As Freddie came walking in the room, Laura and Rob looked at each other in a panic, Rob picked up the picture and he looked around and he saw an entrance way into a hallway and Rob quickly ran over there with the picture. Freddie saw Laura and he smiled and waved than walked over and hugged her and said, "You'll never know who you'll see , even in another part of the world!" She shook her head then said, "That's true." She then gave the classic Laura nervous laugh then Freddie asked, "What are you doing here? Where's Mister Petrie?"

Just than Rob comes along, acting cool and calm and he said, "Hi Freddie!" The two old friends and neighbors shake hands then Freddie asked, "What are you two doing here?"

Laura said, "Vacation." Rob picked up on her cue than said, "Yep, a vacation, you know to get away from the hustle and bustle of New York." Freddie then said, "You mean a second honeymoon, don't you?" They all laugh then Freddie asked, "What are you guys doing here? In this house?" Laura looked at Rob then she said, "Oh, we were down on the beach and just saw this estate sale going on and came up here to check it out."

Freddie shook his head and said, "Same thing." The three friends turn to look around the room and look at the tree in the room then a man in his 40's , in a nice, crisp brown suit comes up to Rob and he said, "Sir, the painting that you bought? You left it in the hallway..." Freddie turned to Rob and he asked, "You bought a painting?" Rob looked at Laura and said, "Uh, yeah." "Well, I would like to see it! what's it like?" Rob then said, "Well, ummmmmmm..." The man in the light brown suit that came up to them said, "I'm sorry but we have to get the painting out of there, my assistant will bring it over."

Laura's heart starts beating loud and hard in her body and she looked at Rob then he said, "Well, it's, it's...well, Freddie, you're a grown up so..." Just then the assistant comes over with the painting wrapped in plain brown paper and an old time hay string is tied around it and Rob saw it and his head popped up and he said, "It's wrapped up!"

Laura starts breathing again after having her heart stopped and Freddie said, "Oh, what a shame!" Rob and Laura looked at each other and almost started giggling from relief then the assistant said, "I hope you don't mind us wrapping it up sir..." Rob said, "Oh no!" "Well, I'm sure with a beautiful piece like that you wouldn't want it hurt or destroyed in any way so..."

Laura than said, "Well, we thank you! ..." She took his hand to shake then said, "You don't know how much we thank you!" The man looked at them both rather oddly then nodded his head then turned and left then Freddie asked, "Well, I would have loved to seen the painting, what is the subject?" Rob looked at his wife then he said, "It 's of a beautiful woman, incredibly remarkable." Laura shyly smiled then Freddie said, "You better be careful with your wife around." Laura looked at Freddie then said, "Oh, I'm not worried, it's just a painting."

Rob then picked up the painting then he said, "Well, we better be going, we'll talk to you later Freddie." He looked at them and he waved to them and said, "Goodbye, see you back in New Rochelle."

They leave and as they put the painting in back of the car, Laura looked at the Brazilian sunset. The full, round yellow sun dips into an orange skyline with high clouds hanging around. Rob walked around the car to his bride and he put his arms around her and they watched the sun dip behind the majestic mountains. Laura looked up at Rob and they kissed.

Sand n' Sable

A/N-This isn't an exciting chapter, it's more of a filler but let's see what happens next!