” Obviously my cousin was none the wiser because he was carrying on with Danny as they rolled into the store. “How’d the trip go?” I asked, av...iding making eye contact, closing up the cooler and stepping over to a box of random lurers that needed sorting and hung with the inventory along the wall.“They were mostly just out for a ride on a boat. It happens.” The pair of them leaned up against the counter next to each other. “When you closing up?” Tripp asked me.“Aren’t you the boss?” I finally. The objection is sustained. Ms. Granger, you may rephrase the question or move along."Allyson nodded and looked at her notes."Mr. Currence, did Mr. Mayfield do anything out of the ordinary in regard to Miss Brockleman?" she asked."Very little of what he did in that regard was what I would consider 'ordinary'," Currence answered."Can you give us an example?" Allyson asked."He insisted that we – he, Trevor, Joey and me – arrange our schedule so that one of us was in every class with her,". I certainly didn't wish our number four starter, a lefthander named Paco Montoya, any ill fortune that day, but somebody must have put the hex on him, because he had nothing, right from the start.By the bottom of the fourth inning Montoya and the Naranjeros were down, 6-1, and when the Eagles' leadoff hitter for that inning doubled to right, Manuel went out to the mound and sent Paco packing. I had been warming up on the sideline bullpen and I was called into the game to face the five-six-seven. When I recovered from all the knots and bumps from her favorite iron skillet, she would still be boss in the house. But I would have at least let her know how I felt about the whole thing. She had already chased me out of the house when I first came over here because I told her she didn't know how to cook chicken like we Frenchmen did. As she was chasing me with the skillet, she hit me and reminded me after each bang that I wasn't in France now, and that this was the South. If I didn't like it,.