"Where is the TV?" Tommy asked."Sorry, we don't have one," Callie informed him. Tommy frowned, so Callie thought for a minute and then she rushed upst...irs to find the old toys that Cade had given Harley. She returned with a set of army men. "Would you like to play with these for now?" She offered. The twin boys eagerly took the army men and began dividing them up."Now don't get carried away," Angie warned, "We aren't going to be here long, so don't make a mess." Come in the kitchen and I'll. He would not let himself lose. Not if there was anything left in him. He fixed the pins down the lane with a determined glare. They were the enemy, they were what threatened to subject to this, and all he had to do to thwart them was take them down five at a time. He made his approach and let the ball slide off his fingertips. The alley echoed with the crescendo of urethane on laminated wood, climaxing in a thunderous explosion.* * *Tim sat on the edge of the bed as the door to the bathroom. ”“What’s big?”“Your boss, the pTerridactyl, turns fourteen, and I’m told to squeeze my eyes closed and imagine magic.” Maddie smiled. “Something about a wedding.”“Terri’s,” Brindy said.“Who’s a year younger than me,” Deena said. “Lots of young girls marrying there.”“Yeah, if we’d known, I could’ve probably talked Bill into it. Nikki was fifteen when she got married HERE. One of the local judges wrote up a document, they signed, got married right there in his office,” Deena said.“She told you. The instant they saw me, they all screamed, jumped up, and ran to hug me.“Ho Ho Ho!” I bellowed. “Merry Christmas!”The students were beyond excited, and I needed to calm them down.In my deepest, Santa Claus voice, I ordered them, “All right everyone, if you want to be on the Nice List, you need to be sitting quietly on the rug in 5-4-3-2-1!” By the time I got to the number 1, every single Kindergartener was seated quietly with his hands folded.I sat down in a large chair at the front of the.