He then asked me if I would like a drink and I said yes please and he went to bring me one back and as we were drinking he was chatting about his hous... and how many room were in it and asked if i would like a tour not thinking I said sure would love to so he took me up stairs and showed me aroundthrough all of the bedrooms and bath rooms and then we wealked back down stairs to the main floor and we got a few more drinks and he said ready for the rest of the tour I said ok so we walked through. I began to dance in front of him, making sure to leave just enough space between us that he couldn’t touch me — yet. As my hips swayed before him, I caressed my body with my hands, running them lightly over my breasts, down my flanks to my hips, and finally back over across my mound and up my belly. At the time, my belly was just beginning to swell with the life growing inside me. While I was still able to wear regular clothes, there was a soft, subtle roundness to my lower abdomen that. I noticed a framed collage of photographs on his wall, it was from our school days together. I recognized many friends’ faces. My eyes landed on one photo of a large group on a camping trip, I was surprised to see myself in the picture – with Dylan standing behind me, his hands on my shoulders. Ireturned to the sofa, I didn’t want to look around anymore. The evening passed slowly. I consciously avoided my dark thoughts and overwhelming uncertainty, but I wasn’t able to focus on anything else. Then, I noticed that Paul nodded his head in what appeared to be affirmation to whatever Darla had said to him. I knew that they would walk to the end of our street and then return back past my home on the way back to theirs, and I wanted them to stop again so I could check out Darla more carefully. I went down my driveway and broke a branch off of my rosemary bush and took it back out to the street to wait for them to come back by. When they got back, I said, “Darla, do you know what this is?”.