i believe in my loving heart that garth will understand and forgive me rather than if i ask his verbal permission to entertain as the new harvest empress and he might say no so i keep my secret and my secretive plot inside my active brain as garth surfaces from his kiss and smiles at me while we slowly move away from the face painting exhibition standing like three soldiers in the middle of the hallway with nothing to do which is visually almost empty since every parent wants to see their kid as harvest royal some day .