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Wish Shift: Chapter Twenty One The Sand Between Her Toes Year 1 A.S. Day 115 "Hang on I want to ask Derek if he can get away," she said. Jenny quickly dialed Derek and talked to him for a few minutes and then hung up. "Derek can't come," she said obviously disappointed. "He can't get away from the shop today. If you had given us more notice he probably could have," she said turning back to packing her beach bag. Kira glanced at Dianne. She'd noticed the us in that sentence too and she was giving Kira a canary eating cat smile. "We'll do it next time then," she said to Jenny. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jenny had just finished her morning T'ai Chi session and was cleaning up when she heard knocking on her front door. She hadn't stepped into the shower yet, but she had already stripped off the clothes she was using and thrown them on the bed. She glanced down at them. The oversized shirt and light track pants didn't feel the same to her as the outfit she brought back from China. When the box of clothes she had Hong send her from Taubau had arrived she had felt a lot of relief that she now had so many more choices to wear than the things that Dianne and Kira had gone with her to get. Even mom and grandma's efforts in that had fallen a little short of what she needed. But the one thing she had not thought to get was another outfit for practicing T'ai Chi in. She shrugged it off and made do, but it still didn't stop her from wishing that she had thought that far ahead. She was thinking that she should order some more clothes soon for her later pregnancy and when she did, this time she was definitely going to get a larger outfit for her morning sessions. The knocking came again. "Hang on," she shouted from her room. "I need to put something on." It wasn't Derek. She had given him a key shortly after he started driving her everywhere. And he would just knock first and then come in and announce himself once she had told him that she didn't mind him doing that. "It's Kira, Jenny. Can we come in?" she heard hollered back to her through the metal walls. She leaned into the hallway and told them to go ahead. She finished slipping her long baggy nightshirt over her naked body and walked in the room to meet them. Kira and Dianne were already inside. She had heard the door open while the shirt was going over her head. They looked her over Kira's eyes widened a little. It had been a few weeks since they had seen each other. "My god, you're a fucking balloon. Do you go 'eeeeeee' if we squeeze you?" Kira said to her. She told Kira to get bent while she was hugging Dianne. When they finished Dianne drew back and also said that she looked so different from the last time that they were here. Jenny told them the babies were kicking her now and they insisted on waiting to feel if they would. One of the twins was cooperative after a few minutes and they both went googly-eyed at the sensation of the baby moving under her skin. She asked them why they hadn't let her know they would be coming down and they told her it was a spur of the moment decision and told her to pack a bag. When she asked what for, Dianne told her that it was bikini time for her. Jenny just started shaking her head and said there was no way that she was getting into a bikini. They asked her if she really had anything to do today and she told them she was just going to call Derek before he left for work and spend the day reading at Java Jolts, maybe she would to ask Belinda to come over if she saw her there. "So you can just pack up and go with us then?" Dianne asked. Jenny said she could and that was when she said to wait a minute while she called Derek. When he told her he couldn't come she asked him if they were still going to Kirby's tomorrow night and he said they were still on for that unless something else came up. When she got off of the phone she asked Kira and Dianne if they were going to be staying that long. Both of them nodded their heads. They had the next three days off. Jenny got a quick shower while they talked to her through the shower curtain. They had already booked a room overnight and they were just going to run up there and come back sometime late tomorrow afternoon. Jenny didn't have much to pack that she could use at the beach, but she did have a few things that would do double duty for the trip. Dianne told her while she was stuffing them into the bag that they would make sure to stop into a place to get her some things when they got to Myrtle Beach later on. She locked up the trailer behind her and followed them out to the car. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Year 1 A.S. Day 115 "I think you're going to need another one," Dianne said putting the swimsuit back. "I have gone up at least two cups in the last four months," Jenny said mournfully. "I told you that you looked like a grower," Dianne said handing her another one to try on. Unfortunately for Jenny, Dianne seemed to be right. She had just had to buy a couple of larger bras about a week before. Derek had taken her to get them and hadn't complained while she dipped into the changing booth to find which ones that fit best. Jenny still wasn't sure how she felt about becoming this large, but Dr. Waverly reassured her that she was still well within average so far and had given her some suggestions on what to look for when she went shopping. She also wasn't that wild about the idea of a bikini even though Dianne brought it up again when they walked into the surf shop just after they got into town. Jenny actually hadn't been to Myrtle Beach for a few years. When she had been stationed at Fort Bragg, she and some buddies had gone down there all the time when they had a free weekend. But after that she had seldom went. The last time was about a year before Kira and Dianne had gotten married. That was the trip that he wanted to take Sonya on with him. She would have loved going there. She glanced at the floor length mirrors at the end of the row of swimsuits. Well she's here now she thought to herself