I never even saw it coming. I had been taking karate since elementary school, and I was pretty good. Robert, for someone who looked like ‘exercise’ was walking across the room to get the TV remote, was pretty fast.

Fortunately for both of us, Jaime was pretty quick, too. She was only 5’1”, 110lbs soaking wet, but she was into pressure points. She had Robert and I completely under control before either one of us could follow up.

“You children finished?” she asked. She was amazingly calm.

“He started it!” Robert grunted. She dug a thumb in under his jaw. He gasped.

“You’re not in preschool, Rob!” I snapped. She found a pressure point in my shoulder. I couldn’t even gasp.

“Are… you… done?” she hissed. We both nodded, and she let us up slowly.

“Go get the car looked at tomorrow. I’ll pay for it.”

Robert glared at me. “You’d better believe…”

“Robert!” Jaime snapped. “We’re going. Now!“

She looked at me, sincere regret in her eyes. “Sorry, Dave. I’ll apologize to Will tomorrow.” And they left.