"I nodded. "Yes, I think I should return home and warn the kids. This is going to be rough on them."Nathan agreed and after I had made sure that all t...e payments were complete, I found myself in the car and driving home.Maria home greeted my early arrival with much concern. She immediately started brewing some tea, after giving me Debra's evening number. "She'll want to hear about this tonight," she told me.Debra was both concerned and excited to hear my call, and told me that she would rush to. I then walked towards a path that was about 50 yards away and in doing so passed two of the cars. I am not sure if my shaking was nerves or the cold, anyway my shoes were making that lovely clicking sound and I walked to the path and then decided to turn around and walk back to my car. Then as if by magic there were two men by the car that was nearest to mine and both in their late 30’s. They said Good Evening, complimented me on my dress and started to make light coversation. I said straight. .. Rose, I really love her." Yeah. Everybody can tell. And it's not like she isn't with you all the time, but..." But what?" You're not on the same page, you know. I know you want to do more than bake cookies with her—but please don't stop doing that. Those oatmeal cookies you two brought to school Monday were wonderful! I just know that she isn't where you are. Have you even kissed her?" Yeah. Um ... at Christmas when she gave me the cookbook." Once? With, you know, everything? Like we did. --- They had been driving for some hours now, the girls were all still asleep. Sarah tried to read a book while Robert was driving. She had never been a good sleeper. Seeing her daughter and her friend lying there so comfy, reminded her of this. The book she had been reading wasn’t what she expected. It made her carsick, another trouble she often had, on top of the bad sleeping. She couldn’t even remember what the last three pages had been about, she put the book away. She looked at Robert,.