seeing her swollen form in the glass. Kira came over with a black one piece and handed it to her over the rack. "So when did you stop wearing your glasses?" she asked her. Jenny told them that she had been talking it over with Derek the last couple of weeks since he had asked her why she didn't get contacts. She actually had just started wearing them earlier this week. "I like it," Dianne said gathering another potential outfit up and throwing it on the pile. "You can see your eyes so much better this way." Kira asked her what she was talking about when she asked Derek if they were still on for Kirby's tomorrow night and what that might be. When she told them that it was the drive-in that they had started going to each week. Kira raised her eyes a bit, but didn't say anything yet. While Jenny was trying on the ones that they thought would fit she asked her how often that she saw Derek when he wasn't driving for her. When she came out to get their opinions on how the suit looked Dianne mentioned that she seemed to be spending almost all of her time with him there. Jenny was quick to point out that she was spending her time there reading and drinking tea and that mostly he was working while she relaxed out front. "So what does he do when he's not working and you're relaxing?" she asked her. "He'll come out and talk a bit," she said absently just as she found the bikini that Dianne had slipped in with the rest of them. "You know I can't wear this," she said holding it up. Dianne and Kira insisted that she just try it on anyway, so she did to make them stop pestering her about it. She had to say that even with how the pregnancy changed her body that she did like the way it looked on her. She wasn't going to buy it though and ducked out to give them a quick peek before she stripped it off. They finally settle on getting her a pretty sexy little black one-piece suit. It was cut so that at first glance it gave you the impression that she was wearing a two-piece but that was just how it looked. She mentioned to Dianne that it was a pity that she probably wouldn't be able to wear it again after she had the twins, but Dianne pointed out the material did stretch back somewhat and she might be able to if she didn't lose her new assets too quickly. Kira had also been trying on suits. She found one she liked and when she stepped out of the changing booth to show them Jenny noticed that she had also started wearing makeup as well. Not much today, just lipstick, but as comfortable as she seemed with it, it was a good bet that, not only was Dianne helping her wife, but was also probably setting her up with much more than what she had on now. Jenny got a few other things besides the one-piece. A new pair of sunglasses now that she had contacts in and wasn't wearing the prescription ones she had in her bag. A big floppy hat as well. She didn't have the same outlook as Sonya had about getting some sun, but at the same time she didn't want to not have one available either. A couple other items that caught her eyes went into the pile as well. It was only when they were separating her things into her beach bag that she saw that Dianne had put the bikini she had tried on into the to buy pile as well. When she found it she almost made Dianne take it back, but Dianne reminded her that she wouldn't be pregnant forever and that she would probably be glad of having it later on, even if she wasn't going to wear it now. Jenny gave in and put it into the bag with her other things. At least it wasn't like the ones that Sonya would have had to choose from before. Most of those had always put Jenny in mind of something a little girl would wear. They were just too cutesy for her. She was just putting it away when Kira remarked that she could use it to tease Derek with as well. She told her to get bent again and went back to putting her things in the bag. Jenny did her best to ignore that remark. She didn't want to talk about what she and Derek were right now. She was happy he was her friend and she really wished that he could have come down here with them, but she thought that these two were kind of starting to blow their relationship out of proportion. For what should have been the middle of the season there were considerably less people about the place than Jenny would have expected. The traffic was light and they were able to find the hotel fairly quickly. The room turned out to be much bigger than she expected that it would be. Jenny thought about when she and her buddies would come down here on weekends and cram themselves into a tiny double because that was all that was available even though they had money for more. The Shift had really hit places like this hard, she said to Dianne as they were making their way around the room putting their things away. Dianne asked Jenny what was the first thing she wanted to do now that they had gotten here and were ready to go. Jenny suggested that they just go downstairs and see what they could find to get into trouble with. Kira was just coming into the room with the rest of their stuff. Dianne brushed past her and gave her a quick kiss on her lips. "We're going out to get into trouble," she said as Jenny slid past them. Kira tossed what she was holding onto the bed, put her hands on her hips and cocked her head at Dianne before saying that they weren't going to do anything like that without her. Kira met them downstairs. She had taken long enough to change into her new bikini and had a gauzy beach wrap on over it. They headed out to the boardwalk and started passing by all of the small shops clustered together on their way to the sand ahead of them. There was one of those oversized fiberglass statues near the public beach entrance. Kira got someone to take their picture together on all of their phones while they were standing next to it. Jenny sent hers to Derek, telling him he should have come anyway. He sent her a message telling her that because of that photo, Mindy had just hit him with a towel for being stupid and not going with her. Then he said that both of them liked her new swimsuit and he hoped