As she moved to close it, he turned and before she could push the door shut on him he spoke.' 'I'm not a boy, Mrs. Cranfield, I'm a man.'And he had go...e... ... She looked at her watch. It had been an hour and ten minutes since he had left. What if he didn't come back? What if he had become frightened and had run away?'I shouldn't have said anything about telling his mother', she thought., 'What am I going to say if he does something stupid?'The sound of the doorbell caused her to jump. And her. To my surprised she had opened a bottle of wine. Our conversation was easy and centred around football and school. When we finished I cleared away and stacked the dished in the dishwasher whilst mom took the wine glasses and the remains of the bottle through to the lounge.As I finished clearing away I heard her go upstairs and into her bedroom, I went on through to the lounge with the intention of watching some TV but to my surprise I found the curtains drawn and a video set up.Mom came back. All the other claimants I’ve met have been braggarts and looking forward to money, fame, or both. Their only interest was in themselves.“A few of them even seemed to have some ability to discern danger, but the ability seemed to be fleeting and didn’t last very long. I’ve already heard about everything you and your family do for charities in the area. I even have reports from other states between Texas and Florida of a hunter on a fancy grav sled dropping off feral pigs to various charities,. 00 oclock” he said, “in the morning?” I asked, “yes, why, have you somewhere to be, are you meeting your friend for lunch or something” he quipped, I slapped him gently on his bare back, Julia got out of bed, “shall I order breakfast” she said, “you’d better, we need to get some food into her to soak up all that acid, she smells like a brewery, goodness knows what she has been drinking” he said as Julia went into the lounge, “I’ve never seen her like that before, dad is the one who drinks, mum.