“ what if I said that I could change all of your grades to “A’s” I said “ well how would you do that? Your just the dean not the teacher.”...He said “ son I have A LOT of pull around here and can make things happen.” So I said “ Okay like what extra credit or like service hours?” He said “ Not exactly………… more like an oral presentation” I said “ like how?” He leaned back in his chair and said “like this you are going to come over here behind my desk while I set up this video camera to record. I'm fairly certain I heard a chorus of 'don't run through the house,'from both of our mothers - but we were already in the pool by the timeit registered. The two of us splashed around and swam in the pool forwhat seemed like all of about five minutes when Mom came out to thepool. "Tiffany, it's time to go." Do I have to?" I asked.She gave me a stern look and didn't even dignify my question with ananswer. Knowing that look, I ran upstairs real quick and changed backinto my clothes. I carried. If she were to open her eyes, she would see a poster of the college campus she was anticipating attending in fall and a bigger poster of the Baywatch lifeguard hunks from her earlier infatuations. A quiet, repeating, clinking sound must be her father’s keys and pocket coins as he walked down the hallway. Not wanting to leave the delicious world of sleep quite yet, her thoughts drifted to her usual fantasy of her secret crush. He was a fellow ‘geek freak,’ one of the few smart and shy students. She yelled at me but her attorney said it was a fair offer and she should take it. We signed the addendum and my marriage was over. After signing the final papers I looked over at Mary Ann with disdain and said, ‘By the way, I know you’re still sleeping with your old boyfriend Rob. You might want to tell him he’s going to be a daddy.’ She looked at me with one of those, ‘How do you know that?’ looks. I just walked out a free man but in my gut I knew that really wasn’t much revenge. I still.