Music was playing soft and low and Craig was there smiling his very best smile. He took her by the hand and gave her a deep, sweet, long kiss. ‘Than... you for the wonderful gifts, that was a wonderful and unique surprise.’ Gina said. ‘Those were the small things, the best is yet to come. Dinner is not quite ready so why don’t we have a drink and a dance or two.’ Craig answered. After a few glasses of champagne, a few slow dances and tender kisses they had a wonderful dinner together that Craig. Finally, on Wednesday, Tanya spoke to me after class."We need to talk," she said soberly.I nodded, and we walked out together to the courtyard."You went back to the party," she said simply. "Debbie came up to me on Monday morning and said 'Sorry you weren't feeling well, Tawny. But thanks for sending Trick back." And it's a good thing I did go back," I responded.She furrowed her brow."You call that a good thing?" I call saving Jill from Paul Scholl a good thing, yeah. I call hauling her drunk. One evening after Chris had rinsed the dishes and loaded the dish washer, she headed into the living room to join the festivities. The kids, seeing her coming made a dash to climb into Ethan's lap.Laughing, Chris darted across the room and jumped into his lap first, saying, "Ha-ha, I beat you." The kids stopped and looked at her funny. Smiling she turned to look at Ethan and he was also looking at her funny. "What?" she asked, "Can't I play too?" as she threw her arms around Ethan's neck.All of. The computer eluded him. Every time he felt that he was close to unraveling the mysteries of the strange console and its purpose-built operating system, something threw him off, sending him right back to square one again. There were labyrinthian menus and sub-menus full of commands that would control the innumerable servos and gyroscopes that made up the complex machinery of the satellite dish, along with a graphical interface that displayed base functions and status, but he couldn’t find any.