Mary was my wife, and the four of us had vowed to join our lives together, and these three wonderful lives were now inexorably intertwined with mine.A...ter the ceremony, Aimee walked out of the banquet room, and arranged for our meals. When she came back, she was accompanied by Mely and June, Debbie's employees.Mely and June kissed Mary and me in congratulations, and then we introduced them to Judge McHenry while Aimee handed out menus to everybody.For entertainment, Aimee had managed to get CDs. I looked around the floor and noticed that it was messy; I looked around the cupboards and found a vacuum cleaner, this I used to push the dirt around and away until I thought it was good enough and then I checked again to ensure it was good enough for Mistress Sharon.After putting the cleaner away I washed my hands and turned my attentions to food. I hadn't been lying to Pauline when I said I could do better than beef-burgers! When I was at home — my home not the one that we had to move into —. ’ ‘What about the fact that you were going to have my child, then? Doesn’t that matter, either?’ She stood motionless, silent and staring for an instant. ‘I never wanted you to find that out, but somehow you did.’ ‘It doesn’t really matter, does it? What matters is that I’m not going to let you go. I can’t. God, Karen, I’m in love with you. And you’re killing me with this.’ ‘Then come with me. But please, Alex, don’t try to stop me. We’ll both end up getting hurt.’ ‘Jesus, Karen, I wish you. It'sfunny how all this originally had been my idea, but I had ended upwith next to no say so in how we went about it.Mom was zipping me into the dress when Shelly came back into mybedroom decked out in the dress she was wearing. I was in awe, I hadnever seen her in a dress or even makeup before and she was gorgeous.She was going as a princess from this old movie her and Rachel loved,while Rachel was going as the swashbuckling pirate love interest. Ialmost laughed, as uncomfortable as I felt in.