’ And maybe if she’s not. Annie loved that Kendall held her tightly, even if she’d called her a problem. Her mother had abandoned her to her gra...dparents, and although she knew she should be grateful to them for taking care of her, she knew she was just a problem for them to fix. She hoped Kendall meant what she said, and prayed Reid Caufield was her father. ‘Okay, then. It’s just about time to close up, so I came out to help,’ Taylor said as she brushed her hands on her jeans clad thighs and. " I said as I rushed back into the cabin. The ship was leaning even more then I had realized as I entered the cabin, having to grab a hold of the railing to maintain my footing. Rushing hand over hand, I followed the railing to my sister's cabin. "Sophia!" I called as I knocked at her cabin door, "Wake up, the boat's sinking!" The door flew open almost instantly and my younger sister stood there, her face a mask of terror as my words sunk in. "We've got to get to the lifeboat!" I yelled over. For the evening, however, I simply wanted a good, old-fashioned ‘sammich.’ And a beer. Or three. Those I already had, chilling in the fridge in my apartment. The massive grocery store was bustling with last-minute shoppers getting those ‘damn, I can’t believe I forgot’ items, as well as depressingly familiar sad-sacks such as I, who had no sexy Christmas elf to go home to. Not that Jaclyn would have ever dressed up as an elf. Our sex life had been pretty vanilla, to be honest. Pattern of my. He had to change for his senior year. The bad thing was, since this year he was supposed to be a senior in France, he would have to be a senior again with the kids in the grade below him. He had the frozen look on his face, the kind that a lot of guys get when they are trying not to show any emotion, but there is really a ton of it bottled up inside.Mom and Dad came down. Mom was wearing a dress suit, and Dad had on a tie. "Case?" I asked Mom. Since we moved here, she had focused more on her.