Steve, Billy, and Gwen were awarded medals and made honorary members of the company. When the fire company finished, the principal gave a brief speech...about how the school had benefited from good publicity in the past few weeks. The school and its students were making state and national news for positive accomplishments. That was every school's goal and Sparta was doing it far better than any other school in the state.When Steve and Gwen walked past the school trophy case, they had to stop and. I sat back down again looking forward to the pleasure she was about to give me. As soon as I sat down she pounced using every trick she knew, and it wasn't long before I I could feel the almost uncontrollable tingling, the tightening of my balls and then she did the cruelest thing ... she moved her head, sat straight up and turned to watch the TV. It was her turn to play it cool and started to tell me what was happening in the film. Eventually I calmed down enough to concentrate, thought to. Idid not tell any of my friends what was about to happen, in the offchance that I could talk Mom out of this, or I didn't look quite asnice as she thinks I will. I wasn't on pins and needles about iteither, but the thought never left my mind. On the last day of schoolI was home before noon, and Mom wasn't there, so I flicked on thetelevision and lounged on the couch, confident she had forgotten abouther threat. I should have known better. That fact that I was the samesize as my sister should. For the last couple weeks, his daughter had been avoiding his calls, making up excuse after excuse. He asked what was wrong several times, but she said she was just busy. Scared to death to lose their relationship, he unexpectedly flew out to see her.“D-Dad? What are you doing here?” Her eyes went wide as she looked at him in her doorway. “Is everything okay?”“I thought things were, but apparently not.” He watched her confused face. “What’s going on, Kelly? If you don’t want to talk to me.