.. Why...” She kept trying to phrase what she wanted to ask, but kept stuttering to a halt.“You didn’t tell her?” I asked Emma and she beamed....��I figured that should be something you do,” she said brightly.“During the summer I was dating four girls,” I said. “Then someone started a rumor about me, they believed it, they broke up with me and treated me pretty badly. That’s the short version.”“The girls next door?” she asked.I nodded. “The same Powers sisters the fight at school started over. When. I don’t know why, but they seemed to see something in me that gelled with them and with you three as a unit.”“Kathleen, I am pleased that you think in this way. If the Admin department are happy, you can get in touch with your parents and invite them to our wedding. It will be a small affair, without the other parents being present, as I don’t see much point in inviting them again. This one is for you and your family. I want them to find you fit and healthy, and I hope, happy.”Before she could. She dreamt of how it would be to call up her hubby in the evening from office and tell him in a romantic requesting tone that she would be latedue to a recruitment drive and hence would return home a little late after having dinner out with Shamit and Riyan followed by a small drink at a local longue. She dreamt of trying a variety of different drinks like Vodka, Rum, Whisky, Black Label, Johnny walker, Gene, Beer, Brandy, Teachers, Old Monk, Smirnoff with Soda and What not ? After all, why. I had seen her earlier in the store. She stopped coming to work in between and I assumed she had quit. I was pleasantly surprised to see her again, from her looks, as in she had put on more weight all at the right places, I realized she had gotten married and had a baby. That kept her away from work, and she had just joined back.The store was pretty much deserted being the afternoon hours and I sat down in front of her to pay my bills. She is usually dressed in her T shirt and jeans as their.