' I shuddered and wondered if she had witnessed the spectacle of the teams initiation sequence, I decided to play it off and find out what she knew. ...Gloria you know we don't have any secrets about practice, anybody in the school can watch,' I said. Gloria winked and said 'I don't think any of you are fast enough to catch me.' Without a second word I reached out quickly and grabbed hold of her arm. 'See, you ain't that fast,' I said. To my surprise Gloria didn't try to pull away, she just. ” She listened for a very short time, then seemed to interrupt Dad with, “Charlie, it’s all right. Stay there, get a good night’s sleep and we’ll see you in the morning.”The conversation lasted for another couple minutes, with both Moms getting short lovey-dovey good-nights with Dad. Once we got the word from Sandy about Gracey, we three girls went to bed, our minds relieved. We celebrated by exhausting each other.I woke this morning to Heather snuggling more tightly into me. When I turned. “I think we need to talk about last nite.” He said after a little thought.Kumiko sat up too and turned to him. “Oh,” Kumiko said, “Don’t worry about that.”“Huh?”Kumiko looked Jake in the eyes and paused for a second. “I don’t mind what happened. And in fact, I have wanted you for a few years.”Jake knew that the stunned look on his face might have looked hilarious had he not been in his current situation but he could not believe his ears. “What do you mean? Then why were you always so mean to. Dad took a sip from his bottle just before we got there and this seemed to help. We waited in line for two minutes and dad had to have another nip then we were at the barrier. He was very relieved to just pay a toll. I said nothing till he found that he had to go through the inspection at the other side.Dad gave out his papers after he said who he was and who we were. Then the McCarthyism came out and we were asked if we were ever members of the Communist Party or any other subversive group..