Why wouldn’t I talk back to her? We started chatting.“Hey! Long-time no see!…lol.”She replied with a lol emoji. I really had no idea what to t...lk about, so I asked her whatever came to my head.“I noticed you were panting when you answered the doorbell. Are you okay?”She replied, “Yeah no I’m fine. I was just busy working out.”We spoke a lot about general stuff. I was just happy to talk to her. All the while, I had a raging boner. I wondered if she knew her cleavage was visible and how I was. “Mommy! What are you doing here? Are you going sledding, too?”Lauren looked over at Heather. “Robby and I are taking them over to Griffin Park to go sledding,” she explained.Holly’s brother came down next, with his usual morning grumpiness starting to wear off, though he looked suspiciously at the adults. “What’s up?”“We need to talk,” answered their mother. She took Holly by the hand and sat down on the couch, with Holly next to her. Lauren had been hoping that Jimmy would sit on her other. A few days later I rode down to see mom in Sarasota, and she was quite surprised to see me."Where is your truck, John?" It's back at the house mom, I took the bike." Bike? what bike?" Take a look out the window."She did and went out to really look at it."Wow, that is a nice bike, looks real good, damn that chrome really sparkles." Yeah does it ever, it is called 'purple polish' I got from the dealer."I was wearing Herman survivor workboots and jeans as well as a fairly heavy bikers shirt as the. ”Sue could see how confused I was looking.“What do you mean, Sue honey? We have balance in our lives, don’t we?” I asked hopefully.Sue looked at me like she was educating a particularly slow child.“Yes, honey. We have balance at the moment. But we won’t have balance when Grace gives you a child, and when you raise that child and fall more and more in love with her.”I began to see just the faintest of outlines of what Sue might be suggesting. But I couldn’t stand the tension anymore. I wanted,.