# # # “When he looked at me, I had the oddest reaction to him….I wanted to withdraw and hide from him. Those eyes of his seemed to be reading me ...ike a book, with complete concentration and without the least bit of decorum. He seemed not to care if the company he was with noted his scrutiny of me. Nor did the fact that he was married render him the least bit circumspect in his attentions to me. His eyes were a light blue, complimented nicely by sandy blond hair, which he wore neatly trimmed.. " Hi, Joseph. How have you been doing this week?" Pretty okay, I guess. I, um, didn't get a chance to talk to you lastSunday, you were kind of busy, but I wanted to say..." His face got redand he stammered for a few moments before mumbling something inaudibleand hurrying away."He's definitely got a crush on you," Sophia whispered in my ear."I think you're probably right," I replied in a low voice. "Do youthink I should go talk to him?" Can't hurt."Joseph had been heading toward the vestibule,. I looked at my chest. "Oh no!" My nipples were now exactly how I hoped they wouldn't be. "Damn it," I said, annoyed with myself. Suddenly I thought I could take someone's eye out! I covered my mouth with my hand as I giggled and my face flushed all over again. Johan stepped up behind me and I almost jumped out of my skin. I thought it was a robber! "Don't do that!" I whined.He chuckled as his hands found my hips and he smiled at me in the reflection of the mirror. "Enjoying yourself?" he. The children would have good barter." Offered John. The children were already making their own tiny kites, because they didn't want to wait too long for their turn to fly John's bigger kite. John borrowed some pigment from one of the aunties, and painted a fierce scowling dragon's face on the kite, which made the children giggle and scream in mock fear when he swooped it down at them as if it was attacking. It was great fun.Suddenly seven men appeared on the crest of a ridge, holding two of the.