"Dale studied Patrick for a moment pleased to see that William had been correct. He said, "You're not too happy about that." Not really," Patrick answ...red. He didn't want to complain. His father was working hard to improve the standard of living for the entire family and life was getting better. Opportunities were opening up for him. He stared off at the horizon and added, "It does bother me a bit. I'd like to get out and see the world. I feel trapped here on the reservation."Dale and William. ..busy or...guess maybe...because I didn't hear from you, you didn't want to hear from me." I did talk to your mother a number of times." Yes, I know. She told me how you convinced her you were good enough for me," she said.I wondered how much her mother had told her. I asked, "Did she convince you?" At that point I thought that her mother may have told her too much about what I had had to do to convince her because a strange look appeared in her eyes. The bell rang and we each went in. Picking it up before anyone else noticed I looked at the note which was written in very familiar curly pink handwriting that told me to be in the last stall of the boys bathroom at 3 30 and hat if I was there I would get a nice surprise but that if I was late I would miss it. I was so keen that I was there at 3 25 so I locked myself in the second to last stall and waited. All the while trying to remember where I had seen that handwriting. Well sure enough on the stroke of half 3 a pair of shoes. ” “Can,t see you as a pilot!” Bert laughed. “Not everyone in the Air Force is a Pilot” John reasoned and Bert agreed. The discussion on John finished Bert told John how nice his room in the dormitory in Brookings was and how many girls he,d seen the day he went to be shown around with his parents, his sister in her final year at North Dakota State in Fargo having broken up with her ex fiancée.At the time she,d been fucking Bert, but John Didn,t know that as Bert kept it to him self and it would.