‘Let’s just finish our wine, and go.’ ‘And if we find ourselves in more intimate situations with people back then?’ Doug asked. ‘Remember... we’re going to wake up together back here,’ Kelly said. ‘Just the two of us. Whatever happens in the past stays there.’ ‘So we’re only sleeping with others for the good of the future,’ Doug said. ‘Got it, and I like it.’ Kelly looked at Doug like she wanted to smack him, but she gulped down her wine and held out her hand. ‘On to the sixties, then,’ she said.. I looked at the wide eyed girl and boy and gestured, “go back to your party.”I watched them leave before I slipped away through the bushes. It was later that night when I was working that the two royal guards found me. I glanced at them while working and one cleared his throat, “his majesty wishes to speak to you.”The other did not speak but his eyes flickered over me and around the office. I straightened, “I have work.”The guard smiled, “I am sure they will understand.”I smiled, “perhaps but. He felt such a fool, so humiliated at not being able to perform in front of Jackie and her friends. Everyone at the party would probably know by now, it was crushing. He carried the two bottles of wine into the kitchen and noted with some relief that the crowd was thinning as people drifted homewards. He stole a quick peek through the French Doors to the pool, the four friends were in the water and not huddled together with others relaying the story of what had transpired. His confidence. Mathew was in charge of the crop field and planting the crops. He reduced the area under field pea cultivation, increased the area for corn, sunflowers, wheat and oats, and added barley.With the exception of the horses, Joshua and Mary took care of all the animals, including the bees in the apple orchard, and started raising pigs and rabbits captured in the wild. They also established a bee hive across the road from Frank and Rebecca’s house to pollinate and gather nectar from the fruit trees.
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