Joe was in a discussion with one of the running backs about the need of the Hail Mary to stay in the books even if it was so old, a tap on his shoulde... made him look up, it was Maryse’s dad. He handed him car keys and leaned closer to get heard over the music,“We’re heading home, you can take the car home after dropping off Reese. I will get it from you tomorrow.”Joe nodded and took the keys, slipping them into his jacket pocket, Maryse leaned over when her dad left,“What was that?”“He gave me. ”Carl replied, “They just got done dancing next door, and decided to go off with a group of guys.”“Lucky them,” she said. With a sly smile, she asked us, “You boys here for the booths to get a little relief?”Carl and I looked at each other, and I piped up, “Yes we are. Twenty dollars worth of tokens each, please.”Marybeth rang us up. “The booths are pretty busy tonight. Saturday night, you know. I’m positive you boys will have fun. Gladys is back there now, but her break is almost over.” . "-----=== Two years ago ===It hadn't been so bad when the genies first arrived. There was somesuspicion about their intentions at first, but after a while all but themost paranoid accepted that they hadn't come all this way to conquerEarth, not when they had plenty of terraformable (or wherever-formable)planets much closer to home. They wanted to help, they said, and afterthey granted our first few "wishes", most of us believed them.They'd fixed global warming, to start with, by scattering. I was in my room at the hotel watching tv when the telephone rang, it was Maria “where are you she said” sounding sorry for herself, “where did you ring me” I retorted “at the hotel, you sound angry” she said “Of course I am angry, I have had to leave a party with a lot of good friends because you cannot trust me, because you do not believe that anything I do, I do with good intent and with you very much in my mind, if I had told you that I was going to meet Ellie what would you have done, do.