We found ourselves back at the patio. Helen and Marie went straight for the pool. The guys found lounges to relax in to watch as the youngest women fr...licked and giggled in their play. Carlos was smiling. One of those contented smiles. How long has it been since this place has had this kind of abandoned giggling and frolicking? Too long. This was wonderful … and this was going to be his new life.Mom and I went to the kitchen, almost unnoticed. It was already nearly noon. The morning had been. . I'm sorry. I wasn't implying anything other than ... aw shit ... I don't know what I was trying to say except when I look at you, I see a beautiful woman who's way out of my league."I don't exactly know what I said that put a stop to her being angry with me. She walked over to me and draped her arms over my shoulders and gave me a hell of a kiss. No tongue, mind you, but a hell of a kiss."Do I have to hit you over the head with a brick to make you understand?" she said softly, her eyes boring. Mrs Watkins opened up the note and read it then folded it again and proceeded to warble on about shakespeare as the picked her way through the rows of desks towards Kelly and I, she stopped in front of me in mid sentence and handed me the piece of paper which I in turned opened as she kept on in her story telling of Romeo and Juliet's tragic romance. As I looked at it the note read "Violet Murray, please report to Mr Mannings office at the end of this period." I wondered instantly what the. This led him to wanting some external influence or factor to make the choice for him, but even here he ran out of luck. His parents had much more patience and faith in their son than did the others, so they didn’t feel strongly one way or the other. He asked his father and mother, together and separately, on many different occasions, but their reply would always be more or less the same. “It’s up to you.”Likewise, because his friends were in the exact same situation as he was, they all had some.