As much as I loved Kim, I was intoxicated by Lauren's charm and beauty. My mind was racing with thoughts from what seemed like such a distant past. It... was all coming back to me in waves.We ordered drinks and got our menus. My mind was elsewhere as I stared at the menu. When the time came to order I spoke mindlessly."I'll have the red snapper special." I muttered.I had snapper on my mind and it wasn't a fish. Dinner was for the most part relatively uneventful. It seemed as though Lauren. ..”“Now was that so hard?” Rick asks, interrupting again.“No...” Malcolm answers, not sure what the other doctor’s game is.Rick busts out laughing. “I’m just fucking with you Malcolm. You’re too serious.”Malcolm sighs audibly. “I kind of have to be.”“How so?” Rick asks, sitting forward, intently waiting.“It’s my girlfriend, Mio,” the man begins. “She’s getting tired of me working so damn much. Hell, I’m tired of working so much.”“Then don’t,” Rick says. “Hell, take some time off if you need. I got up and went downstairs and started to make breakfast my ass was hurting a bit but I had still enjoyed it, josh came down with a dressing gown on. When he saw me cooking scrambled eggs and sausages naked his dick stiffened and ended up poking out his dressing gown making me giggle. Take it off silly, its not hiding anything I told him. He let it drop to the floor and stood there naked. I turned the eggs and sausages off and went to the fridge to grab the squirty cream I had seen when I got. "Enough talk; come, let us hurry before they hog all the stew!"***The talk around the cook fire was somber that evening, as it had beenevery night of their ride. The fear that the ancient prophecy might becoming true made all wish to be with family and loved ones rather thanon the trail.All conversation died when Meg and the girl walked to the cook fire.Meg let the awkward silence stand only long enough for the two of themto receive a generous helping of steaming rabbit stew, made pungent.