“I had a talk with Mom today.”I jerked up. “What?”“I confronted Mom this afternoon and told her to back off. We’re too old to have her sur...eiling us like 3-year-old’s, I told her. We didn’t camp out last weekend for exactly that reason, I told her. Christ! I’m only two years away from college, Mom!”Stunned, I numbly positioned the last stake, which he drove in carefully with his heel. I stood and brushed my hands on my shorts.“She admitted a lot had to do with us getting older and her being. Gotten more involved?" I ... a little. But it's not REALLY about Kevin. I can't deny that he has something to do with it. But it just feels much bigger than that." What do you mean, Honey?" Uuugghhhh," Simone grunted. "He was ... Greg was ... an ass. He was a total ass." Really? How?'"I won't give you all the details. But from the second I picked him up, he didn't show the least bit of interest in how the baby or I had been, he didn't seem the least bit glad to be home, he was distant, and he. "So, to go on with my story. After our agents started to follow those two, we noticed that they got nervous when they heard that the plane, with the girls on, had gone down somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. Probably, because they knew that their message wouldn't reach their associates in Europe in time now, they made contact with the cell themselves, and they used the Internet for it.They made contact with a cell in Liege, and they used a p2p connection to transfer them a file. We managed to. Week before Christmas, everyone in the family went Christmas Shopping to Bronners in Frankenmuth, Michigan, which was about 180 miles from us. This place is the largest place in the world that is Christmas 362 days a year.Three of us didn't go; it was the twins and I. I had to work at the store for a while and the twins didn't want to go.When I got home from the store, as I headed to my bedroom to change cloths, I heard noises coming from the twins' bedroom. Their door was open, and I heard.