Therefore, I was not bothered by this little escapade.I continued to rock along, taking seriously only the driver's ed class I was enrolled in. The te...cher was very impressed with my grasp of the details of the proper way to drive and agreed that all I needed was practice. I worked hard, and the instructor agreed that I was ready to take the exam for my license any time I wanted to. The problem, now, was that I needed a car to use for my exam, and I didn't have one. The only person who might. I pulled my smart phone out of my pocket, and proceeded to bring up my photo gallery. I located 'the shot' – the one of Wendy in the pizza place in Chengdu – and handed the phone to Odalys."She's beautiful, Jake," Odalys commented after a moment's inspection. She then handed the phone to her husband, who expressed his approval with a tongue-in-cheek grin."Like I said earlier, Jake, you don't have a hair on your ass if you don't..." Jose's comment was cut off by an elbow from his laughing. I’ll be taking that underwear off her body by the end of January or I’m a Dutchman.Christmas Day came and David had managed to find a fairly small goose which he had stuffed and roasted with all the vegetable trimmings. For sweet there was a traditional plum pudding with white sauce, also cooked by him. The wine was a very tasty red which she did not recognise, called Barolo, which David explained was one of his favourites and which, as he put it, “could stand up to the red cabbage”.“Do the. It was as close as I could get to telling you how I feel.” “Feel – not felt?” she asked, her lip quivering. He nodded. “I think about you constantly. I compare every girl to you, and they all pale by comparison. That’s sort of why I haven’t dated much.” He let her hand go then and cleared his throat. “I’ll go. I know I must be annoying you, staring at you like a moon-eyed puppy. I won’t do that again,” he said, gesturing toward the roses. “I’m sorry.” “No,” Marie blurted out before she could.