There Must Be A Mistake Ch. 12

"If I weren't talking to you Even, I would call you a liar and have no doubts about it. Why is she in my class?"

"I told you, she can't draw. You have to teach her how to draw schematics."

"I can do that Even. Can you give me a hint at what she has to do for you?"

"She has to do every control panel in the craft; every electrical circuit, junction, schematic, and everything else so the craftsman can do their job without having to ask questions every other second."

"You are not looking at one semester's worth of work. This could take a few years."

"Take her under your wing; you will be amazed how quickly she can learn. Take a sabbatical; I will pay you your weight in gold, that's how important she is to this undertaking."

"My Doctor may hate me because of all the weight I've gained, but I'm sure going to love getting on the scale when you pay me."

"You won't even put a dent in my checkbook."

"I'll start my sabbatical in January."

"Thanks Hank, I knew I could count on you."

He gave the phone to Logan, and looked at Delicious.

"Young lady, you better get used to looking at this face, because you're going to be seeing it every day starting January. I'm going to be teaching you how to draw."

"My father's checkbook can be very convincing at times."

"Yes it can, especially when he told me he was going to pay me my weight in gold."

"Shall we go for ice cream after class?"

"A double thick banana split sounds enticing, but now I have a class to teach. We will discuss your schedule with me, after you set up your schedule for next year."

"I'm going to school next year?"

"Yes you are; your father wants you to assimilate with people your own age. I am a little older than you are. I will help you choose your classes and your instructors. You will also come with me to that meeting at 4:30. It's only proper you show up."

"That banana split may melt."

"I'll have them put it in a blender, and make a milkshake out of it."

"That sounds like a plan. Let's go to class, I want to learn how to draw."

************

As they entered the room Doctor Allerton said, "Knock their socks off with your knowledge, and then turn them down when they offer you a degree. It will squeeze the air out of the room."

"You've been that talking to my dad too long."

"He didn't tell you we went to MIT together? He was a year ahead of me."

"He failed to mention that to me."

Doctor Allerton said, "Members of the board this is Delicious Luck."

"Miss Luck, please take the seat that's been reserved for you. I am Doctor Holland, the vice president of this university, and we are here this afternoon on the unprecedented request of several of your professors. You have a GED diploma from the State of Maine, and your school transcript shows you have less than a 2.1 grade point average. Would you care to explain that to us?"

"School was boring. I knew more than all the teachers wrapped together. They wouldn't give me advanced work, so I left most of my classes and sat in the vice principals office and in detention most of the time."

"How did you learn all the advanced knowledge you have come by?"

"My mother sent out for books from libraries all over the country. What they didn't have she got from universities. I taught myself everything I know."

"We will see about that this afternoon."

"Doctor Roswell will ask you a few questions about nuclear physics."

His question went straight to the inner workings of the nuclear reactor.

"Doctor Roswell everything you know about the inner workings of the nuclear reactor is about to change. A patent has been filed, submitted to the Department of Energy and is currently with the NRC for approval. The design of all nuclear power plants are obsolete. Nothing will ever be cooled by water again. I cannot discuss this any further, unless you are all willing to sign an NDA."

"Who designed the reactor?"

"I cannot discuss that with you unless you sign the NDA."

"If I sign the NDA can I see the design of the reactor?"

"Yes you may."

"Get me a copy of the nondisclosure agreement and I will sign it. Doctor Holland I'm finished with this student and I accept her answer."

"Doctor Jerome."

"Professor Holland, Miss Luck is in my class. Without the use of a computer she was able to change airfoil of a winglet from its up position to down and increase the lift, decrease the drag, reduce the wake turbulence effect and increase the fuel efficiency of an aircraft. I watched her do it in less than five minutes. She knows more than I do about aerospace design and engineering. I accept her answers.

Questions were thrown at her for the next 45 minutes and she only stumbled once on Electronic Gaussian Optics.

At the end Doctor Holland asked, "Are there any dissenting votes in offering Miss Luck a Bachelor of Science Degree?"

Delicious raised her hand.

"Miss Luck, do you have something to say?"

