It was very difficult for her to eat out of a nosebag. Then sheheard familiar voices. It was John and her children. ?Lets us help the ponieswith their...feeding process.? He took the nosebag off and handfed her. Thechildren also held their hands up with flakes of oatmeal and she saw theirsurprised big blue eyes when she ate. Theirs ran down from her eye but becauseof the hood, they could not see it. ?Father. Why are theydressed up like this?? ?It is because theyhave broken the law. If you break. Her face was familiar. Even the look in her eyes as she came was the same as he had seen before. It was a treat once witnessed while they were both online alone in hotels thousands of miles apart from each other several years ago.But this situation, this was all new. His luggage, which he had remembered in a last moment of logical thought, was tossed in a pile inside the door. Her luggage was mixed into his, both sets seeming to embrace each other, spilling into the open mirrored coat closet. "That's understandable, since you're not attending college yourself, but there's a lot of prep work you have to do before you show up on their doorstep." Cate's arguments sounded a little too well-defined, as if she'd been practicing them for just this moment."Still, you could have given me a little warning. Like maybe when we were getting ready to leave the hotel this morning?" Don't worry," Cate told him, setting off for the walkway leading to the departure terminal, "I'm sure you'll manage. "Maybe you'll meet her next year," he finished. If only he'd had the brains to bring a picture of her in his wallet; but they'd been seeing each other at least once a week for a year, when they weren't seeing each other once a day. What need had he of a token to remember her by?Then the food came out, and everyone had other things on their mind. It was in all this chaos that Tina finally managed to approach him and say hi. "It's been too long," she said, her smile as bright as ever. Barry.