Joshbought us a couple of pints and we sat in our usual spot, in a corner neara large window. He sighed. "God, this week felt like it would never end!....I nodded."Andrea was a colossal bitch, wasn't she?" I responded. Josh just lookedat me with both a weariness that shared my misery and a cheerfulness thatspoke of the weekend to come. I continued. "In any case, we can forgetabout it all until Monday morning." That's if she doesn't call us in again," Josh moaned."She better not. We need to stop. From that day on, Kathy and Roy were known to everyone as "a pair" and the two never denied or discussed their relationship with anyone. Where you saw one, you saw the other ... PERIOD! They were frequently the topic of conversations among other children and adults, teachers in particular, because of the way that they openly exhibited the love that they shared, holding hands, kissing, hugging, never disagreeing and constantly smiling with and to each other.One night, when they were 12, Kathy. "I was back in record time for me. Jenny was lying on her back with the sheet pulled to her waist. I couldn't see her breasts, but I could sure see her nipples making big tents in her tee-shirt. She said, "I've seen you around the campus, but I don't know your name. I'm Jenny Holmes, and you can't possibly know how happy I am to make your acquaintance." Hello, Jenny, I'm Derek Hawkins. It's a pleasure to meet you, finally. I live in the house behind you, and I have seen you many times. I sure. He deserves that." This is not about me needing to have my way. This is about me missingour son. This is about me wanting to do him right. I want to raise ourson. I want to be the best mom for him, not my sister."Fred de-escalated the heated argument. His wife admitting she wanted toright a wrong took his temperature underneath its boiling point. "Alice,you are the best mom for Luke. You did him right by letting him move toCalifornia. It is hard. We all miss him and he misses us, but him.