Joseph's.We entered emergency and found several people ahead of me. I stepped to the admitting window and a nurse took my information and care card. I...would have to wait for a doctor to examine me."I'll stay here with you, Love," she said. "I'm just going to park the car and I'll be right back.I gave her a light kiss of thanks and got a smile in return.It was almost an hour before I was ushered into a little cubicle and a rather harried looking young doctor came in. He confirmed that indeed I. Dad says ‘standard brown-haired girl’. That’s Haley. Smart, though. VERY smart. Funny. Mom, she’s just NICE. I’m glad for both of ‘em.”“I’ll try to be,” Mom said. “Best for all of us. Go get ‘er.”I brought Haley into my bedroom.“Wow! Nice place,” she said.“I’ll leave you two to load this up,” Mom said as she left us.Haley looked at me, softly said, “You okay?”“Yeah,” I nodded.“Your mom okay?”“Yeah ... Mostly. We’ll talk on the way home.” I paused. “On the way HOME.” For emphasis.We put all the. “Hey, gorgeous how are you?”“I’m great, have you been watching us tan?” she asked coyly.“W- no, I was just, um checking the weather”“Really well, you’re,” she cleared her throat, “’friend’ seems to have seen us. So what were you thinking about?”“Actually, I was thinking about that day we, ya know, madeout,”“Oh yeah?” she stammered still quite focused on his raging hard on, “That was good day,” she smiled.“I agree, so why didn’t we ever go further than that?”“Well, you were Iz’s brother and we. Thank goodness, his face breaks into a huge smile which immediately warms me and I exhale my held breath. Stepping forward, he pulls me into his chest, enveloping me with his loving arms, squeezing out all my insecurities. I hug him tightly, afraid if I let go he will disappear. His hand lifts my chin to face him and we stare into each other's eyes for the first time.“Hey, baby. I’m so happy to finally meet you.”I let out an embarrassing, nervous squeal. “Forgive me. I’m very, very nervous,” I.