She’s a delightful girl. Treat her right.”He grinned. “You’re right. Good point.”Just then Susan walked-up. She was on her way to her usual ...riday afternoon Happy Hour at Delilah’s, probably to meet Lynn. “Oh, Susan,” I said, “This is Jackie’s boyfriend, Steve. You know, the young lady who was here this morning?”“Oh, right,” she gushed. “Jackie is such a lovely woman. She’s going to look awesome for your formal dance next week…thanks to you!”Steve accepted Susan’s compliments and then she. ‘May I go now, officer?’ she said. ‘Yes,’ Rod told her. ‘And drive safely.’ Mrs. Whitman smiled at him warmly. ‘I will, officer,’ she said. Rod watched Mrs. Whitman gracefully climb out of his cruiser, then walk to her car and get in. She smiled at him, waved, then started the engine and drove off. Rod took a deep breath and let it out. ‘Wow!’ he said. Then he called dispatch on his radio, told them he’d finished with the crash investigation and was returning to patrol. Later that day, Rod was. It always did when I used those things to load landscape business tools into the truck bed. Sometimes even the Cub Tractor had to be moved with the truck alone.I had the scooter tied down, and the ramps stored beside it, during our next hour’s drive to the holler. There were some really bad roads as we neared Lucy’s Mama’s place. I was glad that every thing was strapped down.When we parked the truck in her mother’s grassed yard, Lucy and I went inside to speak to her Mama before we unloaded the. “If your mom moves to Cincinnati, what’s your dad going to do?” I asked my girlfriend.“He’s staying here until I graduate high school and then they’ll see. I just found out about it this morning,” Brook said to explain why she hadn’t told me about it.“Are you okay?” I asked.“That my parents look like they’re breaking up?” she asked.“When you put it that way...” I let hang and then took a deep breath. “They did say there was a chance, though.”“I guess. Mom said she looked at this as a way to.