They still had a lot of fun, particularly Katelyn. Her almost six-foot frame and impressive speed kept the game close at the beginning. She couldn’t...throw very well but with Jackie’s arm and Katelyn’s speed, she broke through the other team’s defenses twice in the early going for long scores.The other team adjusted, however. The guy who had been covering Phil moved to Jackie, the team’s best player and usually the focus of the other team’s best defender. This time the best defensive player. Frowning slightly, he placed the ring on his index finger. Looking up into the mirror above his dresser, Gerald saw a dark grey cloud roughly the shape of a human form behind him. “I am the spirit of the ring,” the ghostly form spoke. “Wish for whatever you want and it will be granted. There will be no consequences from the wishing, but your actions, as is normal of your kind, will bear fruit in the world around you. Just remember, you must say ‘I wish’.” Upon saying wish, the foggy figure. Ilse is a wonderful woman and I really like Bram and Naomi too.”“That’s good to hear,” Erik said, sounding proud.It wasn’t exactly what he said, as the way that he said it. It felt as if I had received his blessing to continue dating his daughter. We had reached an unspoken agreement. Switching topics, we talked about other things that interested us. It felt good to know that despite my relatively young age he deemed me worthy of his daughter. Call me old fashioned, but I felt a lot better. He had cut school and completed the necessary testing, physicals and so forth several days before so now, all he had to do was sign the final documents and await orders to ship out.While he waited on orders to ship out, Jason did odd jobs around town to make ends meet. He never spoke to his parents again. The night before he left he drove his truck to his grandfather’s home to get permission to store it in the garage on the out of town acreage. When he found out why Jason wanted to use the.