I gave Jake a big hug and told him to hang in there. Then I returned to Lorrie’s room.The doctor came in to check on Lorrie and the baby and to veri...y the progress.“Not long, getting real close, mother and baby are both doing good. I hear the media is in the lobby waiting for news,” the doc said.“They follow me like a pack of foxhounds most days, even to the bathroom to check out the smell if they could, “I replied.The doc went to check on Mindy; five minutes later there was a rush of activity. She sat down, pulled her legs under herself, and hid in the concentration on a useless commercial. Dan positioned himself on the floor next to her. They sat that way for nearly three hours. He waited and watched her response to the shows, and she tried to be cheerful, so that he would let her go back to sleep. Jo needed to go to the bathroom, but she didn’t want to change the dynamic. He wasn’t judging. It was a major step up from what Jesse had done nearly every waking moment for the past. She plants a kiss on my forehead and gets up, practically bounding to the door to let him him. She opens the door and she motions for him to come inside. “Hi Jon, come in.”He kisses her on the cheek and steps into the living room, wearing a pair of Nike Air Jordans, a pair of black basketball shorts and a shirt with the sleeves cut off. His head is tightly shaven and his dark complexion feels like it’s shining, reflecting the sunlight. “Hi,” he reaches over the round coffee table, offering his. She'd been there before and assured me it would be a relaxing time.We booked out bus tickets (neither of us drove) and after over nine hours on various roads, some good and some horrible, and on a couple of buses, modern and barely holding together, we arrived at our destination.The place was beautiful. Quiet, clear air, nothing but green and blue sky. We were staying in at a place which was made up of several self-contained cabins a few hundred yards apart from each other. Each cabin had a.