It's been a really great week, a week I'll never forget." She looked at my parents, at Vikki, at Madeleine and finally at me. "Thanks to these really ...pecial people here, and," she turned to Vikki, "Vikki's beautiful parents." Well I'm glad Madeleine, because I have this feeling that you deserve it." She indicated the grand main entrance as she turned to each of us in turn before finally settling her gaze on my parents. "Now if you'll just make your way inside my husband or maybe one of the. She had always had a defiant streak but until this day, had never gone so far. She'd pushed too hard and now she had to pay for that. She knew this, but that didn't stop the tears from gathering in her eyes and crawling down her flushed cheeks. She heard him shift in the darkness, her head cocking toward the sound, but her eyes remained down cast. Her whole body trembled, almost afraid of what he'd come up with as her punishment. In her heart she knew he'd never do anything to truly hurt her. Mr. Gist scratched his head to think about the rest of the story. "I think there was something about one of your relatives serving in the Confederacy."Josh thought back to his family tree that his Grandmother sent him years ago. The name slipped his mind, but he did remember seeing a portrait of his hanging in hallway when he use to visit his Grandmother. "I can't think of his name, but I knew that." I saw it written in a book somewhere. I will have to look it up. Well he had taken over the. He lead the way to an older model ford, one of the ones with a single large bench seat in the cab and a rather large bed in the back. He opened her door for her and she pulled herself inside before he closed it for her. Once he was in he started the vehicle up with a loud rumble. “Sorry, he said smiling embarrassed, the exhaust pipe busted off an I ain't had a chance to fix it yet.” “Oh I don't mind one bit.” She said as she slide across the bench seat to sit next to him. Her leg pressed.