Phoebe sighed and leaned back in her chair. This was going to be bad. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phoebe ...started to stand when the door to the principals office opened and her father strode out. Before she had gained her feet, though, he had grabbed her by her upper arm and was dragging her along with him into the hallway. He was easily a foot taller than she was and she had to run to keep up with his long strides. She could tell how angry he was,. ” The kid was trying to back off while shaking his head in disgust and fear. Benjamin stepped up.“If you think I prefer searching your corpse for the goods, well, then, I don’t want to disappoint you.”“Fuck it, man, fuck it, man” the kid spoke nervously as Benjamin’s gun got nearer his face. “OK, wait man, wait, you get the goods man, OK, it’s on the house man.”Slowly, he fished a small package out of the pocket of his jacket with two fingers of his left hand.“OK, man? OK? Here it is man,. The Falcons are that much time away from winning their first CHL championship. Can they hold off the constant onslaught from the Chiefs?”“Mark, this must be the longest two minutes of P.K. Subban’s hockey career! I’ve been watching him in the penalty box and he’s too worried and excited to sit down. Instead, he’s standing by the glass, cheering on his teammates to kill off the penalty. If they manage to kill off the remaining time in the penalty, Spokane will still have a six on five advantage. They pulled out a piece of scrap paper and pen. The two of them were putting their heads together to calculate how long it would take Stephanie to save up enough money to move here permanently. No matter how they figured, it seemed like it would be no less than a year and half, and that would be eating Ramen noodles every night and cancelling her cable and internet. They leaned forward and put their heads together literally this time."Look, it really isn't that long, I promise. It might.