“It’s nice here. I used to come here on weekends when I was at 29 Palms,” Mike replied.Finishing up, the married couple find a seat around the p...ol and order another round of cocktails, waiting to see if Les is going to be able to join them. Les sends Jaycee a text saying he is wrapping up and should be joining them in about 10 minutes. Jaycee responds to let him know where they are sitting, and she goes back to sipping her wine.Les arrives with drink in hand and pulls up a seat next to Jaycee,. You know, I don’t remember thinking that it was going to be this difficult to run our own business, do you?”“No I don’t.”“Well maybe we should both stop worrying. The company gained twenty percent in the last quarter, and I think we are going to have to hire another person. There is just too much work for the six of us.”“As always, you’re right.” Hutch mumbled, “I’ve been here since seven, so I guess I’ll go home. Jamie has a little league game at one. Don’t stay too long Mike. You deserve some. The dinosaur part was a huge hit; he’d never seen anything like it, and the size of the skeletons and recreations awed him. So did the age when I told him how long ago they lived. He’d thought his time jump was a big one, and of course it was, but he found millions of years to be incomprehensible.When we got to the prehistoric man section, which I thought he’d find even more fascinating, he was just ... bemused. He admired some of the flint work, but most of the rest only puzzled him. They had. I tried to wash them away as I felt guilty for letting my mind go down the path it wanted to concerning my daughter. That slippery slope got even more slick when I saw my daughter in a Forever 21 and watched the man staring at her from outside. He tried not to stare at her, but did every time she had her back to him. I could see him noticeably tense up when he watched my daughter bending over to work on her shoe laces. Oh fuck, my mind screamed as I saw exactly what he was tensing up over. .