"Yes, Sir," she said. "I'm sorry."He acted like nothing had ever happened and picked up the pages again."Now, as I said, I've been doing some research.... I need to ask you two a question, and it's a very important question. You've been back to school for almost a month. Who knows that the two of you are going together?"Jack looked at Mandy, who felt it was wiser to let him do the talking for a little while. She knew her father would make good on his threat. Not that she was planning on sassing. It was worth it.After that night, I started talking to the combat vets. We needed to get the kids under control. Some good ones could be getting killed by the scum and we'd never know it. It was time to take charge.We got three squads of 14 men and women, mostly combat vets, some farmers and ranchers. We all got into fatigues and combat boots, Alice packs, helmets and weapons. Half with shotguns, half with M-16s. All those spotting lasers from the shotguns looked positively intimidating. I also. "I've noticed you here before." The nickname?" Elaine glanced an inch to the left where her nickname, Naughtygirl, sat proudly."Yes. It's intriguing." I'm really nothing like my nickname," Elaine typed, adding a smiley face with its tongue sticking out. She hoped he thought she was being subtle and flirty. For some reason this man made her heart flutter."I know," he typed back, halting her in her tracks."What do you mean?" Elaine asked, suddenly wondering if this man was more dangerous than she. And we were out the door. I started to make recommendations on which club to go to, and Mike said, we’re not going to a club. We’re going to walk the street to find guys we want to bring back to audition with us for Danny tomorrow. I started to tell him that Danny didn’t need others, then realized that was the recruitment tool. Come with us hot guys and you could get paid for the video. I watched them in action. Mike and Matt slowly swaggered down the street, and would intentionally split.