"I have a confirmed sighting of Derek Parsons," Stuebens said. "I confirmed it with the license number you provided and I just had a face to face conv...rsation with the man. He's wearing blue jeans, a red T-shirt and a dark blue baseball cap with a logo I don't recognize." Is he still sitting outside of O'Bannon's?" Williams inquired."How in the world do you know that?" Stuebens asked incredulously."Chuck O'Bannon called Bryant when the guy walked in the bar," Williams told him. "Chief Hawkins. “Man, this game must suck or I’m just that unlucky.”‘Probably the latter’, he thought. Sighing, he closed his PC, attempting, and failing, at dulling the aching pain in his heart, and also staring sadly at his own reflection staring back at him through his monitor.“Hello,” he said to himself, clinging on to the last semblance of his sanity as he could feel his own eyes stare back at him with an emotion he discerned as disgust. “What am I even doing? Talking to myself, you’re becoming more and. His father is dead and his mother regards him as an impediment to her. He did not get hugs and kisses, not at all for many years, so getting them now has a great impact on him.”Prudence was puzzled, “But he acts so grown-up when he tells us about things; I was so impressed by that.”Erika explained, “Such erudition was his overcompensation for his social awkwardness. He studied knowledge instead of studying how to interact with people. His isolation allowed him to study subjects intensely. His. ”“So how long will it be until you’re eighteen?”“Four months,” she replied.“Then there’s an easy answer. A lot of those four months will be taken up with this project, then there’s Christmas to take out, and it will take time to line up the next one. Just take some time off and relax. Book a holiday.”Our main course arrived, four dishes and boiled rice and we ate in silence for a while.“What happens with your company and everything?” I asked, “When you turn eighteen.”“At the moment she holds.