If you love me, if you love Gwen, and if you love Charlie, you’ll admit to yourself that you’ve become a woman that we’re all proud to have as a...friend, a best friend, a special friend, or do you think we’re just idiots, easily fooled by some blonde bombshell?’ ‘No! You’re not idiots. You’re the smartest, bravest, kindest people I’ve ever met. I just worry that I’m not good enough to be with people like you, that I’m only acting like a good person but I’m not really worthy.’ ‘Jordan, do you. However, he figured that a lot of bullets sprayed around would discourage anybody from trying to board us, and even unskilled shooters could do that.Graduation was on a Saturday, so we left the following Sunday for our day trip. Angie's dad presented me with a captain's hat and told me that I was now responsible for his two most prized possessions—his two daughters. They saw us off with a flourish, and we tooled out of the harbor, happy at last to escape parental supervision.Dad had assumed. Liz had finished it off with white ankle socks and black shoes.“Cool,” Beth said with a smile.“Come in, Miss,” Liz said coyly.Beth laughed as she walked in and as Liz closed the front door they hugged each other and kissed, their tongues entwining in Liz’s very welcoming mouth. Beth gave Liz another kiss before pulling away and saying, “We had better get going, young lady.”Liz looked coyly at Beth. “Yes, Miss,” she said respectfully and in fact pretty much as though she was a schoolgirl talking. John looked startled. “Sire…my ring. Where did you come upon it?”“You left it behind…during your ‘visit’.”“My ‘visit’, Sire?” By John’s tone and puzzled look Daniel could see he was not teasing…his confusion was real and a bit unsettling. If Daniel had been dreaming then where had the ring come from?“When do you last remember having had it, John?”“I removed it when grooming Oroboros this afternoon. It caught on his mane and I recall laying it on the tack room bench. I must have left it.