I’ll have to pay him a little rent, but not much. It’s a small town. I can save money, stay out of trouble this time, figure out what I want to do...next.”My interest perked up a little. “You were in trouble?”She laughed, loudly enough for others to turn around.“Oops, sorry.” She laughed again anyway. “Yeah, I was in a little trouble.” She paused, waiting for me to ask what kind of trouble.“What kind of trouble?” I had nothing else to do.“Whaddaya got?” she said, laughing again. “Sorry. Again.. "Thanks Drew, for catching me." She smiled at him.As she turned to lift the carton he froze again, lost in her movements. She reminded him of all that had been good in his life, of Viola and those dreams he once had nurtured, that inner hope of goodness most of us carry around.Mentally prying himself loose from his indecisiveness he realized that he needed to get away, before he made an even bigger nuisance of himself. Looking around he saw that they were almost finished anyway so, as she. Fourteen hours on Tuesday, seventeen hours on Wednesday and twelve today. But it was not unexpected. It gets like this during the holidays every year.Hooray for you for starting off the next chapter in the Christina saga. AND we still have eighteen days until we get past New Years. My list that I sent to Santa has a Christina/Karen moment right at the top of the list and with eighteen days of holiday parties yet to go it just might happen.Still waiting to hear from TGBL on chapters 6 & 7 so I. " Oh, we didn't do that when we got married." I know. We probably thought it was frivolous. We didn't know that nothing says fun and love like a bout of chest pains."Dana laughed again. "I can't remember you ever joking as much with me. With Luke and Jim, yes, but not ever with me. I use to envy the sarcastic responses you gave them so freely."Ray stopped his panting. "I'm so sorry Dana. I am such a fool." Not the only one. I never asked," she looked away. The burden of the past was sometimes.