What is your problem?" No problem as such, Mum. It is more of help with a decision. Olu has asked me to marry him, and I have given him a provisional ...yes." Oh, my!" her mother gasped. "This is so sudden. You are still only sixteen, Susan. What do you want to marry so young for?" Mum, you already knew this might happen, so stop acting so surprised. You are just being the mother hen, protecting her chick." My goodness, you are acting so mature, young lady. But do you really think, at this point,. Rose came over with a jar of thickpink cream, which she started to place all over my face. Once she had myface covered with this thick cream, she walked back over to the table,and came back with a different jar. That's when she started to work onmy eyebrows, with this pointy pencil type thingy. I watched as shedipped the pencil into the waxy stuff from the jar. She would then workon my brow with the pencil and wax. Actually, it felt like she made apath through the eyebrow with the pencil? . She agreed without much friendliness to my bargaining for the two books, one of which looked like it had fallen into a bath at one point.I handed over the money and our eyes met. Instead of looking away, when confronted with such a direct hidden desire, and keeping this desire hidden as society instructs, I suddenly asked if she was married and happy. It was a funny question, so direct for all these books, all these thousands of ways to write around it, and here I was suddenly, the newest. ”“So what are you going to do?”“About?”“The girls.”I shrugged, “Nothing, I guess. Over the Summer I’ll see Becky, plus Clarissa is going to come hang out with me and I’m going to visit her, and I suspect Mindy will want to visit. I’ll probably hang out with Nancy and her mom a bit, too. I’m sure I’ll make some friends amongst the Summer school students as well.”“What about Maggie?”“What ABOUT Maggie? She doesn’t think I’m a Christian! I am NOT interested in some kind of inquisition, or whatever.