"Yes sir, my father, Doctor Even Luck does not want me to have a degree. He wants me to stay in undergraduate studies so I can have some fun and stay with students my own age. I have not been able to do that in my life, and while we are waiting for the statistics to come in to build our spacecraft he wants me to enjoy myself and grow. Once we get those statistics, we will be working nonstop to design and build that craft until we are ready to leave the Earth behind."

"Do you believe this is going to work Miss Luck?"

"Did you think it was possible for radio waves to be transmitted around mountains Doctor Holland? The engines for our spacecraft are already built. They are ready to be installed in the craft, all but one that is, and we are waiting for approval on that one."

Doctor Roswell exclaimed, "Oh my God, you have patented a working design for the nuclear engine, didn't you?"

Delicious did not reply.

"Give her the damn degree, Doctor Holland, and let her stay in undergraduate studies. I have a feeling this young woman knows more about nuclear science than all of us sitting at this table."

"Doctor Roswell has put in motion before this board; do I hear a second?"

"I second the motion," Doctor Jerome said.

"All those in favor of the motion signified by saying Aye."

The entire panel voted "Aye." Delicious was awarded a Bachelor's of Science Degree after attending four days of college.

She stood up and thanked the board. "I hope this does not get me in trouble with my father. Sometimes he gets very angry with me, when I do not do what he tells me to do."

Doctor Allerton said to her, "I'll tell him you fought them tooth and nail not to take this degree, but they forced it upon you. He will believe me."

"No he won't, he can tell a lie from a mile away."

"Then I'll call him from here. It's more than 90 miles away from your home."

"You can give it a try, but it's not going to work."

"Call my dad again, Logan. He may be angry this time."

************

"You lying sack of shit, you could have walked her out of the room, instead of letting her answer those questions. You just wanted to show her off in front of those professors. I should neuter you."

"You're too late Even, I've already been neutered."

"Why, you're not even married."

"Do you realize how much young stuff walks in and out of my classroom every day? I would break the bank buying condoms every week. This was cheaper, and my insurance company paid for it."

"Always thinking ahead aren't you Hank."

"At least I was thinking with the big head instead of the little one."

"Why don't you come out and visit us one day. I think we will blow your mind."

"You better have two NDA's ready. Doctor Roswell is chomping at the bit to see your nuclear engine."

"How does he know about it?"

"His question was about nuclear reactors and Delicious told him everything he knew about reactors was wrong. When she told him that the reactors of the future would not be water-cooled he went through the roof. Delicious told him she wouldn't say anything more unless he signed the NDA. I think he would have given his heart and both lungs to see those designs right then and there. I'll bring him with me and we can see them together. Is this Saturday okay with you?"

"Saturday is fine. Why don't you come here about 2:00 and plan on staying for dinner."

"That's mighty generous of you Even. We will see you at 2:00."

**********

"Let's see if Roswell is still in the room, we are invited to dinner Saturday."

"He caught you in the lie, didn't he?"

"Yes, that bastard must have ESP."

"He catches me all the time, and I catch him."

"Does anyone in your house tell the truth?"

"We tell the truth all the time now. We got tired of getting into arguments by lying."

"Roswell, we're invited to Even Luck's house Saturday. I'll pick you up at 12:15."

"We are not going in your car. I doubt that thing could make it 200 miles. What do you do with all your money?"

"I save it for retirement."

"With that car, you may not make it to retirement. We will take my car, and I will pick you up."

"I knew I could get him to pay for the gasoline."

"Doctor Allerton that was a nasty thing to do."

"Nasty, but effective."

"Ice Cream, I'll even buy."

"You're his daughter, and he pays you?"

"Yes, he gives me a little bit to live on."

"How little is a little bit?"

"He pays me $500,000 a year."

"You're damn right you are paying for the ice cream."

51. Meeting His Parents

Once Logan checked the apartment thoroughly he said good night and took off for the rest of the day. Delicious secured the apartment, started dinner, and went to take a long shower. She had a long and wonderful day, and she was daydreaming as the hot water sprayed over her head. Suddenly, the water turned ice cold, and she screamed, "I'm going to kill you Gray."

