"Check out Lake's coaching staff," I said nodding toward the first base dugout. She looked, and her eyes got wide."What's he doing here?" That was my ...uestion." I waited for Coach Calloway to come back. Okay, I didn't just wait, I pouted."Okay, here's the deal," the coach said when he came back. Ricky and the rest of the team had joined us on the bench. "Lake's coach, Bill Seguerra, is out for a week because of his appendix. Coach Rich is taking over." Why?" Robbie and I said together. "Isn't. The next day, he was on his way to college. He had decided long before, that he'd sign up for the summer before his freshman year, just to get ahead. He was far away but I relieved that evening over and over in my dreams.A Saturday morning, about 10 months later, I lazily woke up in the middle of the morning, when everyone in the house was leaving to go shopping at the mall. They went out the door and I went in the shower. Knowing that I was completely alone in the house, I took a nice long hot. . I guess they were right, it really isn't that much of a big deal..."And then, four nights before we were due to fly back home, I was kidnapped.Hubby was really excited about this deep-sea fishing trip, in spite of the fact that I had told him I get deathly sea sick on small boats. But he really wanted to go, so I told him to go ahead and I'd spend the day shopping, which he was glad to escape also.Walking up and down the streets in the market, I began to notice that I seemed to be attracting. ..and Mike surprised himself by saying that hethough England would win tonight! Steve thought he'd gone nuts and evenMike didn't know where his sudden confidence in their team camefrom...or on the flipside...this extra heaviness...like someone leaningon him. He daren't talk about it though.The best mates walked into registration today...they were in class 8ATwith Miss Connor as their form tutor. Period one was English, thenGeography, break...French...lunch...PE(cricket) then Tech...homeworkfrom.