#scarsdale

"If you didn't get married why does it look like you did??"

That from Miriam.

"No, we oathed..." Her voice sounds strained.

"Oathed??"

The phone rings again; Ratchet's number.

"Ratchet's calling..."

"....Uncle Ratchet?"

"Zara, Hirim wants to know why you didn't invite him."

(Ratchet)

"We didn't invite anybody, it was just us..."

"AH HA! So then who took the picture??"

"Vashti, afterwards."

"I didn't want to have everybody pushing and fussing over everything, or a make a tsuris...."

Mirim Txts: TEll rat shit to (@&)!(&@!)(*& too

"Oh, Miriam is upset..."

BEEP. "Miriam?"

"YEAH!"

"We thought maybe we could do a dinner after, with everyone, if everybody wanted, mayhaps..."

"YA THINK???"

BEEP.

"What's wrong with this phone??"

TXT (Ratchet) Zara, Hirim is upset.....

"Dinner, she says!"

"Jacob, go get dressed up!"

"AND YOU!!" Miriam accuses.

("Oh, 'tis")

And he does... and repeats what he said earlier, hopefully to the Uncles and Hannah and Aaron

"SCHMUCK!!!"

"....so confused by all this......." Hannah

"Where the hell are you so I can FIND you...!"

"..... too young to get married......"

"AND CHOKE ON IT!"

".... thought I called Zara's phone, Earl, is that you?" (Hannah)

("Hi Mama, love you.")

"Hannah, we exchanged the oath of truehearts. We didn't get married by law of man for certain. I know some of you oathed when you were our age and while we might seem young, we've been true to each other for a while now"

"It is. She's with me. It just got a bit loud and started to distress her" Earl says

"DISTRESS?!?!?"

"Oh, good, Earl, thank you although I wish you'd said something...."

"@)#_)(@(!&@(*!^&^$"

"Zara loves her secrets, and she loves me, and I love her. So of course we blended it. For the better I think. It really was wonderful. Something to tell you all about in detail sometime"

"DETAILS!!!"

"BLENDED, HE SAYS!"

"We thought a dinner, later?"

"....to celebrate?"

"Oh, that sounds wonderful, Earl dear."