Dave's ears perked up at this; it didn't seem like his mom was trying to take a swipe at Maddie, but he was on edge all the same."Well, it's just that... something about him feels… off," Maddie explained. "I can't quite place my finger on it, but there seems to be something untrustworthy about him. I could be wrong of course, but…" What makes you say that?" John asked with a grin."A number of things, actually. First was his decision to mention both Cindy and Dave by name during the morning. E."Schmidt?" Paul wondered. "Why are we stopping at Schmidt? And why is the colony called that anyway. Was there ever a famous Schmidt?" I'm sure there was," said the captain of the space cruiser. "And I'm sure there are many Schmidts who are worthy to have a colony named after them. This colony, however, is named after Ronald Schmidt, the current hereditary president of the colony." Hereditary president?" Beatrice wondered. "Isn't that exactly the same as King or Prince or some other. Yes, he said, you truly are a beautiful woman. He said this in response to me telling her how good she looked.Well that started a conversation between he and us that told us his name was Derek, he was from out of town on business, was staying at the hotel and would be in town for another three days. We explained to him that we were from close by and that we liked coming here to eat and dance. Derek told us one of the reasons he stayed here when he was in town was that he liked the food but also. Our sister was sitting there all proper and controlled and we sat there and talked about him heading off to college and me heading over to Korea. We all joked around and ended up ordering something for dinner. After we finished eating, he had to head out to meet up with all his high school buddies before they all headed off for college, so he said goodbye and we were finally alone again. We did some cleanup of the trash and put some more stuff in the cupboards and then went over to the couch.