"How do you always know it's me? Why can't it be a plumbing malfunction, or an act of God?"

"As long as I let you live, I know it's your fault. After I kill you, one of those two things will become possibilities. Kiss me before I get angry with you."

"Is the water warm?"

"Do you think I would be standing in cold water talking to you civilly?"

He stepped into the shower, and he was hit by the freezing water. She was standing underneath the showerhead laughing at him

"You lied to me. You know what that means."

"Yes it means you're still being hit by cold water dummy."

He reached for her, but she slid down the wall to a sitting position. He was freezing, so he adjusted the water temperature, instead of going after his primary target.

"Was that funny little girl?"

"Did you have fun turning off the hot water for me big boy?"

"Yes I did, I enjoyed that very much, especially the scream."

"What are you doing home so early today?"

"I decided to come home and play house."

"We play house all the time, especially now that we have our own apartment. Should we change the locks? If the building manager knows the codes, he could walk in here anytime."

"If you would like to do that, we can have it done tomorrow."

"Yes, I would like to do that; I would feel safer when I'm alone."

"It's going to take some time for you to get Maine out of your system, but believe me you will get past it. Do you see how nice the people at school are to you? That's how normal people act. They are not the assholes you dealt with in Waterville. They were aberrations, and you survived. These are really nice people and they like you just for being you."

"Can I get up now, my ass hurts?"

"It will hurt worse when I smack it."

"I did nothing to earn a spanking, so keep your hands off of it"

"I came home hoping I could kiss it all over."

"Kissing is allowed, spanking is not."

"I will try to restrain myself."

"Remember I am cooking dinner, and you don't know where the poisons are."

"You wouldn't do that to me, my parents are coming down in three weeks. They would notice I am missing."

"When were you going to inform me that I meeting your parents?"

"I haven't told them I am engaged yet."

"What the hell are you waiting for?"

"You have not met my mother, I have. She's still angry with me for leaving NASA. My ears are still ringing from that conversation."

"Should I move out of the apartment when they get here? Should I move out of here permanently and give you your ring back?"

"Don't go there baby. I have three weeks to work on her and if everything else fails; we can elope."

"Would you care to bet on that?"

"Why, who would stop us?"

"The man you currently work with has plans for a wedding that include a big church in the center of Denver. If you try to elope with me, the authorities will never find any of your atoms."

"So it's a choice between a conversation with your father, who will put me into an atom smasher, and my mother who will ring my neck for not marrying Miss Junie Penick."

"Who is Junie Penick?"

"You are not a railroad family so you wouldn't know who her father is. Mister Cyrus Penick owns 38% of the B&O Railroad. My father owns 32% of the B&O Railroad. Do you know what that means?"

"I see little children, under a Christmas tree, playing with B&O railroad cars."

"So does my mother. It doesn't matter to her that Junie slept through the entire University of Pennsylvania's Kappa Sigma Phi fraternity to get her degree. It does matter to me. Junie wants an open marriage; I don't. Junie doesn't particularly care whose child she carries; I do. In other words she is a slut. She looks like a queen, and acts like it, when she is in the presence of high society. She knows all the appropriate jokes, and knows exactly when to laugh. She is the perfect host and the perfect guest. My mother thinks she's perfect for me; she isn't. You are."

"I was hoping I fit in there somewhere. What is she going to say about your leaving the planet?"

"You are going to see the largest fireworks display since New York's 1976 fireworks extravaganza for the 200^th anniversary of the birth of this Nation? She is going to shit a brick, and then she is going to blow her top. There will be a mushroom cloud over the city of Denver."

"It's going to be that bad?"

"No, it's going to be worse than bad; it's going to be horrendous."

"You keep talking about your mother, how about your father?"

"My father tends to business matters, and he is brilliant at it. When it comes to family matters he rarely gets involved. When he does he says a maximum of three words, and whatever is going on, ceases immediately. If it's my mother he says, "Freda shut up." That's it; the discussion is at an end. My mother becomes as quiet as a church mouse. If my father has anything else to say he will say it. Otherwise, he will go back to reading the stock market report."

"I think I like your father better than I like your mother."

