I laughed inside."Hi, Mr. H." Kim said suddenly.I smiled at her. "Well, I hope to see you around," I told them. The comment mostly dircted towards the...young girl. I would certainly start keeping an eye out for her while she's on her walks."Well," Carol said, "take care." She smiled big at me. She was a little too chipper for my tastes.I gave Kim one last look over as she walked with her mom around the corner of the aisle.I finished shopping, not passing by them again.I hurried home, and the. “Ms. Hoover, your question?”“Does the United States expect cooperation from the rest of the world, in creating this new, more powerful extension of the UN?”“Despite the fact that the President released the news to the world; the idea did not come from her, or from the United States. The UN Security Council conceived it, after the President briefed them personally. I believe that both the Canadian and the German Ambassadors spearheaded the effort.“The UN Security Council voted to implement it. She’d begun to work herself toward an anxiety attack by mulling over what she wanted to say to Keith, and worrying about what he was going to say to her. By the time she pulled up in front of his apartment, she’d come to the conclusion that the police were going to need some help catching the culprits trashing the lakeshore. Keith’s car was in the lot and his motorcycle was parked in the shelter, so she assumed he was home. As she walked toward the apartment building, she heard his voice. The. I'm not tarring you with the same brush baby, but like I said, we are still too new to each other. My part of the house is my safe place; my fallback."What the hell; I had her most of the time she was home anyway so I didn't push it.Occasionally we went out with her friends Tricia and Gina and I noticed that whenever we did I would get looks from Tricia that I couldn't decipher. Not mean looks or dirty looks, but looks that almost asked:"Why are you here? What are you doing with Vickie?"We had.