You answered me verbally which is why you are seeing those odd looks. I am still sharing my thoughts with you. Rusty is here too. Can you see our thou...ghts?"Julia glanced between the two, and then nodded with a frown. She looked at the others, seeing their concern. "Don't worry, we were just sharing thoughts for a moment, and I didn't realize it."Now the others had an amazed look on their faces. Stan recovered first saying, "What?"Julia said, "Sarah just apologized for looking at my memories. At least, after today, he'd know why.After everyone had gone, we sat down in the middle of the football field."You've been avoiding me," he said simply."Yes." I thought we had something," he said. "I thought I could count on you." You should be able to," I told him. "This isn't about you." Then I said it. "This is about my little brother, Danny." I didn't know you had a little brother," he said."I don't anymore."He looked at me, his eyes wide with shock. "Oh, God, Mish, no." He was three years. Oh, I finished out my last year, got my degree. I'd come this far, no sense quitting then. But my real focus was on singing; I loved it. Miriam had put up with Lucia and the run-up, but she got more and more waspish about the time I was spending on voice studies. She about had a conniption when I was cast as the dad in La Traviata, my last year's commencement production (opposite the same soprano, who was already showing little signs of vocal deterioration by then), but I got the biggest. Things were looking very up for Maeson, and by default Kimber.He was going to be able to send her to private school no matter what Mom and Dad had said, and the apartment? Yeah, more like a floor, or a house of their own (with pool), and if everything went as well as he thought they might, Mom and Dad would be retiring in a little over a year.Being a little drunk, and horny, he pulled out his phone right after stepping inside of his suite and closing the door with his foot.“Everything went.