He came and explained the situation and paid some money to get me out of there. This was over a year ago. I sat down in the couch and he sipped on the...glass of water I got him and occasionally glanced to see if he can read my face. I said - ok, so what happened in sometime back ? Ram said - the usual couple stuff. I said - OK. You better make it upto her. Get her roses or something.Ram - yeah, I should. I will take her out this evening. I did not say anything but after a few minutes, he leaned. " I said in a whimper."Perfecto mi Amor you're finally being honest with me. I'm very proud of you." Maria said smiling at me.She took my hand and pulled me into the hall closet and shut the door."Now I'm going to be honest with you, I want you to be my girlfriend, that does not mean we have to have sex yet and I'm not going to push you as much as some of these other girls would push their dates but I do want you to be openly my girlfriend and hold my hand on campus the way you did when we. I guess that puts you in an awkward position, Christie. I'm sorry about that. You know how I feel about you. I haven't changed my mind. I love you and I want you to be my wife." I know, Doug. I've thought about nothing else since we talked about it. But ... I haven't changed my mind. You're a wonderful man and a great father. I love the children to death, but there's something missing in me. It would be easy to say yes and know that you would care for me and love me for the rest of my life. But. Still, I guess it was good practice. They would disperse into the woods and then work themselves around slowly until they somehow all made a charge toward the intended target from different directions at the same time.For the life of me I couldn't discover how they signaled each other to start together. Finally I decided they were watching each other as carefully as they were watching the squirrel and when one took off they all did. Unfortunately for them, the squirrel was also watching them.