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the blue. Two months without a word and you call me as if we talked yesterday at the grocery store to ask me to travel a couple of hundred miles to meet people I don’t even know to go to a fancy Marine Ball with you. Is that right?”
    “Uh, well yes …”
    “Of course I’ll go with you I wouldn’t miss it for anything. You tell me where and when and I’ll be there.”
    My heart started beating again and I was finally able to breath.
    “Give me her number and I’ll call to get the details,” Ashley said.
    “That’s okay, I can tell you everything you’ll need to know.”
    She laughed. “Nathan, I trust you with my life but his is way too important. What is her number, I’ll call tomorrow.”
    Sighing I gave her the number. Once that was out of the way we settled in to talking, updating each other on what was going on in our lives. It was so easy and comforting. My cheeks began to hurt I was smiling so much.
    Before I knew it an hour had passed and I could hear her stifling a yawn on the other end.
    “I’d better let you go,” I said.
    “Oh,” she said, sounding a little disappointed.
    “I’ll call you next week to make sure everything is worked out.”
    “Okay. Um I’m really glad you called and I’m really looking forward seeing you again. Have you decided what you’re going to do? Long term that is?”
    “No, not really. How about you?”
    She paused for a moment then started telling me about maybe wanting to explore Physical Therapy. Before I knew it another hour had passed as we discussed our futures and our inability to make a decision.
    Finally, after two and half hours that seemed like ten minutes we said our goodbyes.
    I leaned back in my chair and folded my hands behind my head. I looked at the picture off Ashley in her prom dress, framed, sitting on my desk. “She said yes,” I said with a huge smile on my face.

Chapter Ten
    Ashley
    Charlotte Travers turned out to be exactly like I imagined her. Barely over five feet and a ball of pure energy. Long brown hair and a smile that could light the world. She hugged me when she answered the door, hurrying me out of the drizzle into their small house.
    “It’s so nice to finally meet you,” Charlotte said giving me another hug. “I was so worried I wasn’t going to know anyone there. Thank you so much for coming. I was thinking of backing out but it would have crushed John, it’s a pretty big deal I guess. Taking your wife to a Marine Ball. All of this is so new to me. The commissary, working my way through the Naval Hospital bureaucracy, John being gone for days on end, now they expect us to go to a fancy Ball.”
    She’s nervous I realized. It made me feel more relaxed. I wasn’t the only one going through this. I’d been on edge since Nathan called. Walking on cloud nine, but on the edge of cloud nine, ready to fall off at any moment.
    “Thank you so much for helping me,” I said. I really meant it. “I couldn’t have done this without you.”
    She stepped back and looked at me, nodding her head. “I’ve been trying to set Nate up with a couple of friends of mine, they’ve been bugging me all month. But he’s always declined, now I see why.”
    I smiled and tried hard not to blush. The thought of Nathan turning down opportunities to date other women because of me sent warm waves of pure pleasure through me.
    “Come on, let me show you to your room. You can hang your dress and we can get started. This is going to be so fun. Like playing dress up and we get to be the princesses. John and Nate will be home around six. They plan on getting ready at Nate’s barracks room. They’ll be in a bit of a rush, something came up at work but he promised me they would be here in time.”
    We spent the afternoon getting ready, I had bought a new dress, blue to match Nathan’s scarf that I was determined to wear tonight as a shawl. The combo matched perfectly. Spaghetti straps and a tighter, more form fitting shape. I thought it looked