"I looked over to her as I was washing my hands and saw her grinning. I smiled and Nathan said, "What are you two up to?" Nathan, she has on makeup an...d has done her hair, and she wants me to take you to town this morning. Do you reckon she is hiding something from us?"She sat the plate of biscuits on the table and Nathan grabbed her by the waist and pulled her to his lap, saying, "And what are hiding from us woman," as his hand slipped inside her robe. She was squealing and squirming and jumped. “But make yourselves at home. I need to go start up a few other things. Feel free to look around! Bathroom’s that way.” He pointed at a doorway connected to the hall. They noticed a few other doors as well. “I’ve got food storage, a small kitchen, some bedrooms, and a communications slash monitoring room as well. Just don’t touch anything in there please.” “A-Adam… this is…” Sarah started to speak. “Childish… right?” He replied nervously, his back still turned to them.. “AWESOME!” Yelled Diane,. I was therefore both surprised, and unprepared one Saturday morning, when a heavily gravid Frankie Sykes drove up the road and parked in the yard. She had not called ahead. Well ... let me put it this way. She had not called me to tell me she was coming. She got out, with a hand in her back, and waddled towards Jake and me. We'd had come out onto the porch when we heard Tucker barking and her car coming up the drive."You made it in record time," said Jake, stepping down to awkwardly hug. I tried to answer all his questions truthfully and without embellishment. I volunteered some of the negative comments I'd been hearing from Clint -- even some of the remarks from Ben Parton, my Saints' battery mate and sometime detractor.The one thing Bill Bowman didn't ask me about was money. I had prepared a speech about how I'd like him to take me on as a contingent-fee project. If I made it back to Organized Baseball as a pitcher -- even as a salaried minor-league pitcher -- I was prepared.