" Hey, I just thought it up. Wouldn't dare."When dinner was ready, they sat around the table. Saul stood up."It's Thanksgiving. We have a lot to be th...nkful for, and mostly it's our wonderful family. And our wonderful luck. Let's drink to that."After dinner, the men watched football. The women cleaned up the kitchen, having shooed the men away to their television. Eventually they sat around the table with beer and popcorn.Sigrid said, "Heather, I don't think I told you. I talked with your. Flournoy, saw the focus in her,and had talks with some of her other teachers and the cheerCoach, Ms. Nichols, to allow to bring her grades up throughhis tutoring. They all agreed, as did Ellie.Through the end of the first semester, Mr. Flournoy'stutoring brought Ellie's grades up to a passing level, thesemester exams confirmed that. Ellie became happy again.Mr. Flournoy suggested to Ellie that the focus she has whenshe is cheerleading, should be used towards her studies.Ellie took Mr.. “I enjoyed meeting you, Willow. I hope we can talk some more.”He hugged her tight for longer than was Emily Post acceptable, but I answered for her.“Why don’t you exchange numbers?”Willow’s eyebrows raised when she looked at me, but then there was eye contact between her and Brock while they exchanged phones and typed in their phone numbers.Just before getting off the transfer boat, I handed Willow her top and Brock reached to take it from her, “Let me help you with that.”Before he was done. Kathy stared at him, a bewildered expression clouding her otherwise sharp features. "What are you doing?" she asked softly, trying to appeal to his sense of better judgment. "Her arms ached from the handcuffs and her wrist burned in the vise-like grip of the steel bands. Confusedly, she stared down at the handcuffs, raising her wrists to eye level. "What do you want of me? I-I don't understand? You're all so young! You should be out playing football or chasing girls, not kidnapping a twenty-.