More water to loosen the lump in my throat and, "Rambo, what time is it?" Two hours till dark. I was about to call and see if you'd gone back to sleep..." Nope, just daydreaming of a better place. Anyone around? I'd still like to get started a bit early today in case there's any little glitch later on."Rambo didn't answer for several seconds and then that whining voice in my earpiece again, "All quiet, Sugar Tits. Just taking a good look around through the binoculars and no one is anywhere close. My best friend had her arms wrapped around her twin brother’s neck, and they were gazing adoringly into each other’s eyes. Very corny, but she assured me all the stupid love songs made sense once you were in love. It was quite the exaggeration, but I was still glad she’d finally found happiness. Fingers crossed that it lasted, I thought darkly, before quickly dismissing it. No need to be so morose; sometimes happy endings did come to pass.“Mademoiselle, the senators ‘ave just arrived,” Alain. Thank god it was the Richmond City Police who came for us, not the sheriff. When they knocked on the door, I pulled it completely open and showed them my hands. “What took you so long?” I asked. I had the digital recorder in my vest pocket and it was running. As I expected they took the vest and all my toys. The stun gun was brand new, and now it looked as though it was lost. I knew for sure that I would buy the same brand next time. It had worked brilliantly.“You do know that the tape they. Since then, outside of a smile and nod of the head as they passed each other in the halls, the cake incident was Bob's last feeble attempt to win her heart."Sure," he said trying to keep his voice from cracking from nervousness. Bob could hardly keep focused on what was being said at the meeting; all he could think about was being able to sit down with Arlene and have an actual conversation. Of course he had no idea what she wanted to talk about and assumed it was work related, but that was.