5:30. She wished her replacement good luck, grabbed her purse and made a bee line for Cynthia’s office. As Lila walked through her door, her friend squealed into the phone and hung up on whoever she was talking to. Cynthia ran around her desk, pushed Lila into a chair and threw her hands into the air, “You are NEVER going to guess what I just found out!”
    Lila ventured, “Too much caffeine is a bad thing?”
    Cyn gave a loud, “HA!” and continued, “No my dear, I just found out why Josh was so cool about your taking a month’s vacation with a retroactive raise.”
    Lila’s heart fell. She knew it shouldn’t have been as easy as it was to get time off and more money, but in her desperation to vacate the premises, she tamped down those pesky little questions that kept popping into her head. “Do tell.”
    “Well,” Cyn started, “it seems that Melinda is under the impression that Josh got you suspended for a month without pay because you called her the Queen of Oral Pleasure.” Lila couldn’t seem to find her voice. She sat there with her mouth open ala mounted fish, absolutely mute with fury. Cynthia continued, “And you are never going to guess where I got that bit of information…” Lila just stared at her, “from Franze LaBonge.”
    Lila finally found her voice, “From your hairdresser?! How in god’s name did Franze find out?”
    “From Sherry Foil who heard it from Nastacia.”
    Completely astounded, Lila asked, “Sherry Foil heard it from my eyebrow-waxer?”
    Cyn answered, “Not only your eyebrow-waxer, but half of Hollywood’s as well.”
    Lila could not believe what she was hearing. It had to be common knowledge among everyone that Melinda knew she had the power to get Lila suspended. In and of itself, Lila didn’t give a fart what the movie star’s crowd thought of her. The problem was that Melinda thought that she had the power and that was simply not going to wash!
    Cynthia continued, “Don’t worry, I told Franze that Melinda was making it up because you caught her in flagrant delicto with one of the janitors in the third floor coat room.” With extra glee, she added, “Then I made him swear on his best scissors that he wouldn’t tell