”“Major Pittsenbargar then. Would you like something to drink?”“Thank you, but I have coffee.” He sat, and spread out his writing materials....While Mrs. Barie waited for him to begin, he opened his thermos. “I’d offer you a cup,” he said, “but it isn’t fresh.” There also wasn’t enough to fill his thermos cup, and it was cold.Mrs. Barie noticed his grimace. She stepped over to him and held out her hand. “Give me your thermos, I’ll refill it.”Bemused at her no-nonsense command, he passed her his. Laura knew was her fault and she decided her mom was right. But now?? She knew she just told her some thing terrible. “Laura, I am sorry. For everything. We love you. You shouldn’t be there. I mean, we did , me and your dad, everything for protect you. We didn’t want you could know about it. Maybe yes but surely not now. We wanted wait some years. Wait until you could be much.. mature, much .. much woman.. it’s the right word.” Francesca waited her daughter’s reply but Laura didn’t talk. She. Keise brought some snorkel gear on Thursday because Erin wanted to look at what was causing the waves to form. It wasn’t interesting to me, so I begged off.It was almost flat calm, no surfing, when they went snorkeling. I went out to about 8ft of water and was bouncing off the bottom and treading water. I lost track of them and decided to head in.Once I could stand, I looked to see if anyone was messing with our stuff when all of a sudden, my shorts were around my ankles. Guess I should have. It seemed that everyone was ready to go and looking forward with hope toward the future.I talked with Ed and Bert. They took on some the luggage in my car clearing space for Tom, Brit, and Sam to ride with us. Ed and Bert led out with Laura and I and the teens in my car followed by the rest. We went north to I-20 and then east. They exited before Augusta and we followed them down a ways to a smaller road and then to a grouping of homes. They pulled in front of one and stopped. We all gathered.