“Hey Bro” I hear my sister’s voice echo in my car.“Hey El, what up?” I ask.“We’re having a blast” she answered. “Actually, I wanted ...o check with you if there is anything to eat at your place or if we should grab something to eat on our way back?”“Good timing” I told her, “I was just about to stop at the grocery store to buy some stuff. I thought about cooking some burgers for dinner, you girls are welcome to join me”.All I heard next was incomprehensible talking between my sister and her. " I was a bit tired. Nothing going on in the market, so I thought we could spend a little time together. Why don't you get us both a drink. Scotch, rocks, for me."She brought them in a moment later and I indicated that she sit on the arm of my chair. Being that close, I thought I could faintly smell cologne. I put my hand on her bare knee."Geri, you know I love you to bits, and would do anything for you. And I let you do pretty much anything you want, right?" Sure honey." She squirmed a bit,. I couldn't see a reason for needing to have all that money with me, but I didn't want it sitting in my empty dorm room unguarded either. Then again, if it turned out that we did need some of it, it wouldn't serve us very well taped to the bottom of a drawer in a room to which we might no longer have access.After being lowered from the same window through which I had entered my room, I walked out of the ally and into the sunshine of the remaining day. The light hit my face and I could feel the. After that he had to spend thirteen more years despairing of having any kind of life. Add to that what happened to him with that gang attack, well...” said Bea. Ava nodded.“I guess you’re right. We wanted to be there for him; but also up front with him. But I can understand why he didn’t see things that way. I can,” she said. “I’m just praying that Blake’s idea works. He’s praying it does too. Could he, we, be wasting our time? I don’t know, but I do hold out hope that this might be the time,.