"Hey, Debbie, wass happenin'?" one of the guys said putting his arm around me. I quickly felt a hand from the other side touch my leg."Nothing," I sai... shoveling a fork full of Mac and cheese in my mouth."Wanna hook up when you're done?" I looked up from my plate to see there were two guys sitting to my left and one to my right. Across the table sat three others and all were staring at me."Can't. Don't have time," I said taking a bite out of something that resembled sliced turkey breast."Sure. He lived in the house behind mine for the last few weeks of the school holidays and he was still the extremely shy and reticent Ernie I’d previously come to know and love. The genius recluse who could always help me find a solution to a problem, the same boy who would walk several blocks to avoid a crowd of people, the same boy who had panic attacks when he became the focus of attention of any group larger than five and it included more than two people who weren’t close family. The same boy who. It took 11 plays, but Ashford managed a touchdown and PAT. The score was 7-0, Ashford.The crowd was really pumped up when Tag led the offense onto the field after the kickoff. The ball was on the 20 yard line as a result of a touchback, so he had 80 yards to go for a touchdown. The crowd was in the mood for great things, but they were disappointed. On the first Tiger play from scrimmage, the Fullback fumbled the ball as he ran into the line. All of a sudden, Ashford had the ball on the Tiger 21. In fact, on the Saturday that had just gone by, there'd been an impromptu working bee. His family, Lisa and Janine, Joe and a couple of others had popped by to look over the work that was required, and they'd ended up spending a couple of hours cleaning and investigating.Without question, the biggest problem was the floor in the bathroom. At least the shower base was leaking, if not the taps as well, and the floor was quite rotten. It looked like there was a good chance that the shower base.