“.. Just please don’t tell them. They will kick me out!” I begged. I put my palm to my forehead. “I would think you would be a little more gra...eful that you had this opportunity to obtain a private education.” He leaned back and crossed one leg over the other. “I didn’t realize I had slipped so …. I-I’ll…” I stammered thinking about how disappointed my parents would be, they were ultra strict. They send my oldest brother to boarding school at 16, and my older sister got pregnant at age 17 and. But then again, Teddy's the guy. Isn't it HIS job to come find ME?Should I just stay in my office and wait to see if he visits me? I didn't have any tests planned for a couple of days, so there was no reason for me either to be in the labs or to go to the stockroom for supplies. But how could I work, constantly wondering when he's going to come knock on the door?[knock, knock]Oh, shit.I looked up, sighing in obvious relief to see Stella standing in the doorway, looking perky and cute as. All the reading he'd done compared it to the Macintosh OS. He couldn't wait.Bob told him to shut it down for the meeting, and he grudgingly turned off the computer. With the girls on the couch, and Rob in the recliner, Andrew got stuck in his least favorite chair, the straight back Queen Anne side chair. Oh well, hopefully this meeting would be short, and he could go back to the gaming chair."Well, what's up, Daddy?" Rebecca asked.Not that she was interested or anything. She usually skipped. "Seems we need a different place to live."It had been a crazy day for the four friends. The four, all from a mostly black neighborhood, which hadn't had the best reputation in the past, knew each other since their childhood. And while they all headed in different directions after school, Ty and Jerome joining the college football team, while Alex was studying law and Mike nature sciences, they had moved in together. Mike had set up a little lab in the cellar and suddenly today, there had been a.