She had the figure of a goddess and the face of an angel. Her long, auburn hair hung in riotous curls to her firm buttocks. She smiled at the reflecti...n and almost felt sorry for the poor son-of-a-bitch. He didn't stand a chance.It took a mere twenty minutes to drive to his place. She gave her hair a toss before ringing the doorbell. In moments he was at the door looking irritated by the interruption."What do YOU want?" he asked. "I thought..." Paul stopped short as his eyes took in her. I realised that they couldn’t see me through the voile as my lights were off, to them it would be just darkness - Emma had thought this through well. I didn’t know how to react to the situation. I couldn’t make a single sound as they’d almost certainly come to investigate, but I couldn’t just sit there to watch what was likely to be happening. I was lost. To my dread, Emma approached the curtains as though going to open them, but she just slipped her head through and put a finger to her lips,. Even though dad was famous for his thrift, his wife was GOING to have a wedding set. I thought about that wedding set hidden up in my room. "Maybe tomorrow. I'm not really up to shopping right now".The conversation turned back to the baby. MY baby.For all my life dad had squeezed every penny for all it was worth. He rambled on and on about the value of a dollar. To hear him speak you would think we were going to lose the house at any given moment. As a family we rarely got a new car and. It was totally engulfed in flames when we got here. It burned to the ground."I looked at Pap and he looked at me, and then we looked at the women. When we turned back to the Sheriff he said. "It's still burning so we can't look to see what happened."Just then the Sheriff's radio squawked, and he was called back. I went back into the Ford and Pap to the truck. I told the women what had happened and the emotions flowed. Tears and crying and we were stuck in the Ford and couldn't hold one another..