" I genuinely accepted and started unpacking and mounting the thing. It did not take long and by the time she was coming back with the coffee, the tab...e was up between her sofa bed and the television set.She placed both cups on the new table and sat on the bed. "Thanks so much. I would not have managed on my own. I've been a bit silly buying this with no real means of taking it home. Come, take a sit and have your coffee, you deserve it!" she said, tapping next to her on the sofa bed.I did as. Chris said he’d have no problem letting her watch. If she wanted to join in, that’d be fine but he had no expectations of that and thought it’d be pretty hot to have a gorgeous woman watching. We decided to set up a meeting and see how it played out. The following weekend the kids went to see their dad so we agreed on that Saturday afternoon. When Chris arrived we all nervously made small talk in the living room until Rhea broke the ice. She started down the hall to the bedroom, then stopped. Would people really live in those small wooden houses?Everybody took the long wait at customs for granted, as well as the baggage check, where the old rusty belt’s noise filled the hot hall, as it deposited the luggage one ... by ... one... Yet all the local people were friendly, and assisted everybody, be it at a Caribbean pace.And the ladies started immediately to make plans what they would do first. It was already in the afternoon, so they figured the beach was out of the question, but there. Breanna heard about it fromNick, who was told by Susan, who heard about it from Toby, who read aboutit in an email from Donald.The rumors were like electrical sparks in the air, riding on their ownenergy. Pretty soon, it seemed that everyone had been told, and the newgossip became old, and the old gossip because accepted fact. They talkedabout Jasmine at the salon, and in the bars, at a meeting of theRotarians. Everywhere.Everyone agreed that Jasmine was a woman now, and she had had.