The brave brunette turned and strode away, tugging Amber with her to the cashier, who sat in silence from shock. Amber looked back anxiously, her inno...ent green eyes making contact with his icy blue ones. He locked onto her eyes with a force that made Amber almost flinch. The redhead quickly spun back around. She could still feel his burning gaze staring a hole through her back. The man’s friends laughed at the blue-eyed man, punching him in the shoulder. He told them to knock it off and. Two minutes, he's happy, I'm frustrated." "I don't know why, Karen, you're really a beautiful woman. He should know better; if he treats a pretty woman that way, she's gonna look elsewhere." "Well, Ron, that's why I wanted you two to get the chance to meet each other. You didn't seem to be the kind to treat a woman that way," said Betty. "No, my mother'd kill me for one. No, I respect women, that's just the wrong way to treat anyone, and such a pretty one, well, that I really don't understand.". ”“OK. Here goes.“The place wasn’t too busy and we we found a table right off. Far enough away from the music but close enough to the dance floor.”Julian touched my forearm.“It’s an ‘all-gender’ place, Dad, you know?”I nodded.“So it was no big deal if I danced with Harper first.”Another swallow. Once more I filled Julian’s glass.“I wasn’t trying to look like anything other than myself, I mean, this part of myself.”“And he did, Dad,” Harper put in. “He looked great.”Harper leaned over to kiss. He was already reading Shakespeare, Chaucer, and even works by John Calvin. Not to mention other works by modern day authors. He even read and understood Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Junior was frustrated because no one wished to discuss what he read or understood what he had read. So he seldom talked and had his nose in a book. At that time he was reading about the two great wars of the twentieth century. Of all the leaders of the armed forces, he felt that the real hero of the war was.