She could probably be in contention for valedictorian if she had any kind of support from home. You know how gifted Lily Woodard is on the baseball mo...nd-well, Natalie's that gifted in the classroom. But she has no friends, no support system, no nothing. She's completely closed off from everything. We don't completely know what her home life is like, but we strongly suspect it's not good. Quite frankly, we-that's me and her teachers and all-are afraid we're going to lose her." Yeah, I see what. Margie popped head and torso out from the hill of flesh cute as a prairie dog from its hole, ejecting herself from the bed like a cork from champagne, and took Joe's hand. "Let's wash each other's backs, shall we?" Margie, you hardly slept the night before." But remember when you came to bed last night? Guess who you woke up?"Joe chuckled. "So revenge had you waking all your sisters when you came this morning." It's that great big bolt of yours pounding out room in my little hole, boring it. "I take it you got in then. Both of you?" Came the low voice of Sam who had just exited the building. I think that's when Jess realised she could have just opened her results with the wrong person. She immediately withdrew the hug and stepped back. There was an awkward silence for a few seconds before she regained her composure and walked towards him."Yeah Sam, I'm going to Durham isn't it great?" She asked, slightly unsure of herself and pulling him into a hug of his own. He looked over her. ” I smiled and told her, “That’s just because you haven’t had to live with those negatives. You are welcome to your opinion about it. Heck, you’re welcome to have any of them ... I’m sure I could get Mom to agree to farm some of them out.”We were both still laughing about that when the food arrived. My food was every bit as good as I remembered. I shared bites of everything on my plate with Kim, and she shared hers as well. All of it was fabulous and we had a wonderful meal. Kim agreed with me.