Rocky panted beside Steve, wearing his usual slap-happy grin, occasionally glancing up in camaraderie. Steve grinned back, admiring Rocky’s enthusiasm. Of course, when they finished, Rocky would sleep half the day while Steve went to work.
He’d been thinking a lot about his current job. The tedium of paper work and phone calls kept him tied to the office. The closest he got to the planes was inspecting the work of his mechanics. And though he’d appreciated the pay raise to straighten out the shabby record keeping Vince had left, he missed an intimate connection of checking each screw and bolt and tuning the engines.
His envied his parents, who had flown out the day before for an air show in Colorado Springs. If not for his job, he would have joined them to enjoy shiny planes being rolled
