Soon enough I'd be using the shop a lot, building my fair share of apparatuses to play with the girls on. I first went for my hunting knife, Tara wasn...'t going to get the option of stripping for me. In the shop I found an old radiator fan belt, but better still, I found this old metal workhorse my dad had made, it must have weighed damn near 100 lbs, if not more. It looked like any workhorse, but it was metal, pop had welded the thing up years ago. When I saw it there in the corner, I knew it. My father was there to pick me up. Neither one of us spoke a word until we got home. When we walked into the front door, I went straight upstairs to my bedroom to change my clothes. When I came back down, I went into the kitchen to find some food. But my father was sitting at the kitchen table, drinking a beer. He looked up at me when I walked into the kitchen and I stopped walking. He stood up and I took a step backward out of reflex. ‘Did you think that I wasn’t going to find out?’ he asked. Dismissed." Sir."*****Monday 12/18/2000 - Reality CheckEarly as it was, Michael caught Artemis' attention in the great room ofthe cabin. "This morning you'll need to take care of the horses early.Nicole won't be able to do it today."She tilted her head and quirked an eyebrow, "And why would that be? Shewasn't feeling great last night, but didn't appear to be ill." It isn't physical, at least not entirely. Her physical situation willtrigger an emotional crisis, and it will take a good bit of. We spend the rest of lunch in relative silence after that, just general chit chat. The girls laugh and chat as they always do but occasionally looking over to us and giggling. The school bell signals the end of lunch and I say my goodbyes to Marc as we head off to our different classes. Last class of the day is Science, I really struggle with this class. One because I always struggle with the periodic table, two cause they make us take it and three cause of Lily. She's just a shining light of.