Tom's mother was upset at Veronica's death, but not to the extent Tom might have expected. She had accepted the accident as just that, a tragic unfore...een event. It was the second time they had lost a family member. Tom's father had died six years ago on a business trip to China. He had been robbed and murdered near his hotel in Shanghai. The three men were quickly captured, tried, convicted, and executed. It had been little consolation to Marion Lynch or Tom, their only child, or to Tom's. He’s 17 and came with his friends. I just happened to run into him here. He lives with his new dad and our mom. And frankly that incident soured me on Star Wars for the rest of the day, if you two ladies will have me, I’d be honored to join you. Just let me get out of the armor.’ He went into his rv and went through the arduous process of unlatching every hand welded piece of armor and then stripping out of the leather undersuit. He took a quick shower and slipped into some jeans and a. Now, as I was saying, my people have been here before. Back in the beginning of our history, there was a great empire which thought that it should be even bigger and greater. The people it attacked in one of it’s campaigns asked their neighbors for help, and those neighbors gave it.Well, the empire saw that as an excuse to invade those neighbors, too, but that didn’t go well at all. Basically, they got their heads cut off and handed to them with a ‘nice try, please try again later’.Now, the. Of course I don’t want to be rude to the cheerleaders so what the hell, I so I get up and followed her over to her yard.As we walked into the back by the pool Julie shouted to her friends “Hey everyone! Look what I found! Neighbor boy!” The girls gathered in her back yard started whooping and hollering, “Neighbor Boy! Neighbor boy!” at least for a few moments. Honestly they all sounded drunk. Then one of them spoke up and said “Hey wait a minute, we said no boyfriends!” to which Julie responded.