After what seemed an eternity, the festivities got under way.The tests weren't spectacular from where I was sitting, but I knew it would be an eye ope...er for the group crowded around the radar control set up. It was being manned by one of their people, and I knew they would have the best person they could get. After a few minutes the drone came silently whisking overhead, and you could see a commotion among the group at the radar station. From their excited body language, my guess was that no. .. weeks before the wedding! When we started dating, she told me about several workmates of hers, young black hustlers, that would hit on her daily! She seemed to enjoy telling me how she'd pretend to be thinking about "one last fling” & how it teased them into a frenzy! They were really pressuring her to go with them to a clubs after work, for a few drinks, and dancing. When she told me that other girls would be there, I said "I can see that you like the “naughty attention” they. The next morning, being Thanksgiving, she put her nightgown back on and claimed to be down in his room to wake him to watch the Macys Parade on TV. Everything was going along well for them until a week before Christmas when Eric made a crucial mistake. He got careless and left the condom wrapper on the bathroom floor when it missed the trashcan. His dad happened to be downstairs in his tool room when he used the restroom and saw it. He had quickly realized his son was having sex, but didnt. “But my car is in the mechanic workshop, and I was working on a paper at the library — it’s due on Friday, before second semester Break, and I’m kind of struggling with it.”“Really? What’s your topic?” Ifeoma rolled her eyes. “comparative analysis of Wole Soyinkas works and that of Chinua Achebe on their views of the future .” “Wow,” Nnamdi said, nodding thoughtfully.“Ambitious undertaking.”“Yeah, but I may have bit off more than I could chew this time.” She polished the waterdrops off of her.