'Noelle - age 7'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.'Tommy - age 6'Duri...ng my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.'Cindy - age 8'My mommy loves me more than anybodyYou don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.'Clare - age 6'Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best. My Veronica was like a ball of fire just sucking those boys dry and looking for more.I have to be honest and confess that I spent the entire time just watching Veronica take care of those four brave young men.I was one of the fill-in cheerleaders that they usually but in the back row to make the squad look like we had our fair share of nubile females when competing against the other town in the league.The only other one on the bus besides the bus driver, an elderly man called Scotty that was. The standard procedure for new Agents was to pair them up with a senior Agent for on-the-job training. To get the new person used to working in the field, handling issues that arose and dealing with the Agency bureaucracy.That she had already been in the field, solo-ing on a mission that, by all rights, should have been assigned to a working Agent and not a student, didn't matter now. That had been a special circumstance and though she had done well, now she was back in the flow again.When her. Soon after I'd left for Aikido, Vanessa had called my mom to say they had too much food, and they needed help to eat it. So my family had come over for dinner. Gina and Leanna had checked with their parents then stayed for dinner too. Last and not least - in terms of girth and importance - Gina's Mom had come over about an hour ago. She'd intended just to collect Gina and Leanna, but she was still holding forth in Vanessa's kitchen, waving a large spoon around and giving more cooking lessons to.