After a momentary pause I found myself bobbing my head up and down, my golden hair bouncing around my head as I shyly said, "Well, okay..."It didn't t...ke him long to lock the front door and flip over the "Be Right Back" sign on the door, and soon I was walking side by side with him down the aisle to the back of the store. He was acting very casual, chatting about innocuous things like the weather and stopping a couple times to adjust a DVD on a shelf or something. I just gripped my backpack,. As a matter of fact, they had stayed over even whilst Grace was living there, with James bedding down on the sofa in the lounge. I liked the guy that Grace married. He was a big shot at one of my company’s clients and to be honest he suited Grace down to the ground. I got the feeling that Grace had known him much longer than she ever let on to me, it could be that he might have visited my office many years previous, before I worked there and whilst he was lower in the pecking order at his own. "Oh my God! Mom, are you pregnant?" asked Bev. When Tina didn't answer Bev said, "What part of be careful didn't you understand when we had our talk? How far along are you?"Tina spoke. "A little over two months. I didn't think I would get pregnant at forty-four. I'm sorry if I embarrassed you girls. We didn't mean for it to happen. That's why we want to get married soon" Technically you were forty-three at the time, Mom," said Sue. "By my calculations it must have happened at the reunion. I. Alex, baby--just goto your room and we'll talk tonight after supper. I needto think about what you've just said. I'm not mad atyou, but I'm certainly not happy either. I need time tothink about what I'm going to do about your problem."I went up stairs to my room feeling flushed fromnervousness and embarrassment for what I'd just done.It felt good getting it off my chest, yet at the same time,I also felt mad at myself for coming clean with myproblem and for being cursed. Why did this have.