When they reached near bed, he led her to sit in bed. Instead she embraced Prakash. They were standing next to bed.Prakash not only allowed her but he...too embraced her and said never worry I will keep you with me forever. Prakash too had tears in his eyes, but he continued solacing Jaya with caresses on her back and keeping in his tight embrace. Slowly intensity of crying by Prakash increased.His sobs were not loud but heavy and coming from his heart. He was crying from the deep of his heart. " Am I?" Lonnie's big brown eyes looked down and she bit her lip. "Do you still love me?" Oh yeah, Lonnie," I said, helping the petite girl climb onto my lap. This wasn't the first time we'd done this. "Did you take your pill today?" Uh-huh," she replied, showing off her braces and the dimples in her cheeks. "I take one everyday, just like you said." Good girl." I held the fourteen year old in my arms and she was only barely that; Lonnie's birthday had been just a few weeks before."We're gonna. That means her baby’s going to come, probably today,” I said.“Oh. I knew that. I thought it was something else. Mama Sam is going to be surprised,” Xan said as if everyone should have known.“I think she knows she’s going to have a baby, honey,” I laughed. “Is Mommy on her way? I can’t leave the bakery yet.”“Mommy said she’ll be here soon and Mama Cass is coming, too.”“And nobody’s gettin’ fat except Mama Cass,” I sang. Xan didn’t get it.What a night it had been last night. In fact, all weekend.. It really had been a very debilitating illness, that bout of the flu. I get my shots every year now, I learned my lesson. Cest was my hero, my nurse, my caring attendant while my husband was away and I was confined to my sick bed. When the worse had passed and I was still recovering my strength and simply being tired, rather than exhausted, Cest made his move. If it had been when I was well, and only napping, or if he had not been so wonderful in his bedside manner and committed to my.