Arkain gives Anna a warm kiss back hugging her close to him. He sits there with her watching the two tigers down at the pool. He sighs deeply. "I would not want to be in Sar's paws right now. He is going to get quite an ear full. I am confident the two should be able to work things out as long as they do let things spiral out of control."  Arkain sighs again then gives Anna and kiss on the cheek.<br/><br/>Sar smiles and sits down next to Tamara. He looks over at her then turns away and looks down. He has never seen her so angry. He struggles to find the right words when Tamara lays into him. He jumps looking at her with great surprise. He drops his head shaking it sadly while listening to her. Her words cut deep but he knows what she is saying is the truth. He was stupid but how stupid? He didn't realize that till now. When she talks about their relationship and that he had better go if he doesn't respect their promises tears well up in his eyes. He nods his head. She is right. Right about everything.<br/><br/>Sar picks up his head up and takes a deep breath. He sees you have turned away from him. He sees her tears. For the moment he just looks straight ahead.  "You are right. You are right about everything. I WAS a stupid idiot. I thought what a great idea it was and how proud Arkain would be if I pulled something like this all together. It all came together like clock work. People were doing what I asked. It felt important like that time in Africa really made a difference. When it came for final approval, I was sure you Dad would approve it when he knew it was for the wedding. I wanted to make you proud of me. That's how I tried to justify it to myself. Then I started to see how much it was costing and then it hit me how much trouble I was in." Tears starts to run down his cheeks. He puts his paw on your back. "I am so sorry Tamara. I thought how great it would be it would pulling this off. How proud everyone would be after everything that has happened but I have never felt anything so empty and meaningless in my whole life. It was so stupid. I have lost so much. I lost Arkain's respect but worse of all I lost your respect and possibly even you. I never wanted to do anything that would put our relationship at risk or the promises we made to each. They still mean everything to me. Everything! I will do absolutely anything to prove to you how much you mean to me and the promises we made are."<br/><br/>The tears still run down his cheeks. He keeps his hand on her back preying with all his might that the last thing he will be feeling will not be is his hand sliding off her back as she walks away.<br/><br/>Arkain cringes hearing some of of what Tamara said to Sar. He looks at Anna shaking his head. He was right. He listens to Sar's reply. He believes what Sar said is truthful. He watches nervously to see if Tamara gets up and leaves or stays and the two try to work things out. Arkain takes Anna's paw and hopes it tightly.<br/><br/>((BTW..Excellent post.<img alt=":-D" src="./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" title="Very Happy"/>))