CHAPTER 41: Good food, good company...

Celeste

The morning after Randol and I told our fathers about our engagement, I wake up with a smile. I have to admit, I was nervous. Daddy is so important to me. I don't think my heart could have taken it if he was against it. I feel the claiming more anytime I'm not within eyeshot of Randol. It's like this pull telling me something is missing. If I had to choose between him and Daddy, I might have gone clinically insane. That feeling, in itself, is very odd and foreign to me. That never would have been a question before. Daddy would have been the easiest choice in the world. This claiming is a powerful thing, though. Without Randol close by it almost feels like I can't take a full breath. Lucky for me, I have the greatest father in the world and he just wants me to be happy. He would never ask me to make such a choice. Thinking that, my smile becomes even bigger and I leap out of bed.