" She said smiling. She held her hand out as if to shake mine. I xtende my arm out of reflex. "I hope u don't mind that I am here. We saw that u were ...etting xcited by us" she was still holding my hand. Rubbing her thumb on the back of my hand. "We were wondering if u would like to play with us sometime" That made my eyes almost bulge out of my head. I felt my face flush. My breath was caught in my chest. I almost chocked on my spit. Evry part of me was tingling. "May I come in?" The look in. "Mum'll be home soon," I warned. "You might want to finish up."I heard some swearing from the other side of the door and then Rhea chastise Simon for something. I skipped downstairs and put dinner into the oven before running out the front door to meet Sarah at her football club.Sarah threw her arms around me the moment she saw me. The coach, a stout woman had Sarah do extra laps of the pitch as she was "out of condition" after Sarah had tired in the last few minutes of their recent game, and. “Think your brother will like this look, Stevie?” All her stricken husband could do was choke on the thought that his younger brother was even meeting his new wife let alone maybe seeing her on display like that. Suzanne giggled again as she went to get a cold drink and wait for their arrival. The dust devil a quarter-mile away signaled a car turning onto the long dirt driveway that ended right in front of the farmhouse. Suzanne and her husband moved to the porch as the car approached. When it. .. there’s nothing you can tell me that would upset me ... I love you so much. Tell me when you want, as long as it doesn’t concern our secret, I’m fine.”I saw her eyes glaze over a little, right when I said, ‘our secret,’ but I thought better than to have that conversation at the moment. We were just pulling up to Mom and Dad’s place.“You hungry Caroline, I feel like cooking – it’s been a while, what are you in the mood for?” I figured why not throw her a loaded question like that and see what.