It was I who had to confront all the other k**s and the teachers tomorrow.Mother dried the tears from her eyes and looked at me."Oh honey, it's not th...t bad. It's.. It's..." she started to laugh again. This almost hurt me more than a scolding would have done and I ran into my room and slammed the door after me and threw myself on the bed with my face in the buried in the pillow.After a while I heard a timid knock on the door."I'm sorry honey. I know I shouldn't laugh at you. But... never mind.. "Good morning Lucy," the waitress said as I seated myself. "You want your usual?" Sure why not," I said I had no idea what the usual might be, so it didn't matter. When the food came, I found that my regular was scrambled eggs with sausage. It was very good, so I knew why it was my regular. It was delicious.When I passed a small discount store in one of those strip shopping centers, I bought the final four pints of molasses. With my new ingredient in hand, I made for the office. I found my. " He whispered. " I didn't..."I pulled the back of my nighty down and stood up with a pillow case in my hand. "Oh Ron... I, I, I didn't hear the shower turnoff. Oh my, I feel so embarrassed." I continued, "I was just going to put a clean pillow case on for you." I said walking toward the head of the bed.Ron tried to break the feeling of awkwardness by saying, "Don't feel embarrassed, it was an accident." I can't believe that just happened Ron." I chuckled."You can't believe it? I can't believe. Jackie sighed. “Tracie, I know you never finished high school and you told me you hated science. Why are you asking these questions?”The woman turned and put her arms around Jackie. “Because I love you and worry. I’ve found that I’m trying to learn more about space so I can help more.”“I was going to take you with me, if the captain didn’t have a problem with it,” Jackie said.“I don’t. Sergeant, make sure that the troublemakers in the crew know just how harsh I might punish them if I find out.