”We were both laughing as I put my top on and we got up to see what was going on. Over the next couple of hours, we were split into various teams. G...rls against boys, couples, half and half and through them there were a variety of games with different forfeits. Some were drinking and some were being thrown into the sea. An egg throwing competition had those dropping the eggs being dunked into the water. Tommy and I won and when I ran up to hug him, he cracked the egg, that he had caught to win,. We hadn’t said much since the last gas stop. Giselle was still upset about the Lisa. It didn’t matter that it had only happened once or that we were technically on a break. Giselle had come home on her lunch break and found Lisa and I on the couch. This trip was supposed to be our reset button. After two days of fighting and arguing we came to that moment, that single point in time where you know – it’s do something to get back on track or walk away. I had suggested a road trip. “Come on, you. Lust at first sight, yes, but not love. I believed love arrived slowly in increments through experiencing many emotional moments with another person.I was wrong.The split-second I first saw my daughter, I fell deeply, irrevocably in love with her, not romantic love, of course, but love nonetheless. In the past, I'd also believed that to love someone meant you were more concerned about the other person's happiness than your own. I got that one right.Piper, my five-year-old daughter, was. It was a pity, but there were always new toys to be found. She stopped indulging her own thoughts and began to focus on weaving the energies around her with the movements of her hands weaving intricate patterns in the air over her prey while her mouth uttered, nearly silently, a chain of spells in a druid dialect that was dead to most, each layer designed to deepen Neral’s sleep temporarily and make her mind easier to touch when the time came. The chanting and spell weaving continued as the.