” she called out.I walked slowly into the family room where David and Ashley were sitting side by side on the sofa. Ashley got up and walked around ...he sofa and gave me a hug, kissing me on the cheek.“Hey hotshot, how was your weekend?”“It was ok.” I answered.I looked over at David, he was sitting there, his hands in his lap, looking rather uncomfortable. I could see from the look on Ashley’s face, she was afraid of what my reaction to him might be. Ashley meant the whole to me, if she cared. My future was looking good I was getting out of this town, but it couldn't be fast enough. So back to graduation day I finished my speech the forty eight other students in this podunk town politely clapped. We all got our diploma's and I headed home, no parties for me I was leaving today. I packed a backpack kissed mom good-bye shook dad's hand and hit the road. Dad offered me a couple hundred bucks I turned him down as I had turned in my savings bonds from grandma this morning. So I am. "Hi, Annie, what brings you over this afternoon?" Bud asked as he noticed his daughter Beth's best friend coming through the back gate into their fenced-in yard."I was wondering if Beth was here," Annie lied, trying to pull off the deception that she was only there to visit her girlfriend."No, she's still at school; didn't you know she had some kind of school class project meeting?" Bud said, beginning to pick up on the emptiness of Annie's attempt to explain why she was there alone with him. I got the producer to offer him a role in ‘Kismet’ and he turned it down flat. He said he was going to give up acting and go to college. I’m going to take classes next spring. We won’t start shooting the second part until next fall. We’re going to go two full years between releases because the author is planning to crank out more books. What started out as a trilogy might be as many as six or seven movies all with the same lead character – me. Is that cool or what?”“I’m glad you’ve been able to.