He came back up and opened his eyes and looked back at her, marveling at the warm, blue eyes that just opened, the soft luscious lips that had gently ...pened and let in a breath of air, the now rosy red cheeks that were so soft that Alex felt were delicate to the touch, the dirty blonde strand that fell in her face. ‘I promise you will be aware of everything that happens to you from now on. I will love you until you go to whoever is waiting for you,’ he said quietly. She tried to sit up. ‘But. He mother wasn't any help either just docilely sitting on the couch smiling while her father ranted and raved. He finally stopped when she went into her bedroom and slammed the door shut.Before they had moved in with her Mia had thought that old age had probably mellowed her father but she found out that wasn't the case either one Sunday. The three of them had planned on attending church, her father and mother dressing up like people did in the fifties, her father in a suit and tie and her. She softly rubbed the tip of her nose across his chest before kissing his sternum. Her tender fingers lovingly slid from his chest to caressing his neck.David was breaking. He closed his eyes and began to breathe heavily "It's been so long….." David was beginning to give into her embrace.She whispered" You smell so good." "Destinee…" He called out to her"Yes?" She softly answered him, kissing his chest and pulling herself tightly into him."You don't have to do this." He lifted his hands to. "When one of my classmates gave it to me, I was afraid to touch it for the longest time." Classmate when?" Karen asked, leaning forward and pointing it at her. "You've had this for awhile, I know." It was someone in my Sunday school class," she said softly. Karen understood; in church, she'd heard kids refer to Marilyn as the "ice queen." Karen passed it off as a by-product of her desire to enter the Sisterhood. "It was someone who couldn't believe Deanna was my sister."Now Karen really.