Roni begins to fall asleep, after a very hard day of doing nothing,
but has a little trouble actually getting to sleep. She keeps
tossing and turning, finally she gets to sleep at 3:00 a.m., three
hours after she first laid down. Now, she drifts off to never never
land, where she has a very strange dream. In the dream, she is
sleeping in her bed, when a group of men come in and drag her away,
at first pulling in different directions, but then they synchronize
their moves, and carry her sleeping body to a vehicle waiting
outside. After getting splashed in the face with cold water, Roni
finally wakes up in a sitting position, in what appears to be a
church. Yes, it is a church, and she sees a man there. This man is
Jesus. Roni sees him come to life, jumping down from the cross on
the wall, leaving an empty cross hanging. Roni sees him walking
towards her, thorn crown, raggedy clothes, the five wounds, and all.
He goes over to Roni, and puts his hand on her head, as if blessing
her. Roni sees his lips moving, but hears no sounds coming from his
mouth, and wonders what he is doing. Finally, he takes her hand, as
he helps her to stand up. Once standing face to face, eye to eye, he
tells her, "You are free. You are free, go and know that you are
free. I died for you. I was resurrected for you. I am here now for
you, but you are free, you no longer need me. Go, be free." With
that, the man turns around and walks back to the alter. Once there,
he jumps up to the recently empty cross, and takes his place back up
there. Roni then says, "but I'll never be free."

Suddenly, Roni is awakened by a very annoying telephone ringing. She
looks at her clock to see what time it is, the red numbers 5:45
scream at her, and all she wants is to scream back at them. After the
fourth ring, she finally picks the phone up. She managed to choke
out the words, "Hello, who are you, and what do you want?"

"It's your dad. And the plane leaves in an hour, we need to leave
here to get to the plane shortly," retorted Jed.

Roni appears to be very confused, possibly from the lack of sleep, or
perhaps from the dream, as she responds "Where are we going?"

"California, remember. When you found out we were going to
California, you really wanted to come, because it's close enough that
you can see go see all of your friends that you left behind."

"Oh yeah. That trip, I almost forgot about it."

"From the sounds of it, you did forget."

"I suppose that is possible. So, question, am I packed already?"

"You must be in real bad shape if you don't remember packing
yesterday," Jed replied. "How could you possibly forget how fussy
Abbey was being?" In a very mocking tone, Jed mimics Abbey's words
from the previous day, "Make sure you pack shorts and pants, even
though you used to live there, that doesn't mean you know what the
weather is going to be like when we get there. And you should pack a
jacket too, just incase…No, not like that, this is how you fold
something like this…"

"Okay, okay. I remember now," Roni pleaded.

"Good, I was beginning to worry about you for a minute there. Good
to hear you're alright. Now, if you would be so kind as to get out
of bed, and get ready for the trip, then meet me down at my office."

"Okay, I'm up, and I'll be there in twenty minutes or less."

"Okay. I'm starting my stop watch, you have exactly twenty minutes,
then I get to send Abbey after you," Jed rebutted, as he hung the
phone up.

Roni sluggishly sits up in bed; the only thing on her mind was her
dream. She remembered every detail of it, and was bewildered as to
its meaning. Slowly getting back to the present, she remembered she
would have to deal with the First Lady if she wasn't in the Oval
Office in twenty minutes, so she got up and stretched a little. Then
she headed towards her bathroom. As she stood in the shower, with
the water pouring down on her, she kept thinking back to her dream.
She just couldn't seem to get it out of her head. "What could it
mean? I'm free from what? Why would I no longer need Jesus in my
life? Was it really Jesus that was in my dream? Maybe it
was…..No, it had to have been Jesus," she murmured to herself as
she shut the water off and pulled a towel around her. "I've got to
think about something else, if I don't, I'll go crazy. That is, if
I'm not already."

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"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4…" Jed began counting down the final seconds
Roni had to show up, as he smiled at Abbey.

"3, 2, 1. I'm here, and I have three seconds to spare, does that
count for anything?" Roni asked as she opened the door to the Oval
Office.

Abbey answered, "All it means is that I don't get to have any fun,
everyone is ready and here on time," as she pouted her way over to
Roni.

"So what, no prize or anything? I told you twenty minutes, and I
didn't even use them all," said Roni in a joking manner.

"Three seconds, you had three seconds left," Jed reminded Roni,
"besides, you get to go to California in Air Force One, I'd think
that's prize enough. And if it isn't there is always the consolation
prize of being my daughter."

"But I'm tired of my consolation prize, I want a different one, a new
one, a good one," Roni wittingly replied.

"Wise *ss," was all that Jed could manage to choke out for a comeback.

As Jed puts his arm around Roni, and begins to walk towards the door
to go find out when they are leaving, Charlie enters the room, with
very readable I-really-don't-want-to-go-on-another-plane-trip-with
-you look on his face. "Sir, the motorcade is ready to take us to
the airport," Charlie said.

"Did I detect something in that 'us'?" Jed asks, as he holds the door
open and ushers his daughter and his wife out of his office, then
shuts the door behind him.

"Probably," whispered Charlie.

"Just for that, you're gonna be my plane buddy. When we are on the
plane, wherever I go, you go. Wherever you go, I go, and I get to
teach you some really neat stuff too," Jed begun, a little hurt at
first, but ended sarcastically, yet seriously.

"Can't wait, Mr. President, oops, was that out loud?" snickered
Charlie.

"And for that, you are also my plane buddy on the way back," said
Jed, as they reached the door where the motorcade was patiently
waiting outside.

A confused Roni asks, "So I've been here for a little over two months
now, and I still don't understand why everyone is afraid of you and
your trivia. What's up with that?"

Jed begins to speak up, but Abbey beats him to answering the
question, "You don't want to now, Roni. As your mom, it's my job to
save you from having to go through the bad experiences of life, and
this is one of them. So trust me, you don't want to know. You don't
want a piece of it."

"I'm not that bad, like I told CJ a few months ago, I merely help
pass the time, and I am entertaining. What's so wrong with that?" Jed
said defensively while stepping into the limo.

"I suppose that wouldn't be so bad, if what you had to say was
actually interesting, but it's not, so that's what's wrong with that,
sweetheart," Abbey said sarcastically as the motorcade started moving.

"So now I'm regretting ever having asked, but I do think I'm
beginning to understand why everyone is so not in to your trivia,"
Roni said.

The rest of the trip to the airport was filled with playfully
insulting discussions, as each member was just having fun and trying
to not let Jed begin his trivia marathon. They all got loaded up on
Air Force One, and was ready to take off. Jed, made the call to the
pilots with a big 'ole grin on his face, and then they all went and
sat down for the take off. Abbey managed to cut-off Jed anytime he
began to ask trivia questions, which made the flight pleasant for the
staff members, something Charlie was extremely grateful for. Ten
hours later, the senior staff and the first family landed down in
California, where they had free time until the next morning, in which
they had to start their day off at 6:00 am.

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