Liam looked over to the doorway, removed the towel and ice from his eye, and explained, "I needed to protect myself, Officer. He hit me first; it's se...f-defense." A little Irish twinkle shone from his eyes."No doubt," muttered Dennis. He knelt down beside Chris and began reading him his rights just as backup appeared at Liam's door. The paramedics arrived right behind them. Dennis briefed the officers while Liam tried to comfort Gina in a corner of his living room away from Chris.One of the. " What?" Gem."All three of us jumped up and sprinted after Haden, who'd already left to return to his stricken partner. Drenched with sweat, Gem was clearly in a lot of pain, judging by the noise she was making. Vanessa took control, having witnessed many births in the city. Thinking that it was the correct procedure, I placed a pan of water onto the electric hob, another convenience that Darian had succeeded in implementing.Teel secured the medical diagnostic unit to Gem's arm and after a few. No biggie. We packed and took off.The cruise line treated me like a king. In the wheelchair, we bypassed all the lines and went right into our cabin. Very cool. Except I was tired. Tiffany was all excited to see the ship. I took a nap. Not so much fun for her.That night, we went to a nautical themed piano bar and listened to oldies from our era. Really fun, but guess who ran out of energy. I left Tiffany to enjoy the show and returned to the cabin to sleep.Tiffany is middle aged, but she has. Instead we head straight for her school and her big night. When we got inside the schools gym, we made our way over to fourth row of tables were her girl friends were already sitting with their dates. Di introduced me to them as we sat down. Hi guys, this is Joe my friend from back home. He came into town just to bring me tonight. Hi Joe it’s good to meet you, I’m Cindy and this is Larry, that’s Mary Ellen and her date Greg and that’s Sue and James on the end. .