"Yeah, best costume gets a nice prize. Some cash, and afew gift certificates, a nice dinner for two for mostcategories. The best one dressed as the ...pposite sex gets acruise." That's a pretty nice prize just for a little party amongfriends." But it will be fairly big. And the prizes were donated bya friend who won the lotto a while back. She can afford it."I should have had second thoughts about this. Things weregetting rapidly out of control. But I went meek and answered"Well, OK, I. Even bureaucratically constipated minds can overreact only so much."Mr. Dean, sir," I said, "I cannot tell a lie. I have nothing to say that I believe you need to know."I could see him repressing a smirk. "Let me rephrase. What do you know that I believe I need to know?" As you heard, a massive snowball fight took place during lunch." And what do you know about this snowball fight, Mr. Powyr?" I was there, Mr. Dean. I saw it all." I see. Did you, by any chance, participate in said snowball. “Be there in an hour,” I said and then showered and shaved everything below my head as I knew I’d be getting laid. Well, I definitely hoped I would.I put on jeans, a tee, and a sweatshirt, and drove to the store and parked in the lot beside it — and waited. He didn't show on time, so I went into the store and bought two roast beef subs, a bag of chips, and two microbrew beers. Walking back outside, I saw him astride his bike.I said I had an idea and got some weed from my car and then put my. I told some of the things I found out about Jimmy on our trek and Bev told some stories about him. Some of the stories she told made me realize the football team had done little, if anything, to corrupt him. It was like they were ready made for him.All three of us were disappointed that we couldn't tell the girls about the punishments we'd put in place for him. But I wasn't about to let them know my secret, especially Alice. It would remain a secret until she started serving her next.