I finally caught up to her on the side walk and we started talking about what we were doing that weekend she said she was just going to stay in and be...boring so I invited her to a party my brother was putting on in charlotte as he went to school there. She just nodded and said “I’ll think about it”Friday came, I had two classes that day and was done by one so I went home and texted her asking if she was still on for tonight. About ten minutes later I got a text that said “No im having a bad day. Then beyond the foyer was a corridor with my office on the right: a large, elegant room with high ceilings, solid wood floor, an ornate fireplace and sash windows on three sides. Finally, on the opposite side of the corridor were several small storerooms, a kitchen, and a recently built lift down to the new top secret bunker.We had executed a little subterfuge at the end of the summer, erecting a massive scaffold tent over the ageing outdoor pool supposedly so we could refurbish it while. I’m going to try to convince her to come back tonight but I don’t think she will,” I begin and Bethany is quick to speak. “Dad, Mom and I have plans tomorrow,” she says and my look says my response for me but I will make this redundant. “You had plans tomorrow; those have been cancelled by me because I love my family. I love every member of my family and I have been a very poor parent,” I say the words, it hurts but it is the truth. “Dad you are not a bad father,” Abigail, my jewel of a. Now he grows vegetables for supermarket chains. He also patented a new soil analyzer that robotically moves around a field testing and sending data back to a computer system. The information gets fed into a GPS controlled fertilizer tractor that automatically adjusts the chemical concentrations of the fertilizer to exact need.”“Your father sounds like a brilliant man; what about your mother?”“My mother was a debutante like me, she has a law degree, but never practiced. She runs the family.