Please come up here Miss Summers."Dawn's shoulders sunk. Yet again, she was in trouble because of Buffy. She stood and slinked up to the front of the ...class. She could feel all of the other students staring at her."Dawn, why do you think I assign homework?"Before she could come up with an answer, "Because I want to torture my students? No. I do it because you need to be learning all the time. And when you don't do it, it is more than disrespectful to me, but it is disrespectful to the learning. Jackie was married but the relationship was not going well. The last time we had chatted over a drink she had confided that her husband had lost interest in her. I had answered that he must be turning gay because she was “smoking hot.” The compliment had earned me a wry grin. It was a Wednesday in mid July and I had taken the seadoo out for a spin. Being mid week the lake was very quiet. I arrived back at the dock to see Jackie standing on the beach with a life jacket in her hand. She was. .. or so the town thought.For David, everyone knew this David was not the same David who summered here. It was only when he was introduced to people and he was able to tell them where they lived, that the townies began to be a little suspicious.To Annabelle, it was new ... and trashy.For The Powers that Be ... it was old hat. They’d been here so often that Ernie just nodded.The Wendy burger was the last meal listed on the menu. It came with overdone fries served with watered and salted white. ”And now, text to Dan: “Dan, I need you ALL of tomorrow, for a trip over to Birmingham. Doug Smith retiring, and we need to sort it out.”That’s me, Dan, Wally, Beck, Anders (who’s down playing grand-dad while Bridgette fawns over a very pregnant Johanna) and Alan. I see a short jaunt for Heidi.Next day, roll out Heidi, pre-flight, VFR to Birmingham, land on 36, taxi to the 3S hangar, stop, tie-down, and Wally approves, which counts for a LOT, in my book.Characterize it in a lot of ways, but.