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Chapter 45. "Just a Glance."

Looks are the heavy artillery of flirting: with a look you can express everything, and at the same time, everything can be denied, because you can't catch a glance.

Frédéric Stendhal (Marie-Henri Bayle)

On behalf of Joanna:

Oswald came up to us, my mother had gone into the kitchen, and he shook his son's hand and embraced him.

- I'm glad you came. I wish you'd spent more time there, but that's all right.

- We'll get there in time," Ed said and went into the kitchen.

Oswald came up to me and pulled me around the waist. - Welcome back, beautiful. - He whispered in my ear and kissed my neck quickly, but softly... I couldn't pull him away, because not only was he one head taller than me, but his grip was iron.

- That must have been your doing. - I finally stepped away from him, and he grinned.

- Aren't you glad to be home again, little birdie?

- Don't call me that," I poked him in the chest and went into the kitchen.

- Hi there, honey. - Jacqueline came up to me and gave me a big hug," she laughed, "I'm so sorry about what happened, but Edie gave his word that he would take you somewhere much more beautiful...

- Thank you, Aunt Jacqueline. I brought you a present, but I didn't know you'd be here, so I'll give it to you next time we meet.

- Thank you, sweetheart.

Afterwards my father came up to me and we hugged.

- I'm glad you came. - Tucking my strand behind my ear, he began," Everything okay?

- More than okay. - I pulled on a smile, and then we sat down at the table.

My mother had made blueberry pie, and it was delicious, even though I had once said that I wouldn't eat it anymore, I guess I was wrong. How can you refuse to eat?

The evening passed normally, without any incident... We went home with Edmund.

- I want ice cream," I whined while sitting in the car at the gas station.

- Don't tell me you want to go to Target? - Ed started laughing.

- Please, chocolate-covered pistachio... Mmm," I licked, and Ed pulled me to him and kissed my lips, and I didn't answer to annoy him.

- How long am I going to be tortured? - He asked.

- Ice cream first, and then a well-deserved kiss. - Said I to which he exhaled deeply and started the car engine and we drove to the store.

We drove to Target, out into the night. Ed got a huge cart and we ran off to have fun, if you can call it that... I took everything my heart desired...

Instead of one bucket of ice cream we took eight, Ed also bought lots of chocolate bars, breakfast cereal in different flavors, how I love them with milk, do you like them too?  Lots of marmalade, Chupa Chups, chips, soda and juice, so we bought all the unhealthiest but most delicious things.

- Are you happy? - He asked me when I got behind the wheel.

- Very, very, very happy. Thank you. - I clapped my hands.

- Well, actually, someone promised me something. - He smiled wryly and reached out for a kiss, and even though I was embarrassed by Ed, I didn't know how to kiss, but I pretended to, which he laughed at. He bit my bottom lip and then said," I have something. and he took out a pocket of his jacket and gave it to me.