What are you doing in here?" I asked, "Why are you still here? Don't you want to go home?" "I was lifting weights. No sense in paying for a gym member...hip when you can do it at your workplace for free," he replied. "Yeah, I suppose that's a good point," I returned my attention back to the closet to continue looking for the water coolers, when suddenly I felt someone standing right behind me. I stood up straight, and turned around to see Mr. Patterson standing less than a foot away from me. "You. For Melinda, it involved getting up and going to the university and being the chair of the English department, publishing a paper or two and being a mommy to four wonderful children. For me, it was school and daycare and cleaning up around the house and picking the kids up and driving all over Creation to do the little things necessary to keep our household running. Spontaneity was generally gone from our lives.We also had two housemates, two lovers, two best friends and two partners in our. "You know, this wasn't how it was supposed to happen right? Never meant it to, never thought it would. Pretty stupid huh?" Jethro said softly.Mac took Jet's face in his hands. "Don't apologize, beautiful boy. I know. I understand, I can't wait for you to be a father. If I can't ... if we can't ... being the best damn uncle I can be will just have to do, eh? And your brother. We can do this, Jet. We have to. And loving you from afar. I will not encourage you or tempt you to break your vows. Our. "We're also going to have a family meeting tonight so I want to make sure you're all here around nine tonight. Do you know where Steve is?" Yeah, he's over at Tommy's house, Dad, but he'll be back long before that." Okay, good," I said; I still had no idea where this was all going to lead, one thing was for sure though, the relationship between my wife and me was going to be noticeably strained and I didn't see any reason to hold out telling the kids what was happening. They were obviously.