"It was Mr. Short, Dark and Burly, and he was still staring after Ororo like he’d been stranded in a desert for a week, and she was a gallon jug of Gatorade."

That made me chuckle. Loved this chapter. It did remind me a little bit of He's Just Not That Into You for some reason but that's a good thing! You already know I love your Ali and your Anna, and there was plenty of both in this :)

Author's Response: okay, I beat my similes and metaphors to death, but I had fun writing that bit. Ororo's posse is going to keep showing up in this, I promise, perhaps in more silly ways than they have already. They're soon to be rewarded for being such nice friends to 'Ro, too.