I need to pack and make some calls. It’s just before 5:15 there?”“Yeah. Is that too late?”“No, sweet pea. I learned how to fly in the dark, ...ut it won’t even be dark when I get there. I’ll be at your house around seven-thirty or eight. Tell your Mom and Dad, OK?”“Yes, Chuck. Thank you. I love you. I can’t wait to see you.”“I love you too, sweetness. I’ll be right there. Bye.” I thumbed my phone off, closed some files I was working on with my computer, grabbed my jacket and my crash bag and made. Well, I was kind of surprised, Tim buried himself down in our Audio-Visual Room and I didn’t see him for days on end. Then he came up with a script and asked me memorize my speech and we’ll have a dress rehearsal Monday. The rehearsal went fine but what was on my mind was how to get this stud to fuck me next week. I booked us a two bedroom suite at the Bellagio with a bar. I went to a fashion consultant and bought $3,000 worth of new clothes that she said WERE “very classy, but would attract. Silently attesting at some cataclysm rendered distant by the passage of time.Muted by a lush carpet of early green. All noted in passing as we turn at last outward.Sliding away over more sections of ancient 'once wood' to where it now blends harmoniously with carefully cobbled stonework. Joining in its turn, over a modest distance eventually to a more modern paved byway.Providing efficient means for small carts and similar light traffic, winding unhurried along its course through and at last. "Is that the only reason you turned us down?" she asked"What do you mean?" I responded"Because you didn't want to leave her on her own at Christmas." More or less," I told her."You've changed" she said"Well maybe that is a good thing" I responded "now we are really busy here so if it is all right with you I will hang up now. I will ring Clare later and extend your invitation and call you back tonight. Is that O.K.?"Yes." she said "And Greg ... I am sorry I shouted at you."And so it was that.