Chapter 2

Alice slowly walked toward the grave, in her hands she carried fresh cut flowers, flowers that she had picked earlier that day from the very garden that her late husband had started so long ago and which she now maintained. She removed the dead flowers from the vase and placed the fresh ones into it.

"Good morning Tom, I have some more flowers for you. So much has happen since you left me alone. I told you the last time that I was here that I lost Sara. Tom I miss her almost as much as I miss you. Tom guess what? I know you always hated that I would ask you to guess something without a clue as to what I was talking about. Well just after Sara died, and I was feeling alone again, I got a new neighbor. It was Anna, yes our Anna. I could not believe that she of all people moved into the park, we had no contact since she and James got married and moved away. That was what, 1966? We did not think that James was good enough for her, but Tom we were wrong. James did well and took care of Anna and her kids. Roberto looks just like you did at forty-five Tom. And Marie looks like our Brenda but with dark hair. They are fine kids and each has kids. Tom can you believe that Anna has six grand-kids?"

Alice laid a blanket on the ground beside the grave site. Slowly she sit down.

"Tom, at times I feel so old yet other times I feel like that young girl that you married when you got out of service back in fifty-five. Remember that first week Tom? Outside of going out to eat I do not think we left the room. I am sure that is when we made Brenda. Tom unlike other husbands back then, you made sure that I had some time away from the baby. Oh Anna was just what we needed. Remember how she looked then? I remember that first time we met her, she just wanted to earn a little money for herself. Tom do you think that she dreamed that she would become part of our lives? She was so sweet and innocent then. Did she dream that we would take that innocent? Was she scared the first time you made a play for her? I know that she had a school girl crush on you, I saw it before you knew. Men just do not know some things when it is stirring it in the face. Remember the next time she sit for us? She was so nervous and scared, I guess she thought that I would scratch her eyes out. I still see the look on her face when you kissed her on the cheek. Her eyes grew big and was showing the alarm she felt. Little did she know hat it was part of our plan to get her into our bed. As shocked as she was by your actions I threw her for a loop when I kissed her cheek."