" I can finish up," Rena said. She whispered in my ear. "Go sit with Mom. Flirt with her." I nodded although I wasn't sure what I was going to do....Let's go sit in the den, Mom." I grabbed her hand and she let me lead her. We had a reasonable amount of privacy there. We sat down on a love seat. I placed my hand around her shoulders. I let my free hand drape on her thigh. We were seated together like lovers, but Mom seemed oblivious."Please tell me this is some kind of a joke you two. What do you think?" Gee, I don't know, Aaron. I'm pretty busy now with school and working here and all. I'm not sure when I could find the time." Yeah, I thought about that. Look, Wednesday's your last day of school before the holidays, isn't it?" Yeah.'"Well, after that, I've got you scheduled to work from one 'til closing. My apartment is right above the store so I thought you could model from noon 'til one then go right to work. I've got a room set up for my artwork. Marvin can handle the. V1 had complained that ‘they weren’t teaching kids’ in school these days. I was beginning to change my opinion about that. To my V3 mind, the curriculum was more advanced as a freshman than it had been the first time around. Molly was helping me. Francie was helping me. I was looking forward to going back to school and learning something new.I had another thing on my mind that was causing me to lose sleep at night. Apparently, I was going to have plenty of nights alone to lose sleep during.. Joseph nodded. "What do you mean the Miller?" I told you I liked reading rags to riches stories. This one I read, one of those overwrought Victorian sagas from the late 19th century that makes you skeptical concerned the Henry Miller Legacy written by a black sheep sinner, the youngest brother of Heinrich Mueller, who attained salvation via a good Christian wife who happened to be his second cousin. His tales of business intrigue interested me, and the fact that the company still exists and is.