He’d noticed her looking at him sometimes while her thoughts were somewhere else. They still had the easy banter they’d enjoyed practically since ...rin could talk - she might have inherited her mother’s looks, but she’d gotten Tom’s sardonic sense of humor - but every now and then she seemed to drift off in the middle of their verbal dueling. Then again, Tom knew Brin wasn’t the only one who’d acted strangely this morning. Before she’d jolted him out of his catnap, Tom had been in the middle of. Ms. Stanwyck," hesaid adding a greeting with a nod as he left through the kitchen door.Moments later his car could be heard pulling away and driving off. JoAnnewas already busy clearing dishes as Ms. Kenner sipped her coffee andlooked on. She took some papers and a pen from her purse and unfolded thecontract like pages onto the table before sliding them aside."You keep an immaculate home Ms. Kenner," she said as she watched JoAnnemincing about the kitchen, her hips swaying a bit more than. “I take it that things didn’t go so well,” I said to my friend, as he angrily drove down a dirt road toward home. He did not respond to my comment. I watched him drive for a bit and then noticed that his right hand was bleeding. “What did you do to your hand, man?” “I punched the truck,” Kmart Cowboy responded in a monotone. “That must have been that loud banging sound I heard.” I paused for a moment while we continued to drive on in silence. “So what now?” I. ’ ‘I see…’ Another pregnant pause. ‘Where do you wanna go?’ she asked. I simply shrugged. As another comfortable silence befell us, it was clear that something was drawing us closer together. I knew that I was dooming myself by being in Rose’s presence in such a romantic location in clear view of anyone passing by the large starlit lawn. Yet, I felt powerless to do anything to bring this moment to an end. I longed to reach for her hand, to pull her to me and feel her lips parting for me. I.