’‘I guess I have I may as well blow…’ James laughed, ‘I can’t do this.… Yes!’ he shouted, then lowered his voice again, ‘I want to g... back to yours. I don’t know why we met here in the first place, I just want to be close to you, only you. That’s what this is after all.’‘I thought it would be romantic going on a date first.’‘And it has been but…’James’s words hung in the air as Luke picked up his phone and ordered a taxi.They weren’t all over each other in the taxi, to an unobservant eye they. Had just Maryanne done it he wouldn’t have been bothered as much. But since Babette Faure, a long-term subject of his fantasies joined her he was eager to see how the evening would play out.Carl and Pauline knew how to keep the evening in play to allow for delayed gratification, it was in no way “wham, bam, thank you, ma’am.” After dinner, they played Yahtzee and then Charades. At 11:30 they put on their party hats and began watching Dick Clark’s “Rockin’ Eve” with Ryan Seacrest. As the final. I hoped he would walk me to my car that was now some distance away from my moving it. I could just make it out in the dark.He didn’t. Just nodded and went back inside the barn. I mouthed ‘F.U!”As I got nearer to my car I again felt eyes watching me. I was now nervous and walked a little quicker before stopping dead in my tracks. Standing in front of my car was a line of eyes staring at me. I counted ten pairs of them.The inside of my thighs were very wet from the dog, human and pony semen. I. But it was a maternity dress.I checked the label. Yes. Definitely. Maternity.Which meant that I hadn't put it there. And Ken wouldn't have. So itmust have just appeared. Like my bump appeared.I thought about the frog in my throat the day before; the pallid skin;the ice-blue eyes; the pregnancy test.I didn't get pregnant. I turned into a pregnant woman. Totallydifferent thing. I'd become this pregnant woman and the same higherpower that had done it had provided me with an outfit to get.