With summer approaching I befriended Scott Fredrick. He was in my class, new to our school in the winter semester. His family moved into a big house i... our neighborhood that had a pool. I will admit I befriended him hoping to get to use his pool over the summer.Scott is a nice kid, a little on the nerdy side right about 6’ tall with a thin build. It wasn’t hard to get him interested as he didn’t have many friends. I invited him to sit at the lunch table with me and my friends. My plan worked. ”“In other words, you don’t trust her to take them if you send her home,” I replied.“Correct. We did back off a bit on the dosage of her antipsychotics, and that’s helped her lucidity a bit. We’re hoping to get her to a point where we can begin proper counseling again, and see if we can get her into a frame of mind where she’ll take her medication willingly and in the prescribed dosages at the prescribed times.”“I assume Father Stephen visited her?”“This morning. He gave her communion and spent. "What's so funny?" he asked nearly tripping over. "Is my hair stickingup?" Sit back down Mike." As he did I gently unwrapped him from the blanketthat he got entangled. "You got caught up in my blanket."Even he had to laugh at that. It was nice to here him laugh after allthis time.We sat down to eat. The pasta bake was wonderful but I digress...Michael cleared the table as he did every night. And set to work loadingthe dishwasher. "Mum," he paused. "I've had a lot of time to think andthere is. Danmade the statement that they would oppose any possibility of bail. Infact, there was the strong likelihood that the death penalty would bediscussed, unless Ron was willing to cooperate. There was nothing moreheinous than killing a member of one's own family.That is probably what set Ron off. He began yelling that he needed tobe running the ranch and that he had done nothing to keep him lockedup. Then he segued into bargaining, as if Leslie or Dan could changethings. Despite his lawyer's.