I open my eyes as we circle and I lock eyes with Giggles again. She is staring right at me. God, she is starting to annoy me. If looks could kill I'd ...rop dead. I give her a beaming smile. I'm not on the naughty list for nothing. The murderous look she gives me back has me laughing."What's so funny?" Nothing," I murmur. I nestle in closer, swaying just a little bit more than before. If she must glare at me, she can have a real reason. His hand tightens round my back. My breathing gets a little. “Mom! Dad!” She set a soft-sided suitcase on the floor.“In the kitchen,” Sierra replied. “How did the Forensics state finals go?”“Our team came in second overall. I won three individual gold medals and two silver.”“Excellent,” Glenn said. “You’re closing out your senior year with a bang.”“Marcus won a gold, two silvers and a bronze.”“Good for him,” Glenn replied.“What’s for dinner?”“Tuna casserole,” Sierra replied. “It needs another hour to bake and then brown under the broiler.”“But our. ”“Then tell us what DOES interest you?“ Henry shouted, putting his hands to the side of his head and pulling great handfuls of hair in frustration. “For God’s sake, man, you have an entire planet in the palm of your hand! Don’t you realize that?”Every eye was on Kamil. He floundered, unable to speak. After several agonizing seconds, Annabelle separated from the crowd and touched him on the arm. She looked into his eyes. “Dear, you should tell them,” she said.He blinked. “Are you sure?”. She was a simple minded blonde airhead that more than lived up to the stereotype. She was, Connie believed, her son's one great mistake in his life. Try as she could, Connie had been unable to keep him from being swayed by a pretty face and a big set of boobs. Nothing that could have come out of her mouth was going to carry more weight than the things Babs was doing with her's.So she had reluctantly watched when they married at 19. A year later, she could almost forgive Babs for marrying her.