”“We will, as soon as we go back, but for now, lets just think about us,” I smiled.She returned the smile. “I don't think that'll be hard to d....”We finished feeding the ice cream to each other, getting a few looks from random people and couples that walked past us, and we loved it, it was like we were being acknowledged to the world. When we finished we walked hand in hand to the van, kissed a little, got in and drove off, unsure of where to go next, but not wanting to go back to the house so. Even though they were still wearing the cover-ups, the beautiful women were still getting admiring looks from their boys. Tyler couldn’t take his eyes off of Charlotte. She had tied her brunette hair up, and he was really taken by her perfect facial features and smooth, olive skin. And even though he had been lucky enough to catch a few brief glimpses of her naked body the day before, he still wanted to see the curves that were now hiding under the loose beach shirt she was wearing.Charlotte. I passed Hanna at the door and waved at her."Hi, Mom, how are you feeling now?" I'm doing much better now, Ronald. I just had a very nice time talking to your new lady friend. She is quite interested in you, son. She wanted to know more about you."I was flabbergasted, "What did you tell her?" Relax, Ronald, I didn't give away any deep dark secrets, as if you have any."Mom was tired now and I didn't get much more out of her. She kept forgetting what we were talking about, so I didn't press as I. We were drinking coffee and kibitzing about how to heal the rift that was growing between El Paso’s Anglo and Mexican communities. During this time, as it was in my future, the rift was caused mainly by two things. The first was that many of the Mexican-Americans did not feel a need to assimilate; they continued to act as if Texas and New Mexico were still part of Mexico.The second problem was the bigotry that people like Charles Howard brought with them when they settled in the El Paso area..