"A little bit. I think Mom and your mom ganged up on us tonight. I think they've both decided you and I are destined to be together." I think they're ...ight," I said, pulling her close to me. "I think that is our destiny. I love you, Deb, and I want you to be my wife. I want you with me always."She smiled and kissed me, making it last quite a long time. "I love you, Ian. I've been waiting for you to ask me. You must have known I'd say yes." I wasn't sure," I admitted. "But I knew, even before. I think. We’d skipped having a Halloween party because Kate and I were too stressed, so people were making up for it tonight. Lissa and Wendy dragged Kate and me into the bedroom as soon as we walked in the door. I was never going to live this down. Last year I’d been showing off my muscles in a slave costume that was supposed to be Spartacus. Lissa and Melody had come up with the theme for this year’s party and it was cross-dressing. They had me out of my jeans and into a dress so fast my head. “Whatever man,” he said smiling “you guys were probably going at so hard, you might have swapped freckles!”. He could have been right Anna and I both had a handful of freckles across the bridge of out noses, but I still was never one to ‘kiss and tell’. I stepped up to the free urinal and let my stream go all the while trying to look nonplussed. Tom withdrew and went to the sink behind Owen, I repeated myself to them saying nothing happened. “Dude, Anna’s always had a thing for you, it’s not a. It took him a few seconds before he looked at me. He leaned forward and brushed my hair out of my face. "Your mouth is so sweet." "Thank you," I whispered. "You look very tired," he said, cocking his head at me. "Come here," he ordered, gesturing to the floor between his legs. "Face away from me." I did and he unhooked my wrists. The cuffs remained in place but they didn't restrain me. Then, like he had before, he rubbed my neck and jaw until the aching stopped. "You'll sleep in here, in that.