In Love With A Mystery Part 12

I am my Beloved's and my Beloved is mine" - Song of Solomon 6:3

After the Mystery Man left, I sat down on the sofa in the living room and just marveled at the evening events. At this point, I was still feeling perplexed by his statement and extremely amused. I am sure it was because I was still trying to convince myself that I was not interested in courting anyone.

Now, while I am pondering in the living room, my Daddy was sitting in a chair watching a Western. And, if I had written down what my Daddy was watching, I could insert some sort of funny thing about Western Dads and Guns but the truth is my Daddy is the type to teach us how to shoot our own pistol instead of meeting a guy at the door with a shot gun in hand!

Anyway, I don't remember how deeply I was thinking, but I was interrupted by my Daddy's first teasing words which were, “Why did you bring an officer in my house?”

Right then and there, my mouth dropped!

I couldn’t believe it.

I didn’t tell my Daddy anything about this guy because I didn’t know anything until that night.

And, I definitely didn’t tell him that the Mystery Man was in the military.

I have recorded that I asked my Daddy how he knew the Mystery Man was military and he passed it off as if he has radar. I still don’t know how he knew but my Daddy has eyes all over! And, his contacts go fairly far in Churches, so I am sure he had some Men in the Church somewhere gathering intelligent information on my going-ons. But, if not, all I can say is being a retired enlisted guy and trained to engage face to face with any enemy, he still must have had his radar in top notch shape.

I said, “He is a Pilot.”

Of which, I got the question, “Commissioned or Warrant?”

I said, “Warrant.”

He said something to the effect, “Well. Then he actually works for a living!”

To this day it still cracks me up because it is such good ole military man's way of teasing. ---loyalty runs thick in the ranks and in the different branches.

And then, he teased again and said, “Well, that isn’t that bad. I thought there for a minute you brought a West Pointer in my house.”

That was about all the opinion and the teasing I got from him that night, mainly because my Daddy doesn’t really give his opinions although he does enjoy teasing!

Maybe, it is because he knows also that if he waits us girls out, we will eventually talk if something is on our mind.

And, I know I had a lot on my mind so I am sure I jabbered!

And, I probably repeated a lot of my jabbering over again too!

And I am sure that the only reason why my Daddy let me jabber for as long as I did was because with all my rambling he got a little bit more information about this guy. Now that I think about it, I am sure he was pocketing the information and probably coming to his own conclusions as to what this guy did for a living.

Remember, I had a couple of questions? Well, I asked them.

Eventually, I went off to bed to write in my journal.

And, I am sure my Daddy finished his western.

The next entry I have in my journal is how unknown to me, but sometime afterwards, I wrote that one of my Parents told me that they knew right then and there that I was going to marry this guy!

Obviously, it didn’t matter to them that I had crashed and burned and gotten dumped even before the “First” date got off the ground. But, when you have praying parents who have prayed for your husband all your life, getting dumped is just a small technicality!

Beloved has always found this part funny.

He also said, “How many episodes are you going to do because we courted secretly for awhile before we told anyone except for your Parents?” I said, “Up to our Wedding or at least until you go buy a new memory card for my camera!”

On a side note: My Dad, however, doesn’t remember saying any of this and during a skype chat he said something to the effect that if I mention him, he is probably going to demand royalties.