"But things weren't okay," I prompted."No. The way it's been, Franklin got more heartache from us than he had bargained for. There wasn't much sign of...anything wrong around the time we were dating or when we got married. But not too long after -- Juniper was around thirteen by then -- she started up." With boys?" With boys in school. With much older boys than her, mostly. And with grown men a few times. It was terrible, Travis. Shocking and ... and terrible." A lot of kids have to go through. You hardly said two words to me. Even Margie noticed. I guess you decided maybe things weren’t going to work out.” Sam looked at his feet, his hands stuffed in his pants pockets. He was too scared to look her in the eye.“What? Sam, look at me!” she demanded. Sam raised his eyes sheepishly. “Why would you think that? It was your idea to play it cool around the office, remember? I thought that’s how you wanted me to act!” she told him.“Uh, you mean, you do want to see me?”“Jesus, Sam, why the. She headed outside to the front where Arthur,Fred, George, and Hermione were setting up the tent that was going tobe used for the slumber party tonight. It looked very much like anordinary tent except it was currently floating in the air. ApparentlyHermione was trying to decide where the best place would be for thebloody thing."It looks quite lovely just under the tree," said Hermione."Are you sure this time?" asked Fred."Don't encourage her! We've already been floating this thing for overan. For it all, Bob. You have made me very happy and I hope that this never ends," he said with a tear in his eye.I grabbed him and held him close. "Oh, Brandon, it is YOU that has made me so very happy."We held each other close for a long time. We both were rising to the occasion, but knew we didn't have the time to really enjoy each other properly. We enjoyed just holding each other when there came a knock on the door.I opened the door to find Jon standing outside it. As Brandon and I were both.