Be careful! To give her injury or slight might provoke her terrible brothers." Nay, why would a man give slight to a Maid of such uncommon beauty and ...race? I am thinking courtship, not dalliance. Were it only I wasn't promised already!"He heard some more whispered comments about her. For once, he was not tempted to bash heads. The men were sincere in their praise, after all.The Dean of Sternfels performed the ceremony with much ado and the choir sang endless hymns. It took almost three hours. ..As he was finishing up in the tub, his mobile rung for the fourth time...breakin' news, I'm on my mob shit, all this ice on me, you ain't gone rob shit, who want it, who want it... (Darnell's ringtone, Yo Gotti's Who Want It)Darnell wrapped the towel around him, walked out the bathroom singing. Which he was pretty good at. He looked at his phone, saw he had four missed calls and 10 text messages. There were two missed calls from his sister, one missed call from this bi-racial girl he was. I'll have lunch ready. Then we can go to the meeting together," she said. "And maybe we can hang out a little after the meeting, too." That would be nice. Well, I guess I'll see you at the kitchen Saturday." OK," she said. She turned away from me, got her key out of her purse and opened the door."Holly?" I said.She turned to face me again. "Yes, James?"I pulled her to me and kissed her. I had intended it to be a light friendly kiss, and that is how it started. But it lingered. And grew. Her. .Let's go and knock them dead," as the3 of them walked out of the bedroom with me shyly following them."Just stay here a moment before you come out Steph" Lois told me as weneared the back door. "Wend and I are just going to set the scene foryou," as the two of them walked out into the backyard headed for theBBQ, which had a throng of people jostling for food. I stood inside thedoor with a feeling like a dozen butterflies were fluttering aroundinside of my stomach while Angela held my hand.