The wedding ceremony done and the reception almost over it was now their time. It had been a long time since they had had quality time together on the...r own. Even though they had lived together for almost five years, Carol had been three months pregnant when they set up home together and apart from a few nights alone here and there they had had almost no time of any length alone together. Now they were husband and wife and all alone. Carol leaned over to Noel in the backseat of the car and. I couldn't believe it. This was Sam.Sam!This was the girl who didn't care about her appearance. Who was so focused on her schoolwork that she hardly paid attention to anything else. There were days when I was certain she never spoke a word, just lost in her head thinking about whatever subjects had attracted her attention. I had no idea I was one of those subjects.No wonder she put up with me.She stood there, waiting for my answer. I swallowed, A strange exhilarating and frightening sensation. How’s Stephie?” I asked.“Good. She’s getting ready for school to start again. She’s feeling fine.”“Where are you guys going for your honeymoon?”“Nassau, in the Bahamas” he said. “But not until school is out. Sorry, but I need to get back to work.”“I understand,” I said.We shook hands and Kara gave him a quick hug. We decided to walk up and down the garage area and check out the other teams before heading back to Bill’s garage. We ran into Dave and Julia in David Pearson’s garage. There were. Marie made Jesse feel she was special, now she was a woman; though she still worried what that might mean to Cavendish. Thirteen year olds were married mothers in some states, she looked at her daughter and thought ‘not yet please God’.Still, now there were three women, they all agreed, and if she wasn’t actually a part owner if the mine like her mother, she had a vote in important decisions.“Conference time” said Mary “Is it time to give up? Maybe Papa was wrong, we haven’t seen anything, not.