”“Thanks, Dad. I’ll do that if she does not mind me tagging along.”“You know I will be glad to have you along. Riding the Indian to the pond...with you reminds me of the days when your dad and I rode up there to swim.”I heard Roger choke and cough. He put his hand to his throat and said, “Went down the wrong pipe.”Carol was smiling with her back turned to Bobby, trying to choke down a laugh. I somehow kept from laughing. Being oblivious to our inside joke, Bobby took another sip of coffee and. And my bangs had a slight curl at the bottomwhere they rested gently on my shoulders. I was going to tell Allisonwhat I thought of her efforts when I noticed the apprehensive andhopeful look on her face and I didn't want to hurt her feelings so Ijust said, "Uh, yeah, like, it's okay. I mean it's better than that.It's good. Um, and I like it", and smiled at her.She got this happy look on her face and gave me this really big smileback and I was glad that I hadn't hurt her feelings. As I was. “You ever think that we’d reach this point,” I asked.“Right from the very start.” The organist switched to the pomp, and the bride entered the doorway. “Here she comes. Isn’t she beautiful?”“White suits her very well.”“It does.” She sighed. “I can’t wait for tonight.”“Steady, girl.”“Well, I can’t.”“You’re going to have to.” I decided to distract her.“Sherry looks nice in full dress.”“I like how all the medals draw attention to her chest.”“Brat.”“Yes, I am.” She looked up to me. “She does have. I caught the thought as we hit the second floor landing.The part of us that was Ginny reached out with our gift and jumped us into the kitchen.Loretta, Con, Eru, Chet and Mike were already in the kitchen. The rest of the Legion were in the new Montecristo station, happily building our database of information on the peoples of the Mediterranean region. Pete had been unable to deny his inner marine biologist, and was gleefully taking water samples and doing other basic research on the marine.