"Spot!" the newcomer cried. Harry thought he recognized the man as one of the Officers' Mess cooks. "How did you get out? You naughty thing." 'Spot'?"... Harry was surprised yet again, but then nodded in comprehension. "I get it. Calling a striped skunk 'Spot'. Cute." He rolled his eyes and shook his head.The cook relieved Bookie of his burden. "I'll take him back to his cage, if I may, Sir, and see to it he's securely locked up."Captain Whitefeather chose that moment to stride down the road,. I'd lied about having a laptop computer, for example, and it had been a lie I hadn't even considered until the words left my lips. It was as though the monster had everything worked out even if I did not.As I drove the car through the sleepy subdivision Bella continued to cry. After a minute or two Bella whispered, "How ... how do you know about that ... that video? Did Mr. Gauge show it to you?"I gave her a blank stare and then fixed my eyes back on the road. My heart was pounding in my chest. After swallowing he said, ‘She told me all along she didn’t want to have sex with me because she was under eighteen and it was illegal.’ ‘Can I be frank?’ He looked at her warily. ‘Um, sure?’ ‘I always thought she treated you like shit, but I didn’t say anything because you seemed happy. I thought you broke up with her because you finally got wise.’ ‘She did treat me like shit,’ he agreed. ‘We’d go to parties or dances, and she’d say she needed to talk girl-talk with her friends. So she’d go. Piling out of the car, the first thing we do is group pictures. Seeing Blair and Kevin arrive, I pull them into the mix, so we have photos of the seven of us together. We are the core group that started my companies, and this is the first time we get pictures of everybody. The only one missing is Rachel.When we are finished with the pictures, we head inside. It is nothing fancy. The school rented the banquet hall. To start with, there is a dinner which is only a single course with a desert..