" I suppose I could always come over and cook and do the laundry and stuff while you're setting new sales records. What are sisters for? It's not like... I'm tied down after my bastard husband left me." Well, you'd save Charlie's life. But, maybe he'll rather have his Alpo." Oh, come on, Alpo? Your sister is as good a cook as you are. I like the idea." Well, you'd hardly know I'm gone. She looks enough like me, you'd hardly notice." Yeah, I might even grab her in the kitchen, she looks so much. “I wonder about where Jim lives and the conditions there. In some ways, we live a sheltered existence.”It was a quiet week and we went to my parents’ house while Melissa and Paul stayed in town and taught the class. Suzie-Q and Matt rode with us Karen and I enjoyed the ride though both Suzie-Q and Matt were even quieter than usual.We arrived to find Karen’s parents also visiting and Matt’s parents over for supper. While enjoyable, I knew that our mothers enjoyed kidding us about any and. As soon as she saw him there, she dropped her bags and almost fell into his warm embrace. Instinctively, Mark knew something was wrong, but had also learned to let Trisha speak when she was ready. Keeping her snug to his body, Mark slowly moved around the kitchen gathering the ingredients for dinner."Do you want to butter the bread or stir the soup?"He could feel her smiling against his chest. "I'll stir the soup."Over their favorite dinner of grilled cheese and tomato soup, Trisha tried to. ..fine, y'know. How's work?" I whisper, tracing my index fingeraround the rim of my cup."Billie....." she says, leaning over and placing her hand on mine. Itwas all it took, just that and the thoughts that had been stirringaround inside of me as I tried to dodge left and right, I'd wanted toavoid this, I'd been telling myself to just get to the next day andthere would be a whole new scenario- but it was too late now, it wasgoing to happen......I felt my hands tremble, forcing me to place my cup.