"Fuck. Where is Seth now?" I asked with the intent to apologize to him. "He said he was going to sleep in his car. We took his keys, so at least I kno... he didn't leave." I decided not to wake him up, and would talk to him about it later. I got up and walked to the bathroom, found my jeans and shirt, applied them to my body, and got a few Tylenol. I was thinking about going back out to the living room, but instead walked back to the white room. I creaked the door open and laid back down in the. A man’s watch. The watch I’d given Phil for Christmas two years before.I went back to the office without saying anything. I wanted to give myself a little time to figure out what I wanted to do.Phil was at his desk in the outer room; I wanted to talk to him, but he was with a client.Later, Martha interrogated him over dinner at home, sparing me the effort. “How did it go with Christy last night?” she asked him.“We had fun.” He said.“That’s all?” Martha asked with a smile.“Mother!”“Don’t be so. ‘Don’t cry,’ Cooper pleaded when he saw the tears form in her eyes. ‘Callie, I love you and you know I hate seeing you cry,’ he murmured. ‘I just feel like I forced you into marrying me,’ she whispered. ‘You did, in a way, but Callie, if part of me didn’t want to be with you, I wouldn’t have agreed. I would have told your dad the truth, no matter that I promised I wouldn’t,’ Cooper assured her. ‘So you don’t hate me?’ ‘No Callie, I don’t hate you. Stop thinking that way. Yes, you should have. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the.