He was serious. Though Iregularly visited the temple, it was the first time in overforty days that either of us had actually mentioned thetemple. I wa... stunned for a moment. "Yeah, right." I saidin a disbelieving tone."You do want to get back to normal, right?" Reed said a bitconfused and a bit hopeful as well.I looked at him with a look of scolding confirmation. "Ofcourse I do." I snapped. "I am just..." Just what?" I don't know if this is going to lead to anything." Well, if no one comes for. ”“And Susie?”“She’s doing well. Still in college. No real change otherwise.”“It sounds like things are going really well for the kids who escaped.”“I heard that Kent van der Meer is pastoring a small house church,” Kara said.“That sucks,” I said. “The man is truly dangerous.”“Mom told me that four families from Grace started a new church and asked him to be their pastor. Now that Sandy is over eighteen, I guess being Hester Prynne doesn’t matter anymore.”I shook my head and remained silent. The colors of the trees were just starting to be their beautiful shades of yellows, bronzes, and reds when there was a three day span of killing frosts; and that ended that with an icy abruptness!However, I had my glory hole to find comfort and solace in; and perhaps it was because of the sudden drop in temperature, and end of Autumn's normal glory of color, but I suddenly found lots of interest in my glory hole! My In Box was full of inquiries, and I went from a month long hiatus of no. Probably, why not?” Mia was casually stroking Grace’s ear.“It seems a bit easy, and I was getting the feeling Claude isn’t really sure.”“Well that’s all we could do, and we did it.” Mia was getting up. “Thanks to you being awesome. I’m going to see the boys, you want to come?” she grinned, teasing but meaning it.“I think I’ll go and ask Claude.” Grace wasn’t ready to get fucked, just yet. She didn’t really want Mia to go and get fucked either, but she had to be reasonable. And realistic.“You.