I explained everything to Dad then. The Program, how I'd been feeling about Jason... what had gone on at the middle school the day before... everythin...g. He seemed surprised to hear about the middle school, realizing that Samantha would have been present. I didn't leave anything out about Jason and I, and finally ran out of things to say and sat there, nervously picking at my fingernails, before he finally spoke."I can't say I'm all that surprised, you know. You two have always been great kids,. They got there almost 6 hours later than they had planned. The incident resulted in Winslow and AD Joe Barber coming to an agreement that any flights would be charters out of Burlington and any trip over 5 hours would be overnight. Penny-pinching and cost cutting were noble, but when it came to the team travel, comfort and promptness had to take precedence when being noble hurt the end result.All these things poured through his head as he prepared to meet his team for "report card". He knew. Tia pulled a pistol from my shoulder holster and double tapped the guy that stuck his head out from the dining room. I quickly handed Erika my pistol and drew the other for O'Kei. I pulled my shotgun and moved to the door leading out of the building. I had just unlocked it when someone opened it from the outside. I stepped back and leveled the shotgun waist high. The two goons coming in the door quickly to see what the shooting was about were one of the walking patrols and the shotgun dropped. Early spring is good. Ch. 02 John John grew up in Ellijay, a small town in north Georgia. His dad worked for the Forest Service, and he was John’s hero. When he finished high school, John applied for a scholarship to the college he thought offered the best curriculum for a career like his dad’s. His grade point average was certainly good enough to be considered for the scholarship, but he worried about it anyway. It had been needless worry. He didn’t get the partial scholarship he applied for,.