Helen told them lunch was ready in the dining room and Paul took the car keys in order to park the car in the garage after taking their small amount o...f luggage to the main bedroom. Helen had just done a lovely simple lunch of some sandwiches and salad, along with some small cakes. This, along with the perfectly made jug of pimms cocktail, was how she always welcomed them in summer. Nicole and Nigel had finished eating and were enjoying the refreshing drink by the open French windows. Paul was. Unlike Carol and me who had gone out of state to college. Bev’s overbearing parents had kept her at home. She was engaged to a rabbi’s son as soon as she had graduated from Yeshiva University, which I knew was someplace in Manhattan, in New York City. I hoped at the time that she’d be happy, but for some reason, I doubted it.That proved true when I read in the legal ads that Bev and her husband divorced after four years. I knew that Carol had married. She had become a lawyer and her. "This is probably a breach of confidentiality, but I have been very firm with the men about sleeping arrangements. I have told them that if they are not ready to sleep in the same bed with you, that they are not ready to talk about reuniting. I personally think that they would be better off in a different house than in a separate bedroom in the same house." Julia saw relief after that explanation."Remember, sleeping in the same bed does not mean they are ready for sex. It does not even mean. Sure it wasa Saturday, but it was eleven in the morning, and it wasn't a holidayweekend. Holidays were the only time the mall back in Deepwater ever gotcrowded. Then again, to compare that small shopping center back home tothe Rale Valley Mall was a mistake. This thing was enormous.Eli groaned as he exited the car and said, "Do you always have to parkso far away?" These malls are littered with stupid high school drivers," Cory pointedout. "I don't want them dinging my car."As Robert stepped out.