"Gimme that paper I need to sign." After he signed it, he looked to the guard who had stood in the room all this time. "Would you please sign as a wit...ess?"The guard had tears in his eyes as he signed it as well."Now that played-out ruby mine ain't much," Gerald said as he pushed the document back to Jason. "But Paw told me it would go to Di since I'll never see it again." We'll look into that when we get back from our honeymoon," Jason said. Sensing the scrutiny from Gerald he added, "I'll. Finger tips traced the granite counter top, a funny little girlish smile curved her pink lips…those naughty weekends.That smile faded fast as she dared to shy away, backing from it like she did the memory, letting it fade away. Turning her back the sofa confronted her, a memory of books and lazy touches, then the laughter…his children watching a movie, she could almost smell the burned pop corn in the air, the aroma so real it burned her eyes. The corduroy of the couch brushed at her fingers,. They had met on a chat site and quickly became fast friends. Chats led to exchanging emails. Emails led to steamy FaceTime sessions which led to hot phone sex and eventually plans to finally meet. Tory was flying in tonight from Australia yet the girls had been separated by more than just miles. They had met smack in the middle of the world wide Covid Pandemic and they both suffered silently while the lock downs were enforced. The virus had finally been contained and the world governments. ’ It fell flat as Christy Thomas’ chest. The great ape had been with her all day. So during the next pause in conversation she asked, ‘How did Christy manage to occupy you all day?’ ‘She was tremendously informative. She answered my questions about staff deployment and management, what training and job backups were in place and after we had lunch at the yacht club we built a multi-dimensional model of the company in operational mode.’ ‘The yacht club?’ ‘Ah yes, I transferred my membership here.