There was an added level of concern in her mother's voice. It had been rising steadily over the past two days. Jody sighed. She didn't like worrying h...r, but there was no way she could go with them on the trip to her brother, and there was also no way she was going to stop her mother from holding her first grandchild. Even so, it had taken some pretty fancy talking to convince both her parents that she'd be OK for a week on her own."As long as you're sure," Mother hovered at the door."I'm sure.. Whatever decisions Billy Ray makes are my decisions. It won't work if I'm out of the office and out of contact. I have full faith in Billy Ray's ability to act in my stead." You want me to take orders from Billy Ray?" No, I want you to take orders from me. Billy Ray will tell you what I want, when I'm not there to tell you myself. These aren't his orders, they're mine. He'll just inform you of them." I don't know if I'm going to like that." Billy Ray had looked away after Kyle voiced his. .. the NATION ... was being systematically looted by soil that was two miles long and half a mile wide.HOW DARE THEY!!You good people of the United States are going to have to PAY more than YOUR FAIR SHARE in TAXES to make up for the shortfall...Unless we do something about it.The vote was do something.Actually, it wasn't ... but the polling places were run by stooges, the polling booths were rigged and no one was willing to admit that they voted against it. What ever 'IT'happened to be.Spies. A week later, I went to the medical store where she was working and bought some tablets from Jyoti. While I was returning from the purchase, I stood near my bike and kept staring at her. But she looked just once and later got busy with customers.I kept going to that medical every once in a week and used to buy something. It was the sole reason to see her. After few visits, we started talking about normal things like breakfast, tea and etc.One fine day, when I asked for a tablet, she told me.