"I cut him off, "Jim, I was NOT talking to you. As far as I am concerned, you have nothing to say about this. Obviously..."Janet cut me off. "Listen, ...we do need to talk, but you need to get rid of Brad, and we need to really talk, all three of us. Why don't you take him to get his truck and spend some time with him, say about 2 hours, then the three of us can go somewhere and talk where mom won't hear. She and Janine will be back by then, and we can go talk. Until then, make yourself scarce,. She sat down and began to eat. He sat in his regular place and waseating also. Carrie said, "I don't know what you think you are doing sittingthere. That is where my husband sits not my maid. My maid eatsafter I am done. She sees to my needs as I am eating. You betterget it straight." He continued eating as if nothing was ever said. She finishedeating and said, "I'll let you get away with it this time but youbetter do as I said in the future." She walked away and he thought he would be able. "The hotel didn't give them the wake-up call like they were supposed to. So in the meantime, let's review what we're doing today."The next 20 minutes must have been dreadfully dull for the parents. We discussed the high points of the programs that made up the Construct. If Alex, Irene and I hadn't already been immersed in it, we would have been overwhelmed by what sounded like techno-babble. As it was, Mr. Saunders got pretty technical pretty fast.He was primarily interested in making sure we. I don't know. Nevermind." What's bothering you, little brother?" she asks giving me some puppy dog eyes I can't resist."I just had this weird dream last night," I started."What happened?" Well you know how you and I have our good times every now and then?" I ask."Of course," she said with a smile leaning in to me."Well for some reason last night I had a dream I was dad and we were messing around..." That's pretty weird," she said. Stephanie was slightly suspicious I could tell."I don't know.