Dee and I had often talked about Gayle and Martin and we both reckoned that she was by far the more dominant and confident of the two. Martin can be a... bit ‘woolly’ at times where as Gayle gives the impression of being able to handle anything, such as having her house almost burnt to the ground.Around 4:30 we heard Dee in the shower and shortly after she came down to say hello and we sat around with a cup of tea telling her about our days at work, what we had for lunch etc, just small talk. They heard Marda swear next to them and turned to see her glaring at something back by the road. Looking in that direction they saw the apothecary and his wife had stopped their horse just before they got to the road. Nina had bunched up her dress against her back and slowly sliding back into Jurien while leaning forward a bit in the saddle. The look on both of their faces made it easy to tell what was happening.Marda gave Kal and Perra a quick wave goodbye before striding back to the house. .. and more.When the guy walked into the adjoining booth, I very quickly moved to shut the door. He let me do it, and then after q few minutes, I heard a soft knock against the little door. I opened it a little and managed to creak out the question, “what?”. The guy softly said, “hey man, it’s cool if you wanna share movies, no worries...”. I was very uncomfortable, but also noticed that I was very hard, and from the benches, you couldn’t see each other anyway, just the screens; plus I figured. He finally went through everyone and got to Elizabeth. He started with one of the medium sized presents that she'd gotten. It was one of those, "not available in stores," items that were only sold on TV. The, "New Wave Oven," it was called. It was some kind of induction heating system that was used for quickly cooking food without needing to heat up your entire stove.We all laughed because I think everyone there knew that Liz couldn't cook to save her ass. She was beautiful and brilliant, but.
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