Finding with and additional grunt, the belt already occupied its tightest notch.Holding his trousers up, best that he could, Nobuyuki attempted, yet a...ain to take a step the living rooms direction.This time halting for entirely different reasons. he heard voices!Mildly reversing direction, moving stealthily as possible, he paused peering round that end of the stairs.Recognizing ... but somehow unable to identify the young woman he saw kneeling in the dining area!The gentleman to whom she was. Usually we had the balcony to ourselves but that afternoon it was almost full of young couples. It was understood that the balcony was for lovers so the older, more reserved moviegoers avoided it. Couples sat in the balcony to make out, to indulge in some heavy petting, not to watch the movie. They were young couples that had no where else to go to have a little freedom. The movie came on, an old Julie Robert's movie, "Pretty Woman."They had lovers in mind when they designed the balcony seating. If you put all their brains together, you still couldn’t get a high school diploma worth’s of intelligence out of them. All except for April. She’s the whole package, pretty and smart. That is until she gets with her family. The fucking idiots have no limits to the grief they give me.It’s generally innocent stuff, but sometimes they go too damn far. The worst was a prank call about my mother being killed in a car wreck which forced me to leave merger talks to fly home. My mother is my last. "Inasmuch as Tea Parties had led to a half-day suspension, Kirk, being arecently-minted teenager, had no choice but to attend one. With luck,Mr. Tingle would see him on television. Now that would be choiceindeed! It was easy to persuade Laird to take him to a Tea Party, asLaird, who hadn't voted since Ross Perot lost his third-party bid, hadnever heard of the T.P. phenomenon. Laird readily bought theexplanation that Kirk was expected to attend and report on a Tea Partyas a Social Studies.