It had only been about a month on the job and I was still getting the hang of it. One of my coworkers, a man born in the "free-love" generation, passe...d his delivery to me. I figured he was either being generous because I was new, or just didn't feel like taking the call. Either way I figured I was a newbie and should appreciate each chance I got to make tips. I left my store in my Saturn station wagon with the pizza and wings in tow. The order had come from a part of town I was unfamiliar with.. The matter would then be taken back to Springfield for further deliberation and any ensuing decisions. Jessie Harper sat quietly through all this and just swallowed quietly a lot at the heaviness that seemed to pervade the room. Somehow she just couldn’t see how things could possibly go well for her step-father or for her choirmaster. With these sobering thoughts in her mind the young girl just sat quietly in her seat and listened and watched as things unfolded.The Area Elder first asked each. . Mrs. Adams," Julie blubbered. "That's the sweetest thing I have every heard! I am so happy to be your wife, Alex. I love you so much."With that, Julie burst into an even greater deluge of tears."Oh, baby, I love you too," said Alex. "Come here."He put his arms around his sobbing wife, pulled her close, and pressed his lips warmly against hers. Julie responded to his kiss with immediate ardor. She molded herself into Alex's firm body and passionately moved her lips over his. Alex felt an. . an exploratory kiss ... and experimental kiss, between two people who knew they were attracted to the other, but weren't capable of believing the feeling was mutual.In the first seconds of the kiss, that inability to believe vanished like smoke in the wind. We communicated. Put it that way. And we communicated for a good minute and a half before Danni said, "Geez, you two, get a room." We broke apart then, and as I looked into her eyes I saw relief, and gratitude and something else I wasn't.
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