In fact, I like talking during dinner, remember?"It wasn't long before Bonnie had Corey talking about what he thought about going into first grade, bu... Tommy remained quiet during most of the dinner.Bonnie got them to take their plates into the kitchen, and after Tommy put his in the sink, she pulled him into her, and stroking his hair, she said, "I'm really sorry Tommy; I now your father's mad, but he's mad at me, not you. You and Corey didn't do anything wrong, and I'm sorry you had to see. "Maybe you should have," she laughed as she bent over and picked up oneof my dirty, smelly socks. She grinned wickedly. "Open up," she said andmy eyes went wide in shock. Surely she wasn't going to put that in mymouth-"No-" I said and she quickly rammed the balled up sock home. She heldthe palm of her hand flat over my lips and face as she gathered thescarf I had used and started to wrap it about my head. She got threeturns about me, each one tighter and tighter forcing my lips apart andholding. " Olivia's eyes flared, "Well, damnit, what's taking them so long? How long does it take for them to make 30 copies of 5 pages?!" Mark closed his eyes and took a breath. Olivia always got frazzled and bitchy when preparing for important presentations. He knew that all he had to do was shepherd her through the preparations, using his meticulous knack for execution to compliment her meticulous planning, and together they'd achieve another triumph. Just then, almost as if on cue, the phone rang in. Lexi laughed as Hellhound bounded back with a startled look as Cad snarled at him from the limb of his tree “don’t mind him, he has a hangover and is being surly, if he’d come down from his tree I would fix him up” Crispin laughed, Lexi gave him a mug of hot cocoa “sit down and tell me how you’ve been” she said, Crispin sat on the porch step with Lexi chatting for over an hour, he finally left giving her another big hug, saying his mother was calling him for breakfast. “If you’re alive and.