Behind the rock was a grassy knoll that overlooked the ocean. They sat down next to each other. David put his arm around his mother."What's going to h...ppen when we get home?" he asked."Roland is going to jail along with a lot of other people." No, I mean with ... you know us?"Amanda was silent as she looked out at the blue Mediterranean. "I don't know," she whispered. "I've thought about it and keep coming to the same conclusion." She paused and looked at her son. Then she continued. "What we. Finals were going to be next week. I spent most of my free time working in my books studying when I wasn't doing my homework. Life was sure getting singled focused fast.Saturday rolled around and my kids grabbed me and informed me that I only had an hour in the office."What are you talking about?"Becky spoke first, "We are getting you out of this house for a while. You're going to take us to the camp for the weekend."Robbie then added in, "Yeah, I've been told that if you resist, we are to drag. He plowed through the week and in one of his few magnanimous spells, postponed all the work that he had originally scheduled to be due on Friday until the next Monday. The kids were overjoyed since he never cut them any slack when it came to schoolwork.During that time, he only briefly spoke to Ann Marie. They flirted a little, but were otherwise professional to the point that it seemed like they were ignoring each other.When the final bell rang on Friday afternoon, most of the people in the. "I need exercise" was the longest sentence he'd said to me, so we went to the community health center on a one-day resident pass. We played some basketball, where I got picked last - again - just like high school. His eye hand coordination was quite good, and he knew how and where to play good defense. His team beat ours, on a last second shot that he made. I was simultaneously humiliated and proud.Zeke wanted to cool off in the pool. 'Like the quarry back home.' By that, he meant to exercise.