" Could be," Judy agreed with a grin. In short order they had cleared the bar.Dan was not sitting at the table but was nearby when Carol returned from...the ladies room. She looked pale and upset when she didn't see her friends."Carol, what are you still doing here," exclaimed Dan, pretending surprise at seeing come back again. "I thought you had left with Judy and the others." Damn. Well, we live in different directions anyway. I'll just call a cab." I don't understand. Why doesn't your husband. ”“Settle down, Jake. I’m sorry I said anything.”“If you want this, I think you should try especially hard to treat Carol like the good person that she is.”“Sure, Jake. I’m sorry.”“So do you agree to those three conditions?”“I do,” Gil said.“Me, too,” Jason said.“I’ll see if Carol can come over. If you want her today, you can. Otherwise, I’ll do her.”“Today would be great,” Gil said.Jake picked up the phone and called his grandparents’ house. He spoke to Carol who agreed to come over.“Let me ask. I managed to dodge and slip by tacklers until I hit a wall of bodies at the thirty yard line. To my surprise, I stayed lined up on the weak side instead of the slot. Zack commanded another brilliant drive, spreading the defense out and gobbling up yardage. I capped the drive off with a catch in the corner of the end zone for our second touchdown.The White offense went three plays and out. Coach Ferguson had Jared Cantrell take the next punt. I lined up in the backfield beside him, ready to help. The few I could make out I couldn't respond to because there was too much noise and the girls weren't paying attention. Toward the fifteen-minute mark I corrected one of the half-sobbed comments with, "Don't think of it as me dying. My mind will still be fully alive and active. I'm just going on a very long journey, is all." It didn't help much, but perhaps fractionally more than "There, there" would have. Maybe if I repeated it twenty or thirty times it might sink in.Prof showed me how to do.