Moon School was part of the colony that had been developed under the dome covering part of the moon. However, this school resembled a high school with...the values and disciplinary actions of a typical school back on earth in the 1970’s.There was no nonsense and resolve to create a classroom environment with accountability and student growth. When those high expectations were not met punishment was swift and painful and this included paddlings even for high school girls when merited. Shockingly. As my thoughts continued to roam I suddenly heardhim say "Adam, I think it's time to eat something, it's 2:30". I snappedout of my haze and got up and allowed him to get my keys and lock thedoor behind us. At brunch, he told me all about himself and how he had inherited a largefortune from his parents. They had died in a car wreck and he figured hewould indulge in studies for a while, before he took over the familyfirm. Currently a board of directors ran his newly inherited businessand allowed. I don’t remember whose idea it was, but it was supposed to make us more exotic. Yeah, right. Three going on forty (or slightly over that limit - I’m not tattling) soccer moms getting exotic. Not that we didn’t do our best. We all sported new hairdos – mine was cut short with a sweep over the ears, Alexis had reddish extensions, Gina had a fresh frost – and were dressed for a night on the town. I knew that I was going to turn heads. I had on a raw silk blouse, well what passes for raw silk. Six weeks later she was a girl in trouble and at the age of twenty her dreams of becoming an architect designing beautiful buildings and welcoming spaces was put on hold. With three candidates for fatherhood, she chose the partner most likely to be a good provider. Her wedding day came soon enough that she was barely showing, and if Charles noticed that her son bore an uncanny resemblance to Knox, he never mentioned it Marriage to Charles had been a slow, sixteen-year suffocation. Predictable.