Throughout the rest of breakfast I caught him looking at me more thanonce, but he never spoke to me. Eventually, I washed my plate, placed it in the d...shwasher, and returnedto my room to grab my purse and touch up my lipstick before joining myfamily for the ride to church.---There weren't many people in the chapel when we arrived, and I followedmy parents to an empty pew. Austin and Alex didn't join us, insteadsitting next to a man and woman I didn't recognize and whom I assumedwere Alex's. I never undressed so fast in my life, even considering the time I had jumped into an anthill when shots were fired at us on patrol. Needless to say, I got a second shower that morning, and I had a smile on my face as I redressed to go to my meeting.I went back down the steps yelling for Jimmy, saying it was time to go. I was trying to remember when I had ever felt so happy. Although I tried, I couldn't bring to mind anything like I felt at that moment. I went into my study and got my other. He nodded and limped behind me looking slightly confused and lost but so cutely boyish as he followed me. For the moment he seemed to have forgotten his woes and was living in the present. The feelings and emotions that I was experiencing was quite weird. I had to think of someway of keeping Mike here then I just had a brilliant idea! Suddenly I turned around as Mike walked into the room facing him and blurted out without thinking: ‘Why don’t you stay here tonight?! I’ve got plenty of food in,. "Fuck those bastards, Bobby. We all know you're a hero," Eric blustered. His brother-in-law meantwell, but Bobby was hoping to escape - for at least one day - the turmoil in his life.His sister - as always - came to his rescue and silenced her husband. "Hush, Eric! They'll beno war talk today. My baby brother's home. Nothing else matters."The house smelled the same, even though his parents had been dead for years. He was glad they were able to keep it in the family. Sissy and Eric had made it.