" Gabrielle wasdetermined to get the last insult in as she lead their dance away fromLauren and Colin.Colin looked up into her eyes. "You didn't mean ...that did you? You werejust saying that because we have you tagged." No, no I wasn't. I really meant it Colin," Lauren replied honestly."Even the bit about me being your boyfriend?" He asked, disbelieving herfirst answer. Lauren had to pause briefly before she replied. There wereconsequences to this answer, ones that she didn't really want to. The responsibility of owning and having to care for her new best friend she found to be not only challenging, but also satisfying. Actually, she was also very pleased that through owning and riding her horse, she made a couple of very close girlfriends, something she had never been able to do in her previous fifteen odd years of constant moving and deprivation.One of the first things that Stephen did when they had settled back into his, now their, home was to take Katherine to an upmarket. On one warm summer day, I was talking with some neighborhood friends. Rich Rogers, Toni Panoseo and one Rob Nemseck to be exact. Toni began telling us, that a new family, was moving into the old Gabor house, just down the street. This was indeed big news, and it got even better as he spoke. He started telling us, that he had seen them earlier that day, and that the family consisted of, the mother, a son, and of all things, a monkey!! He said the boy was young, maybe five years old, was his. The Court was a surprise. I think both of us were expecting the formal court shown in films, with the Judge sitting on his high bench. Not so. The furniture consisted of two heavy oak tables set in a 'T' shape. The large leather upholstered chair was obviously for the Judge and the chairs set either side of the table which formed the stroke of the 'T' could only be for us minions. Mr. Cox took his seat and motioned Mavis to sit beside him, he pointed to chairs set around the wall for me to sit..