The wedding was a week away and Sandra tried to remain calm, which got harder as each day passed. It was difficult for her to fathom that the long wait was almost over and in seven days Captain Daniel Walker would be her husband.

The girls had reluctantly returned to New York two weeks earlier after they had made sure that Evelyn and the new baby were all right. They promised that they would be back in plenty of time for the wedding and for her and Danny not to get married without them there.

It was Saturday night and she had gone outside to sit on the front porch swing and wait for Danny. He had called earlier to ask her if she would have dinner with him. She didn't need to tell him that she'd had a hard time since the girls had been transferred back to New York because he seemed to sense it. She had also begun to spend more time with Evelyn and because she and Danny were going to be married, didn't feel the need to get too close to her roommates. She had resigned her commission and the day before her wedding would be her last at the Pearl Harbor Naval Hospital.

They hadn't applied for base housing because Rafe had told Danny he was going to put their names in with the housing department so that he and Sandra would get the house. But until that happened, they needed a place to live. Red had already moved out of the barracks and into the Bachelor Officers Quarters and Danny had told her that he thought he could get them temporary housing until the decision about the McCawley's house was made.

She saw Danny's car come up the road and stop in front of the house. She watched him as he got out and walked up to the porch. "Hi." He smiled at her.

"Hi yourself."

He stepped up on the porch and as he sat down next to her, took her hand. "Gettin' nervous?" He asked.

She felt her face flush. "Are you?"

"Sandra, I'm a combat pilot." He told her as though that would answer her question.

She smiled at him. "Then why is your hand shaking?"

Danny grinned. "I was hopin' that wouldn't give me away." And he leaned over and kissed her.

"So where are we going?" She asked him.

"If it's all right with you I thought we'd go over to Rafe and Evelyn's. He's plannin' on takin' them back to Tennessee after the weddin' and with everyone else comin' back in the next few days, we won't have a whole lot of time."

"Danny you kept asking him if he was sure if he wanted to go home, are you sure you want to stay here?" Sandra tightened her hold on his hand. "If you're having second thoughts about staying here, we can go back to Tennessee if you want to."

Danny shook his head. "I want to stay in the Air Corps and I want to keep flyin'. There ain't anythin' in Tennessee for me anymore except for Rafe and his folks and I know they would be the first ones to tell me to stay if it's what I really want. We're goin' to have a life together honey and I can't think of a nicer place to start it."

She nodded. "This is the place you first kissed me."

He grinned. "Well, not here. It was actually on the beach after I had to tell Evelyn about Rafe."

"Honestly Danny." She smiled back at him. "You did ask Ev and Rafe if it was all right didn't you?"

"Of course I did. It was actually Rafe's idea because he wants to show me around the house so I can see where everythin' is."

"Are we really going to get it?" Sandra frowned.

"I don't see why not. Rafe talked to the housin' department a few days ago and they told him since he had put our names in so early it should just be a matter of transferrin' responsibility of the house from him to me."

"You didn't tell me that."

"I'm sorry honey. Since it wasn't a sure thing, I didn't want to get your hopes up in case somethin' happened."

She felt her face flush and she looked at her fiance. "It's finally going to happen isn't it?"

He grinned. "Yea."

"Not just that Danny." Sandra admonished him and felt her face grow warmer. "After all of this time of waiting and worrying about what could happen, we got though it and here we are. In seven days, we're going to get married."

"Then I'll go back to my original question, gettin' nervous?" His grin got wider.

"A little." She admitted. "Are you?"

He nodded before he admitted. "Bein' married to you don't make me nervous, it's the whole weddin' business that makes me nervous."

"Evelyn told me that was the hardest part for her. But once she saw Rafe standing at the altar, all of her nerves were gone because she knew that he was really hers."

He stood up, with her hand still in his and he smiled. "I know what she means."

Sandra stood up and they stepped off the porch and walked down to the car.

It wasn't long before he pulled the car into the driveway and shut down the motor. Sandra saw Evelyn and Rafe on the porch and they waved at her and Danny. She waved back as Danny came around to help her out of the car and took her hand as they met their friends at the bottom of the stairs.

"It's too quiet around here Rafe, where are those kids of yours?" Danny asked with a smile.

"Sleeping, finally." Evelyn gave them a weary smile. "They're excited about getting to dress up for the wedding, though I'm not sure they really understand what it's all about."

"How's the baby?" Sandra asked Evelyn.

"The baby is fine and I just put him down for the night." Evelyn told her. "Dinner is ready so why don't you two come in and make yourselves comfortable."

"After all, this will be your house at the end of June." Rafe told them with a grin.

"You son of a gun. That's why you wanted us to come over, so you could give us the news." Danny smiled and shook the hand that his best friend had put out to him.

"This wasn't something that we wanted to tell you in a telephone call." Evelyn smiled.

Sandra hugged her. "Thank you so much Ev. This is one less thing that we'll have to worry about."

"We'll still need temporary housin' though. Ya'll ain't leavin' until a week after Sandra and I get back from our honeymoon." Danny reasoned.

"You could always stay at the barracks." Rafe laughed.

"Like hell I will." He laughed in return.

"All right you two, dinner will be ice cold if you keep this up." Evelyn tried not to laugh.

"Let's go inside then." Rafe grinned as Danny took Sandra's hand and walked into the house with Rafe and Evelyn right behind them.