"Maybe she was adopted." Dad!" she elbowed him in admonition. "It's a good thing Granma and Grampa didn't hear you."Brent sneaked a look at his parent...s on the left of Andrea and watched as they anticipated Scott's name being called. The O'Leary's had been unable to attend as they were out of the country on a European vacation, but sent their best wishes, and a very nice check for Scott to spend on whatever he chose. Finally, the announcer called Scott Gordon and he stood and walked up the. We had already put together a shopping list of products to look for and Jack had been given a budget to use as he pleased on acquiring new strains of plants for the next year. ‘There had better be some fun involved,’ Maggie laughed, ‘Don’t forget that you still owe me a special date…. I am still one down, you know.’ It had been a running tease between us since I took Gwen to London for the week-end to the ballet. ‘Yeah, I’m working on it….’ I chuckled, ‘There are several good burger bars. " Well, it was my pleasure to take you out on the boat."Bree turned on her side and looked at me. "I want to thank you for coming into my mom's life. You have made her so happy." It is more like she came into my life," I said smiling. "It is something that really took me by surprise but it has been a wonderful surprise." I really can't think of a better guy for her to pick," said Bree smiling back at me. "All of her other boyfriends were assholes." Bree blushed as she realized she swore."I. "Sorry, Charlie," he said, sounding the barest bit apologetic. "Ireally didn't mean to scare you or anything. I saw you walking this wayand thought I'd surprise you."I was still debating the pros (which were a lot) and the cons (of whichthere were few) of high-kicking his nuts into the lower atmosphere.Then I simply sighed and relaxed a bit. Not that I actually trusted thejerk, but his body posture seemed to indicate that he wasn'tconsidering moving closer to me again. At least not.