Chapter 150

• It was two weeks later before I even thought about sitting down to write her again. I finally did so, already resigned to the fact we had in fact had our last night together and there was no point in pretending otherwise. She was living her own life now, there at her vineyard, no doubt working side by side with her father, uncles and aunts, and a whole slew of cousins from what little I had actually gathered. Bella had a new life, her own life...and it didn't include me. I wrote, telling her pretty much the same thing. I was only a short week or so from finally graduating myself now. Already thinking about where in the world I might disappear off to for a while, collecting and gathering myself finally using the tickets that mom and dad had given to me nearly a year ago now. I sent off the letter, wishing her luck in life, signing it, "Always your friend...David."
• Several weeks went by and she never wrote me back. I'd pretty much written her off. Now graduated myself, making plans, even trying to decide if I might invite Dee to go with me, that or a new girl I had recently met, Anna. Though she reminded me too much of Bella, and I wasn't sure I was all that ready for a relationship like that again. In fact, I actually had a date with Anna that night, and had gone upstairs to my room in order to get ready for it. As I did, I happened to glance over, saw that there was actually an email waiting for me to read on my computer. I decided I'd better read it, one thing Anna wasn't shy of...was titillating me with a few naughty arousing pictures. We'd both been doing that a lot lately, so I more or less assumed she was priming my pump here just before going out together tonight. I opened the email file and sat there looking at the "From to" address in bold type waiting to be read.
• It said simply: B & R Vineyards