"Is it Bad?" she asked quietly. He nodded slowly then knelt down and pointed to a point in the underframe."See here?" he began. She knelt beside him... and looked where he was pointing and nodded. "This whole base frame is in bad shape." he said as he poked his pen into the wood. The pen sunk in deeper than she thought it would be able to and gasped when it just crumbled away. He saw her astonished expression."The house will fall apart?" she asked fearful she already knew the answer."I'm. "No we don't," Di said with a laugh. "We're gonna do the park tomorrow and then find someone around here to marry us." Here's your drinks," Curtis said as he sat a martini, beer, and coke on the counter. "Would you like to see the bar menu?" Can we just get a couple of steak sandwiches with fries?" Jason asked. They'd discussed the option when they saw the crowd waiting for tables."Sure can. Anything for you, Ma'am?" Curtis asked Anne."Hah! He ma'am'd me," Anne laughed. "Maybe a few extra. Stunned, I turned to Jiao and her next words hit me even harder than her slap had. ‘You are the father, Jack, and I am the mother. Meili is the surrogate mother. Meili is carrying our child, Jack. Meili is carrying OUR child,’ she said. I heard the words . . . but they made no sense. I knew, because of the forced sterilization in China, that Jiao could not have any children, could not be a mother. And how could I possibly be the father of Meili’s child? By now Jiao had her arms wrapped around. As usual while going for office he kissed both of us on our cheeks. While going he said mom get ready in the evening by the time I return, we can go for a movie and have our dinner outside. I said ok with a kiss. After that I was busy with my household work and with the baby. In the evening honey came at 6pm and we went to a movie along with the baby. By the time he came I was ready with slightly transparent yellow color sari with lot of design. As soon as he saw me, he kissed me on cheeks and.