Further, she has become a respected, helpful and trusted friend and is even now providing me with the maximum degree of satisfaction a man can hope fo...r.”“Would you willingly return to your life before the cruise”?I thought a minute, trying to give a considered response. “No, I think I would prefer to remain here”, I responded, somewhat surprised at my own response.“Is there anything you would like to change”?Again, I somewhat surprised myself when I responded, “No, it would be hard to improve. I had discovered that I wouldn’t have time during the day to go to my locker, which was located in the drama hallway far away from any of my classes (also, filled with visibly gay guys that I didn’t want to be associated with), so all my books were in my backpack. I hurried out to the bus, hoping to sit across from Kevin again. Instead, Brandon Macleod (even though we have the same last name, we aren’t related), motioned for me to sit next to him. Kevin and Alex sat right in front of us, and. The chief tried to ignore pa, but for some reason this made pa even madder. He hit the chief, and then everything went crazy." What happened?" The chief didn't even raise his hand, but one of the braves pulled his hatchet from his belt and chopped straight down into pa's head. I had been watching after Mary, so when I saw this, I grabbed her hand and pulled her under a brush pile. Someone, I think it was Mary's pa, shot the brave who had killed pa. The next thing I knew, there was an arrow. .. we really need to leave if we want to make it.”“Yes, Ms. Turov,” Chiron chimed in. “Time to go, if you would.”Tattie tried to hide her gratitude, and mostly succeeded, but it was there.He let Carol handle getting Tattie and her family into their car, as he gave the driver the restaurant’s address.JasonHe leaned back in his chair, motioning for a refill on his coffee.“Estrellita, that was incredible,” he said. “I have honest-to-God nightmares about you moving on somewhere else.”“No chance of.