I need to come up with some way to distract her while I poke around." Be very careful with that, Chuck! We don't want to spook anybody." Understood! I...s there a plan to deal with Austin?" We're working on one and we'd like you to be involved, since you're apparently his next target. I'm happy to hear you've arranged to travel because I'm planning to call a meeting of some of our best people in Columbia, Missouri in two weeks, if I can manage it. Can you be there? I'd like to meet you in person. "Yes Melinda, I'd like that very much, but only if you want to."Grinning, I wryly added, "Besides, I need someone to wash my stinky back!"She looked up to see me smiling at that and because of my smile her tension melted slightly."Okay, I think I'd like that too," she nervously looked into my eyes for support.Holding out my hand for her, she grasped it and followed me towards the shower area.The shower was practically a room all to itself. The toilet had a room to itself. The sinks and. There were no bouncers at the door. The dance floor was hard concrete with no flashing lights arcing above and there were most definitely no foam baths.There were, however, plenty of drugs, booming dance sounds and hundreds of dancers. There were far more than the few dozen people that Iris had vaguely expected for a clandestine rave at such a remote address. There were many times the number of people allowed by law to assemble at any one place and all of them were going wild for it as the. It is a fairy tale romance. Some parts are funny, some parts are sad, but it was all written by God before time began. I met this guy named Randy in Algebra class when we were juniors at Washington High School. I’d love to tell you it was love at first sight, (so that it would go along with the rest of my fairy tale) but it wasn’t. I was seeing a sophomore in college at NC State named Brian and at the time, so I wasn’t interested in any other guys. Our algebra teacher was out on maternity leave.