‘That old bitch still alive, anyway?’ ‘I have no idea, Carlos,’ Tim said, trying not to laugh. ‘I’ll tell you what, though. I’ll come by...practice tomorrow afternoon and sit down with you for a few minutes. We’ll see what’s wrong.’ ‘Aight, dawg,’ Carlos said, using Tim’s personal favorite nickname for himself. Every guy on the team with pigmentation in his skin called him that for some reason. ”Preciate it.’ ‘No problem,’ Tim said. ‘Now get back to your seat and send my co-pilot back up here.. He is thinking "too hot, too hot--what else can come off--take my tattoos off to get cooler." In a bottom drawer he finds something heavy, pulls it out. A set of clippers, heavy like the hand of authority, like the pair your father used to use, like the ones they use on Marines, and sheep. White shorts looks at black shorts. **** White briefs went first, and his hair dusts the floor. That left on his head forms a jet-black cap against the blue, blue of his. I decided to keep Kayla a secret from them for a while.That has been a week ago. As I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes, I realized that today was special. Kayla and I were going to go out on a date tonight; out first as a couple. The reason that we hadn’t already done so in the two weeks that we had made it official, was her father. He had kept an eye on her after she left, and didn’t let her out of the house while he was home, so we could really see each other. Whenever we got a chance, Kayla. “Anita,” she said, and I invited her over for coffee with my parents and me.But she was really tired from the traveling. Her husband was also coming up soon, and he was tired as well. So she told me she’d come some other time. We said our goodbyes and went into our respective homes. A few days passed, and Anita and her husband Rajesh started to mingle more with us.They were really great people with an open-minded personality and a great sense of humor. We would often have coffee/tea together,.