”I look from the cart back to him. “I’ve never had one, either.”His eyebrow goes up and he snorts in disbelief. “How is that possible? You�...�re a New Yorker.”“I’m suspicious of street food.”His smile turns puzzling as he approaches the vendor. His eyes are still on me when he says, “Two pretzels, please.” The man hands one over and Graham presents it to me.“To trying something new,” he toasts with a large smile before taking a huge bite out of his own.“So tell me about you,” he says a little. Erin, Ben, and Carol left with Mister Jones.Mister Jones drove home with his daughter and Ben in the back seat with Jack and Carol in front. Carol was not wearing a bra or panties. Her hurry to leave was too much to bother with such. Carol rarely wore underclothing of any kind anyway. Ben and Erin were sitting together holding hands. Ben looked very troubled. Erin was using her other hand to stroke his arm. At one point, she leaned over and gently kissed his lips. Carol sat splayed out on the. He was still wearing his 'Scooby- Doo' pajamas.Rebecca always found him a bit strange. Though he was a man in his thirties, she found that he acted so juvenile sometimes."Hey, did you guys hear Comet last night?" Joey asked the girls. "He was howling up a storm. Why, I haven't heard him howl like that since the last time he got lucky." Lucky at what, Joey?" Michelle, the four-year-old, asked innocently."Uh, lucky at the doctor's, sweetheart," Becky covered, scowling at Joey."Yeah, right," Joey. She turned and mounted the mare and she was gone. I never even got in one word. I headed back in the Manse. I know that sounds a bit high brow but I just can’t bring my self to just call it a house. As I stepped on the first step I was tackled and went to the ground I realized I had been shot at. Amber had tackled me she had spotted a flash that she identified as a reflection on a rifle scope and she had reacted. I looked at the left column the bullet hole was plain to see Head high. I glanced.