"I said, "Fine. I'll just stomp and shuffle my feet while I make a pot of the vile stuff. I still don't understand how you two can stand it." Thats ea...y to explain," said Uncle Dar. "We're sitting." Jimmy," I asked, "can we change our times a bit? We have Cheer practice on the same days as your classes. I know that you don't have many on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Saturday is an open house for workouts. Can we come in on those days at 9 instead?"Jimmy said, "No problem. It'll give me something. I pulled back and blushed. Obviously his touching me was an attention getter. I guess I was looking at him to hard. "I know you don't want a beer. Hey dude you gotta a soda? What kind do you drink." Nothing carbonated." "How 'bout a glass of lemonade?"I smiled I liked it when a man shows initiative. "I would love one."As he placed the orders for one beer and one cranberry (there wasn't any lemonade) I asked his name. He tipped back his hat and smiled "My name is Clay." Great a good old. She would fuel my fantasies for a long time. When the phone rang later I had convinced myself that I would never hear form her again so I was surprised to hear her voice on the phone. ‘Hello Mike,’ she said. I was so sensitive to everything about her, she never said Hello always Hi, was this the final goodbye? My stomach dropped through my shoes. ‘Hi Caroline,’ I said, ‘it’s good to hear from you’. ‘I just wanted to talk about Sunday. Can we have lunch at your house, I haven’t been there yet. " Sounds interesting. We could get there without anyone seeing us?" We'll go after dark. It's only a two-hour drive. We can hide your car at a lot on the west side of town and you can hop in the truck just like last time." I'd like to get away. Sounds like a plan. I'm not putting that on the schedule, though. We'll have to remember. We can both buy extra groceries a couple of times and not be so obvious in the market." She picked up her PDA, and said, "Why don't you make us an omelet while I do.