Diane sat quietly on the chair, the bruise on her arm where he had grabbed and shook her hard starting to form, her eyes wide, watching the angry man ...ace back and forth, trying hard not to be noticed. Suddenly the ringing of the door bell broke his angry musings, and striding to it he pulled it open, a snarl on his face, ready to give her a piece of his mind, only to find the boyfriend standing there, his son standing holding on to his hand, the mans eyes boring into his. ‘Where’s Francesca?. The little fellow hiding behind Lisa is Tim. He's a little shy. Everyone, I'd like you to meet Ling. She is one of my mothers."When Tim peeked around his mother's leg, Ling said, "I didn't know you had a little child living here." Yes, you did," said William. He knew there was nothing about Ken and Lisa Armstrong that she didn't know. He would have been willing to bet she knew how much change was in Ken's pocket.After shooting him a look that would have withered a lesser person, Ling said,. Do you know everything involved and..." he started but I stopped him."Bill, did you see the stuff under the towel? You know I wouldn't tease you if I weren't willing to really try it", I said looking back over my shoulder. "The blue thing is... a... ummm... it's been tested!... and it works,... ummm, FITS just fine.I'm sorry you weren't there" I confessed, "But I had to know because..." I understand", he said stopping me. "I would never ask you for this, for that reason. It had to be your. . Oh shit, what's the term ... Damn, help me out Kari, your dad was a flyer."Kari said, "It's called grounding and you can't ground him because I'm operations officer and I've already grounded him except for emergencies."Irene laughed and said, "I thought of it first, even if I couldn't think of the word. All this military terminology sucks."Their argument made me laugh. I told them, "I have no intention of flying this morning. I just wanted to know whether or not I needed to go down and see if.