"I thought you'd be pleased for me Tommy," she said as we sat in the pub eating our lunch."I am mum, you know I am." I smiled at her across the table...."Tommy when you're happy, your smile touches your eyes, that one didn't," she said softly. "Why not?" I don't know mum, I'm just uncomfortable with it." But why? I really don't understand you, it pays a ten pounds an hour for four hours a day, five days a week, that's two hundred pounds a week, I can pay my way, I won't have to sign on and live on. "So, what have you whipped up there?" I made us a lasagna with garlic breadsticks and salad, Mom. How doesthat sound?" Dana replied and his mom was also thinking that the pitchof his new voice would have her customers at the strip club reachingfor the ten spots for tips."That sounds delicious, um, son." Dana's mother said. "You lookdifferent, did you do something different with your hair?" Oh, Mom, you can see that I have decided to turn my life around.Something overcame me two days ago, an. “That was just wonderful,” Cecile praised.George was smiling and said, “Guess we have our own Jazz quartet right here, Dan. That was really special. You wrote that Chuck?”“I arranged it, George. Another George, George Gershwin wrote it. All I did was hear it a different way and adapted it to the instruments we played at home,” I said facing the couch then turned to Carol. “I have tons of stuff like that, but most of it is at home. I have a folder in my dorm room that has a bunch of stuff I had. This, Aiden assumed, must be Grace. He headed in the direction of the kitchen. “Good morning, Mr Biggs,” Aiden called out through the open kitchen door.“Ah, Aiden, come in for a second would you?” John replied. Aiden stepped in and looked in the direction from which John’s voice had originated. “I want to introduce you to my fiancée, Grace.”Aiden gazed at the woman stood next to John. She was much younger than the man next to her; she barely looked to be 21. However her beauty took Aiden’s.