she had a good time. She felt a little goofy like this with her belly stretching out the material of the suit and the picture they had already taken, but instead of trying to suppress it she just went with it instead. She had Dianne take some screwy photos of her with the statue and sent them to Derek before they moved on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Year 1 A.S. Day 115 Derek had just finished ringing up what the small group had ordered when he heard his phone beep at him. He handed them back their change and reached for it. There was no one around at the moment so he checked it and saw the picture that Jenny had sent of them all by the silly statue. Mindy craned his head over his shoulder to see what it was. Derek looked back at him and put the phone away. "You get a good look Nosey?" he asked. "Sure did," Mindy said, "she looks good in that, I was wondering why she wasn't here today." "Her sisters came down this morning and dropped the trip on her out of the blue," he said wiping down the prep area. "And she didn't ask you to come?" Mindy said to him, reaching for the restock tray. "Oh she did, but it was last minute and there was no way I could..." Derek didn't get to finish. Mindy had whipped a towel end at his ear with a quick snap. "What the hell was that for Mindy?" he asked holding his ear. "For being stupid," he said, "You should have just gone." "For Christ sakes, I'm the boss Mindy. I just can't take off just for the hell of it like that," he said rubbing his ear. "Yes, you can," he said. "You know I've got your back in this. All you had to do was ask. I was already on the schedule all day anyway and Jamaal could have come in or Teddy. Neither one would turn down the extra hours. You should have gone." Derek looked back at him. "Snapping the boss's ear with a towel probably isn't a good thing even if you were my girlfriend Mindy," he said. "Then next time call me and go with her," he said, "Don't be stupid and I won't snap you." Derek ignored him and pulled his phone out of his pocket and went back to looking at the pictures she had sent him. He kind of wished he had gone. At least now his ear wouldn't sting if he had. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Year 1 A.S. Day 115 They ducked into one of the t-shirt shops on the oceanfront and started browsing. Jenny said that since they were here she wanted to get a couple to take back with her. She looked for one of the raunchy 'Big Johnson' ones to get for Derek, but she didn't see any and looked until she found something close enough. If there was one thing you could find here it was raunchy t-shirts. While she was pawing through them Dianne came up to her and handed her a black fake leather handbag with a gilded chain strap. It looked nice enough, but you could tell that it wasn't anything expensive. She looked it over and said it was nice. Dianne asked her if she liked it. Jenny said pretty much that she did. "Good," Dianne said, "because I'm getting it for you. It's time you had something besides the murse." Jenny told her that murse found her lack of faith disturbing, but Dianne came back with murse would have to learn to live with it. "It's not like a wallet, Jenny," she said, "it's ok to have more than one. Now, no more buts. Just consider it happy birthday or something and say thank you." Jenny could see that Dianne had her mind made up with this, so she just said thanks and paid for her other things and tucked it into the shopping bag. They weren't the only ones there, but just like the roads, the beach itself was much emptier than Jenny expected it to be. They found a good spot and took turns guarding their stuff while the others waded in the surf. Jenny would have liked to swim, but wasn't sure that she should try right now. Pregnancy aside, Sonya had swum like a rock and even though Jenny knew what she should do to swim, she didn't think that part of her body density had changed that much. She sighed and promised herself to find the hotel pool and give it a go in safer surroundings later on tonight. They spent the rest of the afternoon there. Jenny made sure she brought her big bottle of sun block. She wasn't against a tan like Sonya had been, but she knew she damned sure didn't want a burn. After they finally lay down on the towels Jenny started telling Dianne about how well it was going with Dr. Min. Dr. Min had finally started her on written Chinese after talking about doing so for the last couple of weeks. Kira was pretty impressed when Jenny told her that Dr. Min told her that she could probably go back to China now and have only a little trouble understanding anyone there. Jenny told her that she found it pretty amazing, since before the Shift she had struggled to master the little Chinese that she did know. Just after sunset they walked down the beach to one of the restaurants out on the pier that were still open. Jenny was in heaven there. She had been craving seafood all week and having it fresh while listening to the surf and smelling the salt air just made it even better in her opinion. When they finally got back to turn in Jenny said she wanted to sit on the balcony and watch the surf coming in for a bit in the moonlight. Kira told her to take her time with it. She and Dianne were going to step out for some time to themselves for a little while. She watched the breakers curling alone outside the room. The white foam standing out in the pale moonlight as it moved to the tide line and back again. She really felt relaxed today, but now that she was alone she really noticed that she was. For some reason she thought it shouldn't bother her. But then, if she really thought about it she hadn't been just by herself for a long time. She had been alone the first couple of months when she moved to China, but then she had met Sonya and except for short times apart here and there they were always together. When she came back she had always had some family near her most of the time. And now she was mostly spending all of her time around Derek. She had really liked the idea of coming here when Kira and Dianne