With a small laugh, I walk over to Tara and lift her face to look at me.
"Seriously? You two are crying because your boyfriends have gone away for a few days? Look at you." I stand in their midst and look from one to the other as they try to stare at me through streaming red eyes. "Both of you are older than me and none of you are married to the men you are crying for. Have you seen me crying?"
"He asked me to marry him, Kelina. I can't stand it if anything happened to him." Tara sobs
"And I hoped he would ask me to marry him. What if something happened to him? I will never get a proposal from him!" Tammy adds her woes.
"Stop talking like they are going to die!" I shout in exasperation. "They are going to come back safely. There is nothing fatally dangerous about what they have gone t
