I really would." Really?" She looked relieved, and hopeful."Really," I assured her. And I meant it. I did want to try it!"Uhm, are you busy this after...noon?" she asked hesitantly."This afternoon?" Oh my, that was a bit sooner than I'd counted on. Carl and I had planned an afternoon, Wednesday being the only afternoon neither of us had anything after school this week.She nodded. "Uh. Nobody will be home, and I thought we could go over to my house?" she ventured hesitantly.I saw Stephanie's lips. Before he came by to pick her up the evening of their date, she had decided to be very firm with him. There was to be no misunderstanding about the nature of their relationship.Larry was a perfect gentleman the entire evening. Jane felt a little guilty about shrinking from his touch when he guided her through a doorway or helped her into a chair. She couldn't help herself. The fear that she had nurtured for so long was not going to evaporate in an evening. She only wished it could be easier for. Carla noticed that Kenny had rubbed his sleeve into the vegetables. She leaned over and picked some of the spinach off. He couldn’t help but look down her dress, but he kept his head down and mumbled, “oh, thanks.” When he looked back up furtively, she looked him straight in the eye and winked. “Oh shit, did she catch me?” his mind raced. As dinner continued and they moved onto dessert, the crowd was nearing its inevitable intoxicated state. Everyone was loud, full of laughs, and words tumbled. ”“Anytime you’d like a ride, I’m happy to oblige,” I said. “I fly whenever I can and there are two seats.”“Maybe not me, but Josh ... John, I don’t know what to say. Thank you for being a friend to my son and me.”With the Fourth on a Wednesday, of course, the bank was open Thursday and Friday for regular hours and until noon on Saturday. I went in on the fifth but took the rest of the week off. I intended to fly and thought I’d invite Josh for a training session in the Cessna. I kept it over at.