'What's wrong?' Jimmy asked helping Jodi hold Rick up and eased him back in the booth.Jodi sat on the floor between Rick's legs, caressing the side of...his face. 'He was going home and he started to fall and that's when I yelled for you, ' she replied, trying to think if she should call for an ambulance or not. She'd die if anything serious was wrong with him.'He looks like shit. There's no way in hell he should be driving.' Jimmy said knowing that Jodi was going to have to take him home. 'I'll. You should clean up after yourself." You two didn't..." No, Sara. I wanted to, but Mr. Romantic here wants it to be special." She came up behind me and put her arms around me."Yeah. I was thinking of the back seat of my car."That earned me a swat on the head. And then a kiss. She let me go and headed for the bathroom."So, Jack. Have you got something special planned for her birthday?" Oh, yeah." What are you going to do?" Uh, uh. I know how you guys talk. You'll tell Mary and the next thing. I said, “Eat up. We have to leave in fifteen minutes to be on time.” We finished eating and cleared our trays. Melissa and Paul were now a going concern with coffee and food powering them through their exhaustion from the night before.We went to church in my car making it in time for our Sunday school class. The church wasn’t large but had a nice college age class since it was the closest Methodist church to the college. Missus and Mister Draper, Gladys and Pete, were our teachers. They were. As she was a pretty girl she should be prepared to handle the attention she probably would be getting. I had also decided that I would sign her up for some martial arts classes.We used my study as classroom. I had to admit that I learned to like the lessons I was giving her, as they gave something to think about, and filled my days. It was the nights I feared.One morning I was a bit late when I entered the study. I stopped cold when I saw Alexa there with an open manilla envelope - and my gun -.