’ ‘You two stand over there, because the light is really pretty good right now, and I need to get some pictures.’ My mom had this Kodak 35-mm ca...era, an old one but a very good camera, which she’d had since before I had been born. Mom took a few pictures, and then told me to get lost, that she wanted to talk to Jennifer alone. I went in the house, while Jen and mom walked down the fence line. ‘What’s up’ Mr Matthews asked me. ‘My mom’s out there, subjecting Jen to the Inquisition.’ ‘I suppose. As Diana walked into the living room, Morales caught up with Jeff to nervously ask, “did the General mean us as well?”“He said ‘everyone in the Retreat,’ and he certainly knows you and your family are here. Oh, and I didn’t get to ask. How are the chickens taking to their new home on the pocket planet?”“Uh, that’s part of what I wanted to talk about,” Morales responded with a smile. “Not only did Ship make a place that looks like their area in our cave, but she also duplicated our area as well.. She's gone; she's out, we are through and that is that. The cheating whore is history."The words were not even out of my mouth when my mother said:"I raised you as a Christian Rob and it is Christian to forgive. The poor girl made a bad mistake but she is young. She loves you and she wants your forgiveness so you can get back together."Marlene, my oldest sister chimed in with, "She does love you Rob, we can all see that and I know that you know it too. You can work through this if you will just. Even if her mother had said something, she doubted her father would have listened. Or cared. He grunted a noncommittal noise and popped open his beer. Before either could say anything else, someone yelled for James to come down to the basement. "Looks like they can't start without me." He nodded again and left. Ryan leaned against the counter. She'd never had the best relationship with her father, and it hadn't improved when she'd not only rejected sports but focused on music as her career.