"I'm coming over there. We need to talk," she sounded much stronger now."Okay, can you give me an hour. I didn't sleep much last night and I'm a mess...." Sure sweety," she answered. "I'll be there in an hour." Bye Mom. See you then," I hung up the phone and turned to embrace Sally."Dave, you really were going to kill yourself." It was a statement not a question."Yes I was. Do you want to meet my mom?" I asked."I don't have much choice now. My car is still at the bluff and you wouldn't be able to. It was in fact as long ago as three years previously when his wife had died.Several of the people that knew him greeted him as he made his way to an empty table. Stopping him occasionally, everyone expressed their pleasure at his being there. The lights were fully on while the band prepared to resume playing after their brief break.Ed stood talking to his immediate boss, Bill Brokaw, who was seated at the table adjacent to Ed's. "If you are here alone, Ed you are welcome to sit with us. I'm. They had started with steamed soft-shell clams, followed by giant baked stuffed lobsters. These, Barbara said, represented the modification. Rather than being stuffed with bread crumbs, these were stuffed with Crab Imperial made from Chesapeake Bay crabs. Remarkably, she served it with corn on the cob — the sweetest corn he could remember ever eating. Blushing, Barb had admitted the corn was frozen, but was actually fresher than fresh because the whole process from picking to freezing took less. His eyes suddenly met Kait’s over Ada’s shoulder. Kaitlyn turned immediately. She excused herself and left the bar. She didn’t know what she was thinking, the image of Chase dancing and kissing another girl kept flashing in her mind. She didn’t want to think, she didn’t want to show that she care, and she definitely didn’t want to confront Chase just then. She couldn’t. Chase wanted to go after Kait, he didn’t care what Ada was muttering when he pulled away, but he was drunk and dodder. .