Val had kept Donna's coat, and hadn't given Donna time to put on her jeans, physically throwing Donna out the door. Val had at least thrown her purse ...and wedding dress out after her. Purse and dress were both sitting next to Donna now, in the front seat, but they were of little comfort to her now as she faced yet another crisis.Her car was running out of gas.If things had gone as planned earlier and Tom had driven her to the dress shop in his car she would be okay now, because she had had just. Maria-why your bathroom dad? I mean she could have used the one in my room.Peter-hmmmmmm, I am stuck now, he thought, no dear I asked her to use my bathroom, I thought you will be using as soon you will be back from your walk, I smiledMaria-ahh ok, how sweet of you dad, you are the best dad in this world.She came to give me a hug before she moved to her room.I rushed to the kitchen to get things ready for breakfast, after 30 minutes both the girls were down in the kitchen.Maria-dad I am waiting. I tell him I only want to be friends but then all of sudden walking arm in arm as we did as friends means more and I fear I may be sending a message I am interested in him after all. I don’t allow the arm in arm walking anymore.” “See!” “Well, you certainly changed your approach when you came to me.” “I was tired of being a coward. I was ready for a relationship. I was horny. I did not have the desire to play games. Timing is certainly important isn’t it?” “It sure is.” “I saw you, talked to. ”Patrick grinned and kissed me. I had to pull away after a minute.“Stop trying to distract me! We have to go.”We couldn’t be late for the wedding. Number one, I didn’t want to be late, and number two, I didn’t want to be a spectacle. People were already going to be watching for us. It had been a year, but we were still interesting specimens.It appeared Chloe could love again. She met Greg shortly after our whole terrible fall-out. A few months later she started emailing me back. She invited me.