********CharlieTheir sex life was healthy. Not too fast, and not too slow. The kind of thing you’d see a happy couple do in a movie. Cute and playfu...l, smooth and celebratory. Nothing like his exes.Charlie often wondered how he got so lucky to have a girl like her. Good in bed, smart and reasonable, yes. But also so passionately in love with every piece of him. He found himself too shy since leaving high school. He thought too hard and too long about everything, anxiously psyching himself in and. Amari had the broccoli soup and half a chicken Panini. Edrick had ordered a ham and Swiss sandwich. All of his time living abroad with the army and the defense contractor had yet to broaden his palette.“You’re finished for the day, right,” the well-toned forty year old inquired.“Yes I am, Unc.”“You wanna come chill at my place and watch a movie on Netflix.”“I don’t wanna monopolize your day,” Amari replied.“Naw, it’s all good. You know I always devoted an entire day to you and your sisters on. I recognized her blue Ford as she came closer. She saw me and circled around in the dark lot next to the picnic area. She left the motor running, but clicked off the headlights.We stared at each other across the short distance. She had turned on the dome light so I could see her. She lifted her hand motioning for me to come to the car. I shook my head pointing to a space before me. She shook her head negatively and a look of irritation crossed her face. She rolled down the car window.“Mike come. We represent the families upon whose landholdings you constructed your new palace. We are humbled, overjoyed, that you have seen fit to use the lands we had previously occupied for their highest purpose.” They had been compensated for the lands, but it was still hard for them. “As a minor, unworthy, token of our appreciation, we present you with this.” He held out a small, intricate, carving of colored glass. “As you may know, our region is renowned for its glass work. This…is a carving of.