Please come in and close the door," I heard from inside.I opened the front door as if to leave as Marty disappeared into the bedroom and the door shut...behind him.Slamming the front door, I quietly sneaked into my former bedroom and uncorked the peephole."Darin tells me there are some things you would like to know about," she said, walking to him. The peephole was small but I could still manage to see that his eyes were absolutely bugging out."I ... Yes ... that is..."Mom's outfit was a. “Shh! Not yet!” she hissed. “We took the photo the weekend John was with us in Kentucky, remember?” It was a posed photo of Cindy, Desi, Brittany, Sophie, and me in our costumes from the video we’d shot. It was a great photo and just came to life on the black T-shirt. Beneath it in script was written ‘Marvel & Hopkins 2020.’ It was really beautiful. “I worked with Mom and Dad last weekend to get a prototype ordered. We’ll get a stock we can sell directly when you play a concert, but mostly it’s. . Bryce Payne.”So that’s why I recognized her face! Yeah, one of those Payne’s. Supposedly, she kept a billion or two just lying around for walking about money. When her parents were murdered she inherited what must have been the largest industrial fortune on record. The Carnage’s and Rockefeller’s? Skint pikers, compared to the Paynes’. Wings wasn’t joking about finding charity and corporate financial support for the rebuilding of the Westside. She could probably write those bank checks all by. They were both busy bitching about their summerclass loads. Both of them needed to make up a couple of courses to stayon track in school."So why are you so happy?" Brad finally asked."Oh," I lied, "I guess it just makes me feel good to know I don't have toput up with school this summer." You'll be in school all right," Brad warned. "Only your new school willbe how to dodge bullets and clean latrines."Both Brad and Tommy laughed at that."Yuk it up guys," I told them. "I have no plans to go into.