So it was that we were both startled when we heard a car door slam outside. “Shit.”“What is it?”“Poker night. Look, don’t take this the wr...ng way, I don’t actually know what the right way to take this would be, but you have to hide.” She didn’t argue or ask questions, bolting for the basement stairs. “Not there.” She stopped, eyes wide, confused. “In the bedroom, close the door. There should be four of them coming, as soon as they’re all downstairs I’ll let you know.” She ran to me, kissed me. “Follow me and I show you where his garage is”. I got into my car as it drove terrible now and followed their truck down the road a couple of miles until we came to a run down garage with several cars in repair, old tires, car parts laying around. I didn’t see a name on the building or signs about as I went in with the one who spoke english meeting the man inside who he said is his cousin and asked him “can you fix my tire I am in a hurry”. He came out looked at it and said, “sure, but it’s. Tom replied that he did. "Good, then measure out two cups of theFifteen Bean Soup that you bought today and pour it in the water. You aregoing to let it soak for about an hour, and while that is happening wehave some work to do," she continued.Tom grabbed the bags he had bought earlier that day, took them to thekitchen, and finally put everything away. He poured the four bags ofFifteen Bean Soup into his now empty sugar container and then measuredout and put the two cups of beans to soak per. This was going to be the first grandchild on either side and everyone was overjoyed. I’m not totally sure what happened, but at eight weeks Heather lost the baby. The doctor said it sometimes just happens, but it wasn’t supposed to happen to us, to someone else, but not to us. Heather took it pretty hard. We’d already painted the second bedroom and started buying baby things to furnish the room. We were told that we were young and fertile. The next time we’d have to watch her health a lot.