I had found the lover of my dreams and he was also my best friend. By the time I got home I had a million plans of what I wanted to do with Ron. I was...greeted by my mother and father at the door as I arrived. My mother held an envelope in her hand.“This arrived today son.” My mother said with excitement in her voice. “You’ve been accepted to the academy in the space program. You leave in two weeks. Your father and I are so proud of you. “I don’t know how a person’s world can come crashing down. Ronnie would have been around her mother's house most of the day and she normally ate there. I assumed; you know, I never asked.I appeared to be responsible for keeping the house clean and tidy as well; Ronnie was always complaining that she was too ill or too tired.Yeah, as you can guess, I didn't figure that the marriage was going to last that long and I doubted that Ronnie did either. I thought that once the child had been born "in wedlock" then divorce wouldn't be long in coming onto the. He was supposed to clean up the department. So he demoted some and promoted some others. They even found a couple of detectives that had taken bribes to look the other way. He realized, without having to be told, that he wasn't to 'rock the boat' too much. His political savvy enabled him to satisfy the force and the 'politicos'.It was the changing political scene that had helped him become the chief. He recognized that to stay the chief he needed to keep up with that changing scene. His. He had slept through the night and felt much better for it.Sue was also up. Still wearing Jake's shirt, she had built a new fire on the remains of the old one and the coffee pot was standing close by.She saw him moving. "Matzh," she said, pointing at the fire. Jake got to his feet and went to fetch one. Then he realised that he too was just wearing a shirt. Shrugging that off, he took a match from its tin and handed it to her."Than cue," she said, smiling at him. She seemed to be getting the.