“Thank You, Matt, but you know that I don’t like to talk about myself,” Trudy said in the most selfless manner.“But why did you do that?” I ...as completely overwhelmed“You were not the only one to spend time around homeless people. Remember, I was homeless too at one point in my life,” Trudy said and ended the topic.I looked at her with complete respect. After that emotional moment, we finally reached our destination. The car came to a halt and the driver opened the door as Matt was out and. I'll take care of it. You can count on me." The man's nervousness disappeared, replaced by a sense of purpose. Tony had grown used to being the low man on the totem pole. The thought of all the power at his disposal gripped his brain, like the tentacles of a blood-sucking, vampire squid. Tony was the smallest man in the unit, but now his comrades, who had endlessly made fun of his stature, would be forced to obey his commands."I'm going to check on our prisoner," Mitch said as he stared at the. Not that I wasn't proud of her or whatever just that, you know, I can't actually tell her that, right?Anyway, she had to give a speech awarding the Senior Class Teacher of the Year award and she'd been working on it for a month and since she had to be at the school early for the whole event, I figured I'd ride with her and met Peter there. I could have gone over to Peter's house and ridden in with him but...But, in all honesty, I really wasn't looking forward to all this. I mean, yay, he was. Sarah rummaged up a couple of sandwiches and a glass of rosé wine. We sat and talked about nothing in particular, until my curiosity got the better of me.“So what’s this emergency that I’m here to fix, s*s? And while you’re at it, maybe you can fill me in on where you went while I was up North. I came home to find you’d gone, left the country, and never left a forwarding address”.“Let’s start with the where I went part first. It makes the rest of it fall into place a bit better”.It seems that.