That surprised me. Traci must be up, but she'd gone to the dance at the middle school and hadn't gotten home until midnight.I figured I'd go in and sa...y hi to her before I grabbed a shower."Mom! What are you doing here?" I live here, if that's okay with you." It's just... Are you sick? You should be at work." I'm fine, thank you. And I figured that if you got the day off, I should too."Mom playing hooky?"Uh, okay." And what would you like for breakfast? Your usual omelette with everything?". He would serve me some for breakfast.I asked him about breeding, and care of the animals as we walked back to the tavern. I had a sneaky suspicion I’d only be getting ten more bighorns and a bull for Cavil. The rest of the space was going to have different animals occupying it.I’d even be willing to go halves with Cavil. I had a feeling he wouldn’t argue with me, as he liked to diversify. A new meat product wasn’t going to hurt. I had known before I left that nearly all of the Bulls but Cavil,. Dave likes to hit the bars with his friends and pick up women. And it’s one and done with Dave. Just this weekend, he brought a young woman back to his apartment. She was young, with dirty blond hair, college student looks with a wild innocence about her. Both drunk, they stumbled their way inside Dave’s tiny studio apartment on the second floor. Dave's apartment was right across from the elevator - in view just as he opened his front door.The second that they got inside, the girl pulled off. When she was younger, she was a bit more resilient and sex between us was quite good. Then three things really threw a monkey wrench into our carnal activities, for her it was kids and cancer. She got pregnant in college her sophomore year with Barbara, which prompted her drop out, then a year to the day after Barbara was born, Chad entered the world quietly. The third thing was I blew out my right knee a week before I was to start my junior year as the first string right guard. I rehabbed it.