’ ‘Oh?’ Tommy said. ‘Yeah,’ Bud looked a little sheepish. ‘I talked with the Chief this morning. He wants to contract with you…us…to t...rain guys in the department.’ ‘Great,’ Tommy said. ‘You want to handle it?’ ‘You want me to?’ Bud asked. ‘Maybe it would be better if you did, I mean, you are sensei now.’ The fact that Bud looked at him as sensei really hit Tommy. The man was old enough to be his father! He shrugged. ‘Why don’t you put together a program you think will work?’ he suggested to his. Well I was kinda scarred too because here I was alone with a young man and he was very hansome. It was a school day and he was home so I thought he must be out of school and is older than he looks. The house was a shotgun home with no real bedrooms. His bed was next to the kitchen and he sat on the end of end of it and talked to me as I worked. He was real nice and had this high pitch to it and he talked gay. He asked me about myself and I told him all about me and the divorce and was getting. I must admit I'm glad he's dead -- Cy, not Laxness. He's been a thorn in this department's side for twenty years. Now we can get someone decent in the early novel. Lots of young people looking for jobs these days, not at all like the early sixties. I called Susan right away, and she wasn't sorry at all, either." She paused for breath."Susan?" Cy's wife. Former wife. Whatever. She left him -- oh, eighteen years ago. I remember her arriving on our doorstep the evening she left him. Just there.. I knew it would be hard on me but I wanted to get back into shape as fast as I could. It was on my bucket list of things to do as soon as possible.By the time I was finished I was weak and winded like a race horse that had been run too hard. The showers and hot tub helped some. I waited until one of Amy Crossman’s weekend masseur ladies was free for a turn on the massage table.Tomorrow I was going to spend time on the mats and those type of exercises and then probably need the same treatment.