Avasa Delgado, or Ava as she wanted to be called, lived in Lawton Oklahoma. Ava was Sheila's mother and a proud member of the Cherokee Tribe. Avasa me...ans Independent in Cherokee and Ava was the personification of her name. She preferred to be called Ava because, as proud as she was of her heritage, she believed the Cherokee needed to integrate closer with white society while keeping their own identity. Ava believed that names were one things that separated the races. That was why she hadn't. "I'll be back real late Randy. You don't have to wait up for me. Get your rest so your leg heals quick. Love you. Bye." Yeah. L... see ya later."When I didn't say 'love you' back to her I saw her hesitate. Then she turned and walked away. I sat down and actually cried for the first time. I was deeply hurt that she would be so faithless to me. That she had led me on was obvious now. But why? It wasn't like I was rich or anything.I sat there and then came up with a plan. It was going to make my. Someone had managed to get to a packaging plant and add a dose of the drug in a batch of herbal tea. The drug was undetectable except when the subsonic mind signal was present. They were blanketing the whole country with this drug. Thousands were taking it without knowledge. Thanks to the use of the drug and a mind control patch, the coffee and tea companies were putting the drug in as a preservative. All these people had to do was dial up someone, transmit the signal. If the person. So everybody within fifty miles got excited about Founder's Day in Beaverton. There was a huge cookout all day Saturday. Each family brought what they could offer to load down the temporary tables made of saw horses bridged by planks. Children had pretty much free rein to run and play wherever they liked. Those in their teens sought to find out about those things all teenagers were curious about - the opposite sex. Business was done, though that was usually dealt with quickly and efficiently,.