“He’ll have to wait a few months. He’s not quite twenty-one.”
Tom sampled a couple of the bottles selected by the group and had to admit it was fun. When they’d settled up with the shop manager, George said, “Sometimes we go to dinner as a group, and sometimes we go our separate ways. Mike and I were planning to make this our lasagna night, care to join us?”
“Funny you should mention that,” Tom said. “That’s where we were headed before we stopped in to buy some wine.”
Tom and Noah had a great time getting to know George and Mike over lasagna and garlic bread. They learned that George was the youngest captain ever to have achieved that rank with the sheriff’s office and that Mike ran his own very successful computer consulting and network service. At the end of the meal, they swapped con
