Diana's my best friend. But not if she keeps standing there gawking at me while I'm getting acquainted with ... my husband!"Husband?!! Yes ... I'll ma...ry you... Tom smiled widely at her. He looked at the shocked faces of Charles and Diana. "Well ... we appreciate you two arranging for us to meet, but you heard the lady! You two stop gawking at us and go get ready for your cookout! We'll be out to help you in a little while! Go on, now! Beat it! I want to get to know my wife a little better!". Are you mad?"'Mad', He thought, he was mad all right but not angry.Mad, insane, obsessed all those words. Notions flashed around his head, plans and ideas, all crazy.'Run away together', and, 'Scoot down to Vegas and marry secretly before her parents found out'.All crazy, all disastrous for them.Mo's silence scared Shari. She wanted him to say something, anything, but most of all she wanted him to say he loved her too.The words had tumbled out of her. Tumbled out in the heat and emotion of the. On the eighth pace back to the right he ran into the corner of the horse barn He inched his way to the side door and tied off the rope to the bull nose clip screwed into the door frame.He sighed his mild relief and threw the light switch on. The dim light bulb powered by his emergency generator began to glow. He cut through the horse barn into the dairy barn. As he left the horse barn he turned the light off. Jesse opened the rear barn doors and stepped back as the milk cows shoved at. Scott shared a look with the angry pedestrian. College students really were the worst drivers.Despite the cold, he took the long way to the building for the exercise. The building, he thought. He still hadn't decided what to call it in his own head. An entire building wasn't an apartment, as he had told Janie he was moving into. The top floor would qualify as a loft, but that left two more floors. You couldn't call a three-story downtown building a house. Maybe a residence? His place? He shook.