I was going to have to make some phone calls if he got tied up.Jill pulled up her right sleeve and got her hand out, taking my left. We just walked ar...und the mall, glancing in the windows, not seeing anything. The photographs were gone and hadn't been replaced with another display."I've walked to school with Mary all week. I found out I really didn't know my sister. She's a pretty cool person." That's good. Is she behaving herself?" Yes, she is. She did say one thing I found hard to believe.". She reminded me again how she’d kept to her word and was now down to just one night a week each with Callan and Malcolm – keeping her word, even though it had been hard. When we were talking about this, she let slip that she knew that during our three-week separation I’d not kept my word to stay away from Veronica, using this to make me feel guilty.Having made this tiniest of cracks in my defenses, Jill emphasized over and over that this was a final farewell, that she’d not see the boys after. It was beautiful. This was it, this is what I had been looking for.So enthralled was I by the chests contents that I didn't even notice Liz come up behind me. "Hey what's that? She called out to me, a puzzled look upon her face.Snapped out of my stupor, I quickly slammed the lid closed "It's nothing!" I shouted as I scrambled to my feet. My heart was beating like a race horse, and I had to take a moment to try and collect myself.Putting on my most convincing face "Actually it’s your outfit. Shebecame bashful and nervous again. “We better get intowork. I know that boss of yours can be a real asshole ifyou’re not in on time.”She laughed at my joke. The joke broke the suddenawkward tension.For the next couple of weeks, I kissed her on the cheekto and say “Thank you” for basically her just doing herjob. I noticed she became more relaxed about it.One evening as I left her desk and walked back into myoffice I sighed, “I wish she’d show a little.