’ The four of us dressed and Mike drove us home. Nothing was said during the drive. As Mike stopped in our new garage he opened the door and said, �...�Lee’s right and we all know it.’ He helped Carol out and I helped Jenny. I held her hand until we were in the house and then I fell into my recliner and pulled Jenny into my lap. The next time I was really present to being with people it was almost dark. Jenny was crying in my lap. Mike and Carol were on the couch curled up together. I said, ‘Lee’s. “Well, boys?”“Hello, Mrs. Lancaster,” Tim said.“Hello.”“It’s a nice thing you are doing for them.”“She’s my girlfriend,” Benny said.“I had thought that they were the beards. They come across as such nice wholesome girls. You two seem so codependent on each other that it tends to raise suspicions. You don’t see one of you without the other being nearby. You can’t imagine my surprise to learn I had misjudged the whole situation.”Tim said, “Then we did our jobs well.”Benny said, “It’s not going to. But he must be important! She wondered then whether he could be the president of Eko-Klean, a man she had heard about but not yet seen. He's supposed to give a speech at dinner, this evening... Stan was walking her backward now. Her bare feet slid reluctantly across the rug until the backs of her ankles touched the mattress on the floor. Then he pushed her lush young body down onto the top of the mattress and stepped back to divest himself of his shorts, stripping them down over his thighs to. Maybe there was something to sleep learning? I wasreasonably familiar with the album, but I woke up and spontaneouslystarted singing: "Now here I go again, I see, the crystal visions. I keepmy visions to myself." I had her voice "spot on" if I do say so myself. I smiled wondering just what Fred's plans for the band were. Before noonI had "Edge of Seventeen" and "Dreams" down pat. I simply loved my newguitar. I closed my eyes and envisioned applause and accolades as I wentthrough the two songs.