"Uhhhh...I'm...I'm without a ride home. Um, did you drive at all" he asked.She had. She always drove. She asked if he needed a ride home and he said y...s. No expectations. None at all. They decided they'd had enough and called it quits, leaving her friends there at the bar. They had driven. They could get home. No problem for them. So she grabbed her jacket and purse and Caroline and Clay were out of there."You go girl" one of them said quietly to her. She hadn't heard what was said."So you grew. Like most wedding there was much to do and he was to find that not only was he 'giving the bride away' but was also being asked to handle the gifts and transport the bridesmaids back to where the bridal car had picked them up from. The only concern was space, especially if there were many gifts and especially if they were big for he had to also accommodate the bridesmaids and his vehicle was the smallest of the 4x4 on the market. 'Just hope the women aren't fat', he grunted when his cousin. She putthe disk in an endless loop and had him memorize the way the fashionmodels glided rather than just walked. She pointed out that it wasn'tabout getting from one point to the next, rather it was all about how theystepped and moved their hips that made the difference. For the next hour,they watched the scantily clad models sashaying their keisters across thescreen.George's attention was riveted on the skimpily clad well-built, somewhatdim woman. Ellen rushed to the bedroom and returned. She'dbe safe enough on her own property, and a short passage ofsolitude would help her begin to put things back inperspective.Quietly exiting the house, Jane at first wandered aimlesslyabout the moon-shadowed grounds. After a time, she foundherself at the entrance to the stables. She peeked insidebut saw that Teddie and Garters were soundly sleeping. "Youtwo have better sense than I do," she murmured lovingly.She left as quietly as she'd entered, and resumed her walk,this time with a definite.