The dispatcher told him to meet me at the plaza. He pulled into the plaza and knew I would be in the parking lot of the Hardee's with two cups of coff...e."Best damn coffee in town," I said as I sat down beside him in the passenger side of the cruiser."No my wife makes the best. So how goes it Sheriff?" he asked."Same shit different day," I said."Ain't that God's own truth. Not much ever happens on patrol, except for the excitement out at the school last week," he said."Yeah that was a trip. They will be bankrupt before they realize it is not in their interest to use it and good riddance." Good point," Mike said.Leslie and Rebecca were watching the conversation with eagerness. They were finally starting to grasp just what Adam had told them. This group was doers. They knew what they wanted to do and they had a viable plan to get there. There might be different variations but the goal was the same. Everyone listened to alternative points of view and weighed in on parts they agreed. I suspected they lived on this side of town, so seeing them regularly would be tough. My driver’s license was two years away, and then I’d need a car. But I wasn’t going to let that stop me from flirting.I pushed off the steps and swam into the deep end near the girls. They weren’t looking and I splashed all of them at once. This was met with shrieks of outrage and threats of revenge.“Bring it on!” I goaded them.The girls jumped into the water at the same time and I was terribly outnumbered.. Hundreds of plants, some exotic, some not, filled the air with the perfume of growing things. Alan looked around and smiled as he took in the beauty that he'd nurtured. Professional botanists would take a great deal of pride from having created something like this, but not Alan. From his point of view, all he'd done was provide the plants with good growing conditions and let them do the rest.Today he was feeling somewhat restless. Not uneasy -- at forty-three years old, he had a confidence in.