" I hesitated; afraid I would laugh at the absurdity of rules being so fucking important."Yes, Mr. Oldham?" Every kid has played touch football," I sa...d, stopping before I broke up laughing."This isn't touch, its flag football," Doctor Mercer said, excitedly opening a desk drawer. He offered me a single sheet of paper. "Study the rules and be ready to play, Mr. Oldham. I assure you that you won't start the game but I'll put you in if your classmates don't lynch you first."I suppose he expected. What do you want I am busy.” Thomas said.“Yes I heard,” Esmeralda stated coolly. “disabled, unable to fire, against such a small ship.”The look on Thomas face went from a sneer to sheer, enraged, anger. “Look Mother! She has advanced that piece of shit, of a ship far more, than we BOTH thought. Believe me it will NOT happen again.”Esmeralda sniffed a moment then said, “see that it doesn’t, she is all that stands between us and the galaxy. She has to die before she finds out what we have been up. . Um well where is the reading room ?"Miranda looked at her questioningly "Um yes this way, It's got a private area where you can look at it without being disturbed" Oh well aren't you the least bit intreged ?, I was hoping you'd take a look with me" Vanessa asked with a slight glint and a smile "W-well I am a bit busy!" Miranda replied ..."Oh please do come and look for yourself, I wouldn't want you to think that I'd take the book without you knowing, and besides aren't you the slightest bit. “I better be going,” Merry said. “Sam will be back from the game in a little bit and, well, you know.” She went up on the porch, edged her way around Marge and went through the house to go home.Once more, Marge tried to take the high ground. “Your peter is still hanging out. You want to put it away?”“What do you want?” he demanded. He left it hang out.“Well I thought we might put our little differences aside and try to reconcile our differences. Now, after watching you cheat with our next door.