Harper or Ms. H, you know this. Now- please go sit down. We're getting started immediately."My face falls but I concede and go to my seat. Jane comes ...n and starts to talk to me but I block her out. "Jane, I'm not in a good mood. Okay?"I say and Jane nods her head with a frown. I put my head down on my desk and work on the worksheet Kelly had passed out. When the final bell rings I raise my head and look for Kelly to see her quickly gathering her things. I stand up."Ms. Harper, I need to ask. ”“I’m flattered, but I think I’ll take a rain check,” she said, trying to be civil. He seemed nice, but she wasn’t looking for a relationship. She knew she should, but she just didn’t feel like putting in the work it would take.“Deal,” he said, grinning. “One rain check for a date, just to get to know each other a little bit.”He was in and out of the office a lot and she found out he was in safety compliance, like her brother was. She also learned he was divorced. That was all she knew about. That probably sounds crazy to most and I would be cautious about saying that to some shrink I didn’t trust one hundred percent or to some medical person with connections to the government grid.The development of a slight cough prompted me to check in with the VA (Veterans Administration) to make certain I wasn’t harboring some bug from the past that would prove troublesome here in the modern world. Strangely, I had never gotten sick in the past other than injuries from some outside reason like. I also reminded him that without me and my department they wouldn't have so many guilty pleas and good convictions. I also made it very clear to him that this young pup's attitude towards my department was an insult to me and the men that had worked hard getting his case set up. I told him that if we were going to be treated this way, I would make sure that all the cases from now on would be turned over to California Federal District to prosecute. He immediately said that he would get on it and.