I tried the door, but it’s locked.”We didn’t have to puzzle over it much longer as Brent’s RAV-4 pulled up behind our car just after.“Sorry,...we’re late!” Emma said, hopping out of the passenger side door. “We had to get Bruiser squared away for dinner in case things ran late here.”“No worries,” Jess said. “How ‘bout you tell us why we are all here?”“How ‘bout I just show you?” Emma said, reaching into her pocket. She pulled out a set of keys and unlocked the front door of the store.She walked. 10:30 AMDon DeLucia was waiting outside the hospital as an orderly brought Tom out in a wheel chair and he helped him into the car. They drove without speaking to Tom's house. Once inside the house Tom told Don what he needed done."I need you to go upstairs and into the front bedroom on the right. Get two suitcases out of the walk in closet, then go into my bedroom and empty my socks and underwear into one of the bags. Then fill the other bag with some of the clothes from my closet. I'll need. We have plans.She’s over there watching me while I ponder her statement. I know she worries that she’s taking me away from some dream or some goal. That’s just it, though – before Gee, I didn’t have a goal. I didn’t have a dream. I was like a bit of driftwood, going where the winds and currents took me.“I have Gee,” I said. I turned to her. “I am going to love sharing this with you in the winter.”Something in her wiggle told Pickles that he ought to find another spot. His absence let Gee slide. But that would violate your belief that sex is reserved for marriage.”“In a perfect world, I would only make love with the man I loved more than any other in the world, and only after we were betrothed. I love you Mishka, and I want to make love with you, no matter what happens afterwards.”“Are you SURE about that? Or do you think that once we make love, I’ll feel as if I’ve made a commitment to you? Or,” I said with a slight smile, “do you think making love with you will be so glorious that I.