I'm going to need you both for support, you are the only family I have, please Grams." Derrick pleaded.Drawing a heavy breath Milley nodded her head y...es, "For you Derrick I will do this I won't like it in the least but I'll do it. Just don't ask me to do it that often, not 'til I am used to it, say in about 100 years?" This last comment drew a laugh from Derrick and a wide eyed stare from Sherry."Thank you Grams, Mother; I am afraid that you both will have to stay in the palace 'til it is. She looked at his features and drank him in - his muscles portruded in all the right places, his jaw chiseled, his lips a bit wet, his nose towering on his face , and his eyes doing the same examination of her. She gasped and looked down, batted her eyelashes as she did. She smiled sheepishly and wondered if her move to regain her composure was made evident. She toyed with her coffee and crossed her legs when her mystery guy sat in the wooden chair across her and smiled at her. It made her. The rule was that students could take a foreign language, or a foreign language and an advanced math, however you couldn’t take an advanced math without taking a foreign language. That was just so much bureaucratic nonsense.I had zero interest in taking any more Spanish. It had been a waste the entire first time around. The high school teacher, Miss Fontaine, was a very pleasant person, a spinster who was totally burned out from teaching us little assholes. Her one true passion in life was. He turned back to the window and began counting the man-made shooting stars lighting up the early morning sky outside his window. He pretended that the lights emanating from these deadly missiles were fireworks — the very same pyrotechnical displays Caroline, Lu and his mother would probably be preparing for a little less than a month from now for the annual Fourth of July party. He knew that they still celebrated that holiday with the biggest fete in Wake County—organized, hosted and executed.