We both got up and walked to the front door, with Alicia standing a few meters behind me as I opened the door to Leif, who stood quite tall, with dark... blonde hair and a slight tan after a few weeks of being in the Caribbean.“Hey Raj!” Leif said as we shook hands and patted eachothers shoulders.“Come on in!” I said to Leif as he stepped inside. “Wow, nice place.” Leif said looking around my home's entrance, leaving the dark of the night. Right before he could say anything else, his eyes quickly. . but she was beginning to think she might be!She'd never experienced the kind of attention from boys that she was now garnering from the upperclassmen at her new school. There were a couple boys in particular that always seemed to be by the front door when she came into the building, and coincidentally were always walking the same way as she was to get to class.She'd managed to work into conversation several times that she had a boyfriend, and they had acted disappointed to hear that at first.. Oh.The next three hours or so at the reception were a bit of blur. I ended up befriending many of the groom's friends and immediately family and we were slamming rum & cokes like there was no tomorrow. I also have vague memories of meeting another one of Christy's cousins, someone who was seated at Jade's table during dinner service, who invited me outside with his wife to smoke some pot. I had completely lost track of Christy by this point, and while I wasn't completely shitfaced I was boozed. "The boy peered into the sack. Upon seeing the new leather gloves, the boy's face lit up with a smile."Are you giving these to me?" the boy asked, a bit skeptical. "Do I get to keep them?" Sure!" the old man said with a kind smile, "They won't fit me... , too small."The young boy pulled on his new gloves. The old man watched the boy bring the new gloves up to his nose. The boy inhaled a long breath, savoring the smell of the new leather. He smiled.The old man happily returned the boy's smile of.