Lots of other things had happened, but those were the Big Four in my book.At the start of the week I flew to Tucson with the Boeing 737-700 and John M...orris, the chief pilot for Worthington Industries as my second in command to pick up Mark’s parents. Julie and Philip Emerson rode in the back, specifically because I thought that Mark’s parents would want to play with their grandson on the flight back to the city. Simultaneously, Cindy took the Citation up to Syracuse and picked up our parents. I decided to make a run for it over to our next class, viz. art, when the bell rang so I wouldn’t miss any time being with him. When it did ring I took off passing everyone in the hall. Nobody had a chance to ask for a reasonable request. I’ll save that bit of information for later.I beat Jay too. He must have gotten hung up with an RR -- that stands for reasonable request around here, by the way. I wondered what they would do with Jay? First days were usually light on RRs. None for me, so far.. She waited another half hour, not feeling sleepy at all. She looked in the hall. Seeing that there was no light under their door, she went back into her room and dressed quickly. She wore jeans and a fairly heavy blouse. She didn’t think she’d meet anybody on the stairs, but she didn’t want them to see her in her night clothes if she did. In flip-flops she snuck out of the apartment. She carried the key ring and her cell.She met nobody on the stairs, and the key worked easily in Jake’s door. He. Guys don’t really have ‘wedding needs.’)Brent had chosen his best man, a friend from the fire-station named Andre. In the intervening time, we’d all gotten to know each other very well. That meant that he was reluctant to tell us. Correction: he was reluctant to tell “me”. So he took me off to the side to tell me in private.“Hey, so, I asked my friend Andre to be my best man. I hope you aren’t offended, Andre has been-”I raised a hand and cut him off. “Hey, hey, no worries, man. Geez, we.