“I love being here with you.” My stepdad Callum, or Cal as I knew him, was a pretty cool guy. He was six years younger than Mom and ran an inves...ment practice in Santa Barbara. He’d been single now for three years since hitting 32 when he split with Mom. They’d been together for ten years from when I turned five. He seemed somewhat lonely to me. Yet our trips away were always fun. Aside from the cabin this year we’d been to Carmel and Big Sur, and were planning a trip to San Fran at Xmas to. " Thanks Kate, but you should have waked me up. I'll go make lunch, it wont take long I promise." She tried to get up while talking but her legs failed her.Well, sleeping over 5 hours one chair isn't a good idea Nedia. She told herself in a sarcastic way."I think you should spend the rest of the day I bed Nedia. I already made lunch, the children ate 2 hours ago and I was waiting for you. So, what do you say I put them both in bed for a nap then I'll bring lunch here so we can eat and talk. We were going to a baseball game! Thousands of people would see me!I'd been so excited when Richard asked me to go with him. I'd played fast pitch softball through junior high and high school. I wasn't a star or anything, but I was pretty good. I had become a big baseball fan. The Knights were in a race for the division title for the first time in history and the whole city was behind them. Most of the games were selling out, or close to it. Plus, Rick McKenzie had hit 71 home runs and might. She opened the door to her apartment, everything was quiet, no light, Steve was on a business trip and she did not expect him to be home for another 2 days. She turned the lights on, nothing, the light bulb did not work. She did not really care, slipped out of her high heels and went in the dark to the bathroom door to get out of her clothes and take a shower. She smelled the cold smoke on her from the bar she was at. She slipped out of her dress, put it to the dirty clothes, she opened her bra.