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Show Coffee Drinkers Preferred Page 205 of 307 "Mom." That was me. I felt six years old again. "I'll bet he was cute." Sarah looked me right in the eyes. I melted. I was a puddle. I was mist. I was vapor. I was everywhere and nowhere. "Is she your girlfriend Nephi?" Hayden sang out. "I hope so." Sarah smiled. We did not look away from each other's eyes. I could see my mom stand up and quietly usher everyone out. She probably would have liked to grill Sarah a little bit more but she could sense which way the wind was blowing. Was the wind really blowing this way? When the last of them walked out I said, "Thank you." "Thank me? Nephi. You saved my life. You kept my kids with me. You stupid. Stupid man." She gently lowered herself over my chest, moving my IV line out of the way and gave me a hug. She smelled like mango and lavendar and everything my favorite. I wanted to hug her back but my left arm looked like something out of the Terminator movies and my right arm had needles poking into it. "You know I would hug you back, right." "Shhh." She kissed me. Great gods high on Mount Olympus send your lightening bolts across the skies in celebration. "Nephi, I am so glad you're alive." |