I paused as I neared my favorite chair. "Stop it Harry!" I heard a voice from behind the sofa. "Don't do that," The voice said again.Without thinking ... quickly moved to the far side of the couch and there much to my surprise was my sister Jackie with her blouse open and her breasts exposed. I didn't know the young man she was with."What the hell is going on here," I said angrily. "Jackie who is this guy and why aren't you wearing a bra?" I know, what a stupid question.From the looks of things I. She promised to make the Walkabout their favorite vacation destination. I threatened to put rabbit turds in her chocolate milkshakes if she went back on it. I dropped twenty grand in her bank account, the maximum that the fed would allow without the tax man slithering towards her.Carl had put down Berber carpeting in the salon. That shit gets dirty if you look at it wrong so I ripped it up and covered all the free space with red Persian carpets. The lower hallway was protected by a braided. ’ ‘Tell your dad I feel obliged to get prices from two other yards, one in Aussie. He’ll know what boatyards they are. Tell him I’ll ensure the launching receives TV coverage.’ ‘TV coverage guaranteed?’ ‘Guaranteed.’ ‘Sounds good. Can we go out somewhere on Saturday night Jack and then come back here?’ ‘Have you forgotten you’re married Faye?’ ‘Oh yes that was a hopeful oversight, wasn’t it?’ * * * Eleven months later Jack met his mom at the airport. She’d come to the launching of the new ferry. You were always the smart one.”“I gotta go,” Gerald said. “I’ll come back and visit again.”“Yeah, you do that. Thanks for coming.”Gerald left and drove the two-and-a-half hours home lost in thought. Dad had been right. Just keep your nose clean and your head down and stay away from guns.Jeff died later that winter.G2 heard something he didn’t recognize in the noise of the crowded street. The bumping throb hit him in the chest and made his lungs vibrate. It didn’t seem to affect anyone else.