After I explained she said she was worried about my Spanish grade. Well, so was I.“Mom, I’ll ask Melanie if she can tutor me. She’s a straight-A... Spanish student. She’s a Sophomore and lives by the school.”“I know Mrs. Spencer,” Mom said, “remember?”“Oh yeah.”What an idiot I could be at times. Mom said she’d call Mrs. Spencer to set it up. Of course, I knew Mrs. Spencer wouldn’t give away my secret.Sunday after church I rode my bike over to Jennifer’s house. She let me in. I asked where Larry. He asked me if I had ever done anything like that, I told him no. He smiled and told me I should try it and that he knew a place where he could take me. He told me the best times to go are Friday or Saturday nights, near bar closing. We planned for the following weekend.The following Saturday, he comes over to my place, we have a beer first and he asks for some head before we leave. I asked if he could wait until later and he jokingly says he “wants one now before my jaw gets sore tonight”. So. As his mum had put Andy in a bad mood by turning off the television, he decided to ignore her and stay where he was and to carry on working there, even though he knew he was in his mums way, he just wanted to be awkward with her for the sake of it. If youre going to be like that, then Ill have to stand on you to make the fire, Carol told him, determined to be just as awkward as her son. Andy said nothing in reply, he just stubbornly got on with his homework, which was so easy on this day, that. I knew she would only do what was best for me. I also knew I could trust her to make the right decision.“I’m done being a brat. Go ahead with your news.”“We passed our animal trials,” she said.“Really? I thought it was going to take longer?”“Normally, it would; but thanks to your new friends at MilTech, they put us in touch with some NIH folks that could help us push things along. I’m not a fan of the favoritism that drives so much of our government, but I figure if I have to live with it, I.