The ear bud crackled to life, ‘Tera, we can’t raise anyone on the team,’ for the first time since she met him, Nigel sounded scared and this did...nothing to assuage the feelings of foreboding that had consumed Tera since she was pulled from sleep only moments before. ‘I am on my way, will be onsite in 2 min, send back up Nigel, lots of it, I think we may have lost the mark,’ Tera said as she closed the connection. Lost the mark, it was rare that she said this phrase, losing was not something. I’ve got to take the kids to school so I’ll talk to you later.’ Our conversation ran through my head as I drove and I realized she hadn’t said a word about Dan. That was peculiar. Even though he was on the outs with the K girls, he and Jack were best friends and I knew Mary Ann loved hitting the sheets with him. Something was wrong. As I expected, Rick was more than happy to host Mary Ann’s wedding. I called her back and gave her the news. ‘That’s wonderful, sis,’ she said. ‘How much time do we. She had invited me to have dinner with her at her house and what came to mind was I cant blow this!!She took me into her house holding my hand. I helped her make dinner and than we ate she told me to grab the liquor. By the end of dinner we were laughing and kinda drunk. We started talking about our love lives she was single and I told her "I had a girlfriend but she never did anything for me sexually." She said "hold on than I got something for you" I just sat there thinking what was she. I put her books on the shelf, flipping through a couple of them, bringing back memories of my father reading to me. When I was finished, I checked Laurie. She was out for the count, looking as though she didn't have a care in the world.I left her in bed, pulling the door to as I went into the hallway. I checked the clock on the DVD player as I put the unwatched DVD in the box. Wanda should be getting here any minute. Just for the hell of it, I called Charlie's. If he stopped home before going.