Chapter 3
Atlanta, GA
Charles
SUNDAY MORNING, PHILIP went to the kitchen and prepared breakfast while I made sure that both Jeff and Rob were awake and on their way to the shower. I quickly took care of my own morning routine, dressed, then went down to the sunroom. A few minutes after I’d begun to eat my breakfast, the two brothers arrived in a state of excitement, which led me to say, “Let me guess: you guys have never flown in a small plane before, right?”
“We’ve never flown in any plane before,” Jeff said.
“This is going to be so cool,” Rob said.
We finished breakfast and drove to the airport, where they followed me into the hangar and helped me remove all of the passenger seats in the plane but one, thus creating a great deal of additional cargo space for Steve’s belongings. We
