The tree was surrounded with several packages though. I’d shopped for Doris and little Brad. I was sure that their Christmas here would be far bette... than what his father would bother with.I allowed a small chuckle. “It’s okay, you can say you hate them,” I told her. “They’re nowhere near the tasteful effect that you got from the service, but we picked everything out and did it together.”She nodded. “It’s ... colorful,” she allowed, trying not to start with fighting over decorations. She joined. Not wanting to appear worried about what had happened, she took some eggs out of the refrigerator and started to make breakfast on the stove."Mom?" She heard come over her shoulder a couple of minutes later as she cooked, then felt her son's hand lightly touch her shoulder, causing her to pause. "You okay?" Listen, I think we need to talk."Dustin moved his hand away from his mom and said, "Yeah, I figured as much, by the way you ran out of my room." Yes. I shouldn't have left abruptly like. There was drywall on one side of the walls but we could tell how everything was going to be when it was done. He had the whole place wired for phone and cable and even had some data cables run into a closet for a future network. He had phone and cable into the closet so a DSL line could be plugged into the network whether the tenant got one over the phone line or via cable.He went over the locations for the various appliances and made sure the two girls were happy with it, now that it was. "Kennewick is a hell of a lot closer to your family than Philadelphia is. We will meet up with your dad today. I am sure of it." OK," Molly agreed."We need to hustle," Josh added. "The major gave us thirty minutes to shower, dress and pack up for departure." Thirty minutes?" Molly gasped. "Oh shit!" She flew out of bed and hurried to the bathroom. Josh dressed and hoped Molly would leave him two minutes in the bathroom before they had to be downstairs. She did leave him three whole minutes to.