Besides, it will only be for a coupledays." OK," she says cheering up.After we finish making our plans, I take the cat over to Chelsea's andtell her w...e are going to be out of town a few days because mygrandfather is sick. In this case I can tell her the truth withoutgiving anything away. She agrees to watch the cat and Mike, Emily, andI go to the safe house my parents set up to transform me back intoClayton.Although I am forced to keep the breasts, which are covered using chestbinding, the. "Oh yeah, dad. I'm going home, uh, Friday afternoon. After class gets out. Please tell me you sent something?"We both laughed again. Dad once had the impression that his wife wasn't his mother, and therefore he didn't need to get her anything for Mother's day. That is the wrong impression, believe me! He'd been over-doing it every year since, but I still teased him about it.He had to send something because he was TDY (temporary duty) in Italy. Dad was a Captain, bucking for Admiral, so he was. Folks can literally travel all day long and, by missing bridge openings, find that they’ve traversed a stunning ten miles for the day, in other words at a pace even a Green Sea Turtle could walk away from. Needless to say, tempers can flare. This is the voice of experience speaking. And another unique feature of this stretch of the ICW concerns the folks who man these bridges. They watch million dollar yachts and duct tape-patched inflatable motorboats pass by all day long so perhaps they are. Chuck went away before they went off to Wimpy's, leaving Pete with no requirement to justify anything. The other couples cuddled a lot, but Wanda didn't ask for anything; she seemed happy just to be there. They talked about various things -- classes they had in common and classes they didn't and who handed out the worst homework and how the team was doing. There were other couples in the place, some of whom seemed to be working at being seen; Wanda didn't do that. She didn't make demands -- she.