I was referring of course, to her hubby, who had a solid beer gut although he was a handsome enough dude. We had never really gotten on all that well,...it wasn't that either of us didn't like the other, or even that we didn't want to get along. We just as people didn't quite click.'He's at work, something you two never seem to know anything about.' Sally snorted.Pepper was just looking around her, her face was impassive, but I saw her gaze linger on Keira once or twice, was it jealousy? I. Since football blew up, we had made a good team, but there was something holding her back. I knew the issue was me, I don't think I fully accepted the non-relationship status.Part of me wanted to push ahead and force the whole boyfriend girlfriend issue. I was pretty sure if I did, she would bail on me, but if I was just wasting my time with Tracy wouldn't I be better off finding someone else? Hell, my Mom even told us that we should break up and then get back together when we grew up. My mind. ." Robert had stammered trying torecover his point. "You're the one that put all those restrictionson her, no boys in her bedroom, not out unescorted after 10:00 p.m.and not out at all after 11:30 p.m. She can't go out with anyoneyou don't know well. Come on, why put all those restrictions inplace if you're going to let her have a friend like that AckermanKid?" Robert cried."Those aren't restrictions Robert, they're safety precautions.Believe it or not, I was young like you once too." Cindy. Undoubtedly he was still aiming for the billionaire mark now that he had just passed forty.In my opinion, his soul seemed a bit damaged as if he had spent years of his life working towards some goal that he now perceived as being of worthless. It occurred to me that Bob could use a few Sundays at the 'Church' in Lovett. Later he did begin to attend somewhat regularly, but that's another story someone else should tell.In another fascinating coincidence, Tiny found out that Bob knew Lovett very.