Does it matter?’ She shook her head. ‘No, no. I can look it up. One moment.’ ‘Wait–‘ I bit back a groan as she began tapping at her keyboa...d again,. ‘Could you not take the message first and then look him up? It’s just that–‘ And then I stopped, hearing that distinctive ping. There was no time left… ‘Please?’ All at once I saw a flash of understanding in the receptionist’s expression as her focus shifted to a spot somewhere behind me and I knew she was watching Daniel emerge from the lift.. I was waiting with Megan forour dates to arrive, hers came first but he looked ashen."I think I saw Stans car at the intersection! It was really smashed up.Get in my car and we'll go check on him."We got to the accident scene and I could see him, bleeding from the head,but the firemen would not let us get close or touch him. But he saw meand smiled, so I had hope. It took the firemen a long time to get him outbefore they sent him to the hospital.I had called his mom and told herwhat I knew and. So he got the keys, unlocked my door and came up to me. I was laying on the bed, head down and weeping. Caressing my hair he said, at least turn around, let me look at you….you are looking so beautiful tonight.Slowly and with a lot of pleas from him, I turned around. He took my face in hands, hissing and saying sorry, he started kissing it. His warm kisses felt sooo good & somehow i let him kiss me.Then he pulled away and looking into my eyes he started rubbing my lips with his fingers. He. Of course, we were now joined by my daughter, my father and baby daddy, my brother and lover, and my mom and my new sister. My mom was now a grandmother and a mother once more and it just couldn’t have been any more messed up unless we were on Jerry Springer. None the less, we all enjoyed our dinner and relaxed in the movie room, having popcorn and soda as the night grew late. It was so nice to be a family again and I let Mikey know as I slid into his arms that night and fell asleep with him by.