“That was the best thing I ever felt in my whole life.”To give Bob the credit, he tried to gross her out.“Okay, tell you what. I’ll let you se... it, if you promise to suck it.”Her eyes stared into his. She licked her lips.“Okay.”“Don’t play with me, little girl.” he said, not believing her.“There’s no campfire around.” she said. “You can’t lie if there’s no campfire.”He stared at her. He realized they were looking at each other with moonlight, now. The sun had gone down while they ... negotiated. I thought it over. I hadn?t flown for almost a month. I tried to stay current, but we had been busy lately, and I had only been flying when the Company needed somebody hauled to St. Louis. Jim had been getting most of the longer trips. Since we received the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (NMRS), I was kept busy running samples. Yeah, I could use the practice?So? You wanna sleep all day, or go to Tulsa?? Jim asked again.?OK. I?ll go,? I replied.?Great. Be at the hanger at. It was about Cindy and her safety.He walked into the house, hiding his face by keeping it to the darkness along the stairs as he made his way up to his bedroom. But his luck, as it was for most of the day, was not with him as his Mother called out, “Henry, your home early. Come here and help set the dinner table please.”He was done for. Nothing to do now except get it over with. He took a deep breath and headed to the kitchen. His Dad was sitting at the table reading the newspaper as his Mother. "Cindy, you must know that I love both you and Paul equally. For a few months in the past when you first arrived here you and Paul were separated and it might have been a good thing if you had remained that way. Paul would have died on the vine so-to-speak. I think now he is about as happy as he can be. Sally is happy and he must at some level feel that."I know he loves me and probably you as well. Your mother too, because it was she who first gave him a way to entertain himself by teaching him.