It was one of bureaucratic power plays that had the uniformed driver enforcing the strict “correct fare” rules with little concern for sensitiviti...es or adapting to an unusual situation. I was ready to be ejected from the front door when she intervened and put the correct amount in the fare box. After that, we sat down together at the back of the bus like old comrades and I thanked her profusely for her kindness.It would be unfair to say that the age gap between us was enough to give credence to. When we got off work that hot Friday afternoon she told me dinner was at six. We then left and went home. At 5:45 I showed up at her town house. Ari met me at the parking lot as I needed a code to get in the inner gate. I gave her a quick hug and followed her to her home. Just as I came in the door I heard the phone ring. Ari’s husband picked it up. After a short talk he hung up the phone. We introduced ourselves to each other. He then told me to have a seat. Ari and her hubby Rene went into. ‘Those are my only questions for right now.’ ‘Anyone else?’ Amanda asked of the assembled group. Everyone simply shook their heads in response. ‘Excellent report Jeannie, thank you. Please get some rest tonight. I won’t need you back here until tomorrow afternoon sometime. Nina will e-mail you the particulars…’ *** Right now, Amanda Wallace was the only thing that DeMarcus Steele hated more than being on a boat. He didn’t share the fact that he didn’t know how to swim with either Kim or Mota,. Who am I to judge anyway? I had been away at college for three weeks and this was my first full-on party. “You’re a geek,” I could hear my sister Aimee telling me in my head. Tegan seemed isolated, yet she must have been having the best time within the partygoers. She prowled the crowd seemingly alone in her own world. Not with a beer or red cup in her hand, but with a camera. Not in conversation, but rather an accosting thrust of lens in seemingly random directions with pleasant and.