“Hello, Maria.”Surprised, she looked up and exclaimed, “Ed! It’s nice to see you.”Smiling, he pointed at the cactus and asked, “Making som...e Prickly Pear Jelly?”“Of course, I do it every year.”“Would you teach Marguerite how to make it?”Maria laughed as she asked, “Where do you think I’m cooking up this batch?”“Don’t I feel foolish.”“Don’t feel that way. A lot of the women are getting together to make the jelly and you guys have the biggest kitchen around. We used to make it at Maria’s. .....I open my eyes trying to remember what happend to me as I try lift up I feel pain in my legs arms every wear mainly my breast,vagina and face I look at the clock 1:48pm I'm sure I woke up at 8:30am this can not be right as I get up there is a pool of blood and some kined of white stuff on my bed and now it all comes back to me my dad raped me after I woke up he come in my room and raped me tears r now rolling down my face,my bedroom door slowly starts to open so I curl up into a tight ball. " I laughed nervously. "I mean, you're the one who gave me your phone number, remember?" And it was my turn to raise my eyebrows."Yeah." She nodded, biting her straw a little. "But that wasn't my fault." Oh yeah?" I stabbed my ice cream with my straw, which had a tiny spoon molded into the bottom. "Whose fault was it then?" Yours!" she said like it was obvious and laughed at my look of innocence. "You didn't even tell me your name; you just took my phone number and smiled." Well, maybe I didn't. I never paid to much attention to what the Navy did," Vonda admitted."For shame! Is that any way for the Empress to act?" Richard said, with pretended outrage."Well, I wasn't Empress, then. So now I want to learn!" she responded with a light punch to his arm."Assault and battery of your Emperor can get you tossed into the dungeon, you know," Richard said ominously."Which would make for very cold nights in your bed," Vonda responded with the same tone.They both broke up into laughter. Richard.