Andy spent the rest of his evening taking care of some business matters and trying to get Jade off the phone after breaking his date with her for the charity ball on Saturday. Jade was a wildly exotic foreign diplomat from Brazil who was not afraid to speak her mind on anything. She had been chasing Andy for a year now trying to get him in her clutches but to no avail. The time she came to his house for tea, at the request of an old friend, almost a year ago; He could not believe what a beauty she was with wavy dark hair that hung about her narrow waist. Her flawless olive complexion was set off by a pair of jade green eyes, which is where her name had come from. She had worn a black sheath that had barely done its job to conceal her luscious curves. A sultry mouth had introduced itself to Andy on more than one occasion since that day but Andy was little more than vaguely interested in her now, just as he had been in the beginning of their on - off relationship. Later that evening when he had climbed into bed exhausted from the whole day his mind wondered back to Jordan's beautiful face. He wondered if she was thinking of him as well but a quick glance at the clock told him that if she were then she must be dreaming because it was nearly one o'clock in the morning. He lay there a long while thinking of how to ask her to accompany him to the charity ball being held next Saturday evening. After a long time of deliberation he finally decided that he should go shopping early with Jordan. If things went well then he would ask her to fly to New York for a shopping trip to purchase a dress. Smiling to himself at how easy things sounded he drifted off into a deep sleep.