Under his mother's watchful eye, he munched joylessly on his breakfast before trudging out thefront door and down the sidewalk toward school.After a c...uple of hours at school, Brad realized how muchhis life was impacted by the loss of his three friends.Daniel, now Britney, was now a year too young for hismiddle school and was nowhere to be found. And now therewasn't even a partially feminized Craig to be found, sincethe fully female Kelli had apparently not been held back ayear and was now in. He said it might make it easier to talk. But that's not what happened. I think we were a little too nervous to deal with it so we mostly just drank for a while and what was said was small talk. After about an hour of steadily drinking tequila shots with beer chasers we were both feeling pretty buzzed. We were sitting together on the couch and before either of knew what was happening our legs were touching. I think that was enough to drive us both a little crazy. We turned to each other and in. "Sheriff, Sis sent me in to get you. We found something she thinks you ought to see."He went back out the door before I could give him any answer. I looked at Doris and she was smiling. Jeesh, I could see right now she wasn't going to be any help when it came to those two keeping me running. I went outside and everyone was looking in bay 2, and as I walked over to see what was going on Sandra looked at me with wide eyes."Grandpa, I don't know what to do with all of these. They look like they. Thanks again."I hung up and walked into the living room. Mom was sitting on Dad's lap. I wished they'd act their ages. "We're taking in strays again."Mom laughed. "Where's Bonny stuck this time?" Wenatchee. She says it's really coming down." Yeah, they just had a weather watch about it," Dad agreed. I looked over at the TV. They were watching 'My Best Friend's Wedding, ' and there was a banner on the bottom of the screen about road conditions."You going to go get her?" Mom asked."We'll time.