She heard a motorcycle pull in the driveway as she skimmed the want ads. She got up to see who is was."Hey Wendy!" Chad yelled as he revved the engine... "Like my new toy?" It's nice, but loud enough to wake the dead!" she shouted back."Hop on!" he said smiling."Come in for a minute." she said walking back inside.Chad shut off the bike and went inside. He grabbed a beer out of the fridge."Beer already?" Wendy asked looking at the clock.They had been friends for years and this was no surprise to. He had the discernment to see that Matthews was the, uh, the 'cancer.'" Well, he put me to shame in some ways. He has suffered for almost as long as I have," Caz said.Julia looked at Caz for a long moment for asking "Ever wish he really was your son?" Are you going to send me a bill for a session, now?" Caz joked. "That was surely your shrink side asking, wasn't it? To answer your question, let's just say that Cy has helped to, um, highlight the kind of things I have missed in my life."You. To his way of thinking it was all Anna’s fault.“Are you okay, Mom?”It was Mike and Anna’s ten year old daughter, Kayla. She and her little sister Gretchen had tiptoed back up the stairs at the slam of the door which had signaled the end of the private “discussion” between their parents. Both girls threw their arms around their mother as all three melted into tears together on the couch.“We’re going to be okay, girls,” Anna stated with all the resolve she could muster. “Dad doesn’t have to live. Then I spent the next three hours going over e-mails and responding to them.The athletic department was finally getting back to me with a list of the on the road sports events they wanted us to provide security on. It had been so long that I had thought that they had changed their minds. They did not include a list of the transportation companies involved. They wanted security on the trips starting with the first one on January 15. That was six weeks away with two weeks of vacations thrown in..