A man was flirting with awoman, while two elderly women were sitting on the side and gossipingabout what appeared to be their grand kids."It's too rea...," I mused.Then I turned my attention back to the street that was right in front ofme, or more specifically, to the glowing red line that was stretched outright down the middle of the street. That was the dividing point... theboundary between two Zones.I watched as people crossed the sidewalk, walking straight through thered line without. I somehow knew this wouldn’t be the last time something like that would happen, i wasn’t to wait much longer to find outIt was three weeks later when i made sure i was about when sue came for her daily routine looking after mum , sue seem very pleased to see me again, once again she went straight up stairs to mother, i could hear her chatting to mother even if mother couldn’t chat back, but i heared what i was hoping tohera“would you like your lovely son to help us wash you again?” my heart. We knocked down the fire almost completely and allowed it to flame up again for the teams behind us. I learned quite a few tricks of the trade from Barry. He was a great partner and we really hit it off. We were in synch with each other from the beginning. It was a blast but also an intense and physically exhausting day. At the end of our training, we rolled back to our station cleaned all the hoses and washed down all the trucks. Those staying at the station that night were doing dinner there. But when he wakes up, he'll have something to remember me by..."Keeping our heads down, we walked briskly out of the hospital. As expected we were able to do this totally unchallenged. In the car park was a large Volvo with darkened windows. One of the goons respectfully held open a rear door and I helped Mr Foster in before joining him in the back. Both men clambered into the front and, without fuss and well within the speed limit, we pulled away from the hospital grounds.As the car travelled.