‘Okay, maybe I am just a little bit, but you do look good. Really, really good.’ She smoothed her palms up the black fabric covering his chest and...took his collar in her hands, pulling him close for a kiss as she leaned back against the door of his truck. Mike relaxed a little bit more, leaning into her as she wrapped her arms up around his shoulders. ‘Now that’s the kind of hello I like.’ ‘Speaking of hellos can I ask you something?’ ‘Mmhm,’ he said, nuzzling her neck. ‘I was just wondering if. "Katherine looked up at him with a smile. "Oh, and thank you for looking after me on Friday."Joseph looked up from his newspaper. "I take it was you that bought her all that alcohol?"Matthew tensed up, butterflies doing somersaults in his stomach. "Umm, well, we umm ... we had those tokens to use up."Joseph laughed as he turned back to the newspaper. "Oh well, only happens once a year." And thank you for walking me home," Katherine said and passed Matthew his jacket back. "Did I stagger. It was all sad to think about. Just like it was sad to think that when I got back home, things wouldn't be the same. Not with my grandma. Not even with Jason and Nathan, unless I could figure out a way to at least get them to make up and go back to the way things were.But things changed. They always changed. It was just a matter of whether or not I was there to be a part of it. It was strange to think that if I'd been in Arizona one summer earlier, Luke and Aaron would have been the best of. She arrived home around the same time, called for Matt and once she thought he wasn’t home headed upstairs to change. She was in one of her blue business suits that was purposely cut a little too low and the skirt a little too short. She loved the extra attention at work because she didn’t get a lot from her always absent husband. At first Matt decided he was going to close his eyes the whole time but quickly realized he would have to watch him mom the whole time or else he wouldn’t get any.