"I have no idea how they got together. I know it was not an arranged marriage, but they are definitely not a matched set."

Delicious sniffed the air. "Crap, dinner is burning, get out of my way." She jumped out of the shower and bent down to get a towel.

He smacked her ass.

She screamed at him on her way to the kitchen, "Dinner may be burnt, but maybe you shouldn't eat it anyhow. I told you not to hit me, and you will never know what I'm putting on it now. Socrates would have lived longer if he kept to himself."

"Socrates died because he had a big mouth."

"Doctor Grayson Thyme died because he couldn't control his hands."

"Can I help it if my consort has such a pretty ass, and she's running around our apartment naked?"

"The only reason I'm naked is you came home earlier than expected. I will get even with you, and you will not like the way I do it."

"That sounds ominous."

"I'm glad you feel that way, because it is."

********

"Burnt dinner is on the table, I hope you don't enjoy it."

He sat down, looked at his plate, and saw some odd things on it.

"Why do I have these tiny green flakes on my dinner and you don't have them on yours?"

"It's for taste. I know you like your dinner spicy. I cut up fresh hemlock leaves and added it to your roast beef. You should try the gravy also. I added a little lye to thicken it. I understand it's good for the vocal cords and digestion. How stupid of me, I forgot your wine. I'll be right back."

She walked passed the refrigerator and turned left.

"Delicious the wine is in the refrigerator."

She walked back in to the kitchen seconds later. "I know the wine is in the refrigerator, dear, but what is a good wine if it doesn't have a little liquid Drano in it."

Gray pounded the table. "Enough, you're dead."

Delicious screamed, threw the bottle of Drano into the sink, and ran for her life.

Gray tried to cut her off by running through the living room, but he slipped on the tile floor. When he got up his knee was bleeding, and when he tried to walk he limped. However he was not in enough pain to deter him from his number one goal: punishing his beautiful nemesis. How he loved punishing her; it was his favorite form of entertainment.

He walked in to their bedroom and did not see her. However, the door to her walk-in closet was slightly open.

"How dumb can you be Delicious? You left the door to your closet open. I know where you are hiding; prepare for another spanking."

She didn't answer him, and he didn't trust her as far as he could throw her, unless, of course, it was out the window of their apartment. The closet was dark, and he fumbled for the light switch. He found it and turned the light on. He still could not see her. 'She must be hiding amongst her clothes,' he thought. He walked in, bent down, and looked for her feet.

Suddenly, he was bombarded by shoes coming from his walk-in closet. The little sneak had tricked him.

She threw her running shoes, her sneakers, her high heel shoes, her flats, even her slippers at him. When she ran out of her shoes, she started throwing his shoes at him, even his cowboy boots. Her aim was excellent.

He couldn't attack her, because there was never a letup between shoes coming at his face and chest.

Then she yelled at him, "This one is for the smack on my ass I didn't deserve."

Gray covered his head and chest like a boxer; but she was not aiming there this time. She aimed 3 feet lower, and hit him dead center.

He groaned, fell to his knees, and then flat on his face.

Delicious said, "Aw, Gray, how terrible; did I hit you in a bad place?"

He groaned, "Don't you touch me; don't you ever touch me again. We may never be able to have children thanks to you. I think you crushed them."

"You big baby, if you knew anything about physics or anatomy, you would know I couldn't crush them, because there was nothing behind them to keep them in place. Turn over you big baby, and I'll massage them for you."

"If you touch them I'll die."

"If you hit me again, when I don't deserve it, I will help you die. Now turn over, and that is not a request."

As he turned she saw the blood on the floor.

"Gray you are bleeding; I'm going to call 911. They may have to operate on them. I may have cut off the blood supply. I'll be right back."

"I scraped my knee that's where the blood's coming from."

"Okay, I'll go into the kitchen, get some ice, put it on your balls, and freeze the pain away."

"Are you out of your mind, you will freeze my balls off."

"That's a wonderful idea; why didn't I think of it."

"Okay Delicious, I won't hit you anymore, unless you deserve it."

"Do you see how easy that was? No more lying, and no more hitting. We may be able to get married after all."