I look so uncomfortable, confused—scared. What is the audience thinking? It’s too far away for me to read the comments, but what if they hate it? ...hat if they don’t find me good enough? Will Mara cancel the adoption? Will she hate me?I really wish I could just turn off whatever part of my brain was panicking and pretend I’m into it, but I can’t. In a last attempt to find something to save me I look back at Mara, still uninterested in me or the stream. Is this why she adopted me? Was it just for. He ignored her indignant shouts from the front door and pedaled away as fast as he could.Richie had lapsed into sullen silence by the time his mother drove them back home after church.Well after church, Richie realized with resentment. He had been forced to wait around in the car while Sandra flirted with a man that had to be ten years her junior. It had been obvious where the conversation had been leading, for she had playfully slapped a hand from her body three times. Each time she had let. ....” responded Margaret. I jumped to my feet and flung on a pair of shorts and t-shirt and rushed through the living room where the two were talking, Alison not believing any of the rubbish Margaret was telling her and when she caught an eyeful of my half erect cock sticking out protected only by a pair of shorts, she had already worked out what was going on. Margaret didn’t hang around however, and quickly escaped leaving me and my mother in law standing looking at one another, me completely. The inclusion of the vast regions ceded by France at the conclusion of the French and Indian Wars made the British pleased at their victory but in actuality they had only won for the ultimate true winner, the American Settlers of the New World.The following is a fictional account of the upheaval of lives in the midst of the chaotic fighting of the French and Indian wars and it is presented hopefully without bias for either side.1760The UplanderIn the dark shadows under the spreading hardwood.