Thompson leaned forward, kissed Julie’s forehead, and then he took her hand and leaned back on the bench. For a while, neither of them said anything until Julie finally broke the silence. She said, “My good friend, Stars, will be here soon. It would mean a lot to me if you would agree to meet him. He is like a brother to me.”
“Is he the one who put you through school,” Thompson wondered with a mischievous tone to his voice.
Julie sensed that there was something wrong here. She sat up quickly and asked Thompson if he’d been Stars all along. Thompson stared blankly at Julie. He knew Julie was desperate to know the truth. “What do you think?” Thompson asked her in a voice that gave nothing away.
“I never would have thought so,” Julie replied, “but now I don’t know… If you weren’t Stars, ho
