You know the rules." Rick started it!" Did not." Uh huh, you did too." I don't care who started it, you're all gonna stop it right now," Mindy boomed....The boys settled down and she returned to her reading. She got through a couple of chapters before she heard the boys whispering loudly from the pool. Someone seemed to be daring someone else to do something again. Probably cannonballing off the diving board, she said to herself, knowing her brother's fascination with seeing how far out of the. She was surprised to seeGerry walk into the office a good 40 minutes early. She had never knownhim be early, much less by this amount. Was that a good sign, or a badone? >From the distance they were at and the fact that she had only givena fleeting glance at the door as it opened, Gerry couldn't know she hadseen him. Choosing to let things ride for a few minutes, she picked upher coffee and the file by the desk, before sitting down in the leather'comfy' chair, her one concession of the shoes. It had a small frame with a tiny handle, but it was still a working handgun. I wrapped it back up in the oil cloth and put it back in the little case. I took my collection of hunting knives too. That sent me back to the closet by the front door to get my pool cue case out. Hopefully I would still have money enough to play league. Shit, I forgot Monday. I'll have to call the captain and apologize. I think I have a good reason.It was near lunchtime, so I made up a couple of sandwiches and looked. Since that day I was given to my grandfathers care since I had no aunts or uncles. Grandpa always said I was too mature for my age but I didnt know what he meant by that. He was a handsome man with gray hair in his sixties and I got a little bit jealous when I saw women hitting on him, as he was my best friend. One day coming home from school with my friend Jillian who was my occasional babysitter and who was 16. She asked me if I had ever seen him naked. I giggled, -No! I wouldnt want to see.