I love the way he smiled.I fucked Javon last night but told him I had to go with Jack for now but I'd be back in a couple of months. He just said, wha...ever. It kind of hurt that he didn't seem to care. Now I think, mostly I did it just to piss off Lisa. Jack not only didn't mind, he actually set up the date telling me he thought Javon deserved a try at being the daddy. I just rolled my eyes at that. It's been a couple of weeks since the party and I keep showing up negative. Luck of the dumb, I. .. and he hoped it was with him.’“Once Lisa realized Sam actually meant it, that was when SHE dropped down on her knees and asked him to marry her!”“But Sam told me...” I began, before Sue interrupted.“Lisa made him promise to never tell ANYONE she had proposed to him. And a promise that Sam makes is as good as money in the bank,” Sue added.“Wow!” I said, “That is SO beautiful. But still it must have been difficult for the two of them to reconcile two such different lives. I mean obviously Sam. Cathay’s body could not be sufficiently reconstructed for that. Other than Sheldon and his nurses, her closest staff and me, the church was empty of mourners. I buried her beside my grandfather in the little cemetery near the castle. Sheldon never really seemed to grasp the reality of Cathay’s death, but he was part of everything we did for her once I got her out of Australia and back home.Two weeks after the funeral I received a summons to appear at the offices of Cathay’s lawyers in New. She'dspent that summer researching and heard that this school had the bestmusic theatre program on the east coast, so she'd tried out. She'dperformed a scene from Billy Elliot in an attempt to subliminally tellthe scholarship committee that all she wanted to do was act but herparents wanted her to go into the family business. And it had worked, thecommittee offered her a full ride. She didn't take it though, her familycould afford tuition, and there was surely someone who needed thescholarship.