"You didn't have one. You need one. No one has this one. So ... it's yours."The gathered crowd -- most of the current 24 residents of Everest Island ...-- laughed at the silliness of simply choosing a birth date. Enola pointed to the 19 small, ornate seashells decorating the treat. "And these?" One for every year you have been alive," Gregor added. He urged the others into song and, once finished, Helen removed the shells and cut the pie -- and three more just like it -- so that everyone could. He loved English movies making sure he never missed any. One passion we both shared was movies. We used to see most of the 9 pm movies in HBO and Star Movies. Now that was not when this happened. I never really had entertained this sort of thoughts in my mind about him. I was at my in-laws house most of the weekends. Since we did not have any classes on Saturday’s I used to pack my bags on Friday and be at my husbands house which was just few hours drive from my college where I used to stay in. “Something smells darned good in here, is dinner ready yet?” Sloan asked.“Sure is, come on in.”After dinner Annie went to take a shower and Sloan brought down his bag and was getting ready to go when the phone rang so he answered it.“Hello.”Click.He hung up the phone.“I was going to tell you this earlier but forgot with everything else going on.”“Tell us what?” Spencer asked.“Well the phone rang off the hook today and every time I answered it, they hung up just like yesterday. Think maybe they. Derwen owned the largest shipping company in Convey and she loved the speed of the lateen rigging. The triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, which allowed a vessel to attack the wind better than the square-rigged cogs.The need for fast freight ships that ran circles around fat merchants was a vicious cycle. Ever since we had floated our second ship, a fair number of experienced shipbuilders from Convey had sworn loyalty to our clan. They had a number of reasons to.