had shown up and sprung it on her. She had missed both of them so much and she was so glad that they had come down to share this with her. She watched the breakers some more and listened to the roaring of the surf around her. Their room was on the ground floor. The management didn't seem to have too much trouble with making it available, especially after Dianne had walked in behind Kira with Jenny in tow. She decided that she would like to take a walk now. She got up out of the chair and shut the glass of the sliding door behind her. After making sure that she had her door card tucked safely in her swimsuit top she locked it and stepped across the pavement and walked down to the beach. The sand beneath her feet was cool now and as she got closer to where the surf rolled in, it got wet and hard packed as well. She liked feeling it beneath her feet. No matter what else had changed since the last time she was here this was something from her past that was the same. She heard the squawking of birds overhead during the day, but now it was just the rumble of the surf and the sound of her heels crunching on the wet sand and the cool of the salty night air blowing around her. She stopped at one of the concrete pilings jutting up from the sand, near the pier, not far from their hotel. This must have been an old one that was torn down and replaced a while ago. They had piled the wood in a stack just at the edge of where the dunes started rising from the hard packed sand. She wondered if it had been just damaged too badly in some past storm and was not worth rebuilding again. Jenny paused there and then sat down. It was surprising to her how often she was finding herself having to need to do that lately. The wind whipped her hair all around her as she sat quietly and she thought of what she had told Derek when he asked her about Sonya. It would have been nice if he could have come she thought to herself as she sat there watching the surf rolling in. She looked down the dark beach to about where she thought their hotel was. She hadn't walked that far, but she couldn't tell if the light was on in their room from here. She wondered what Derek was doing now and then realized that she didn't need to wonder. She had been spending so much time with him lately she knew what he was probably doing right now. She had a lot to tell him about this trip when she got back the next time they talked. She was looking forward to it, but she had been away from their room long enough. She stood up from the piling and started walking back to the hotel. The wet packed sand held the shallow imprints of her passage behind her as she made her way back. It was good to feel how solid it was beneath her feet she thought. In a way she thought that this would be a good metaphor for her life right now. It was solid now, but she also remembered how sand could shift quickly beneath you if you weren't paying attention. She thought that it was a lot like what all of their lives were like these days. Especially when what you consider how often what you leave behind gets washed away she thought, eyeing how the surf was rolling in to her left and filling in her footprints as she walked along the shoreline. She saw the hotel come into clear view. She stopped and turned out to face the incoming surf. She thought about how strange it had felt to have spent today not having Derek around. Even with how much fun she had been having with Dianne and Kira, it felt a little odd with him being absent. I'll just have to get him to come along next time, she told herself and took a few minutes while she was standing there to stretch her feet into the sand and savoring the cool grains moving between her toes right now. She felt some of the sand hump over her feet as she burrowed them into the coolness. She stood there like that for a little while before shaking them off and heading back to the room. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Year 1 A.S. Day 116 Jenny got up before Kira and Dianne did. They had gotten back late and still weren't up. She had gone down for the hotel breakfast and then sat by the pool for a little while. She had just about decided to get into the shallow end of the pool when Dianne came up behind her and sat down in one of the other lounge chairs. "You look like you two had a late night," Jenny said. "Oh we did," she said and stretched in the chair. "We didn't wake you when we came in did we?" she asked. "No," Jenny said listening to the seagulls crying overhead. "Good," she said, "cause Kira and I have something special in mind for you today." Jenny looked over at her sister-in-law. "Just what do the two of you have cooked up?" Dianne tried her best to look innocent and only slightly failed. "Nuh- thin," she said sounding chirpy again. Jenny knew it was something though. Dianne only sounded chirpy before she had some playful ambush lined up. "What is it Dianne?" she asked. Dianne swung her legs off of the chair and walked over to Jenny. "It's a surprise, and that's all I'm going to say, except I think you'll like it. She gave Jenny a quick hug and told her that she was going to go back to help Kira pack up the room before they left. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Year 1 A.S. Day 116 "So your big surprise is taking me to get my nails done?" Jenny asked Dianne when they pulled up to the little Korean shop. "Not just you," she said. "All of us, Kira too," Jenny looked over the little shop. It was one of the micro shops that get shoehorned into every strip mall whenever they get built. "But I think my nails are fine," she said holding them up. "And this will make them better," Dianne said. "After all we women don't just wear cosmetics, do our nails and dress nice to hide our little imperfections, we also use it to drive the men in our lives a bit crazy too." "You realize what you just admitted right?" Jenny said. "Hah!" scoffed Kira "Like that was any big secret. Come on sis, let's go in," she got out of the car. "And just so you know," she said as she helped Jenny out of the back seat. "She's been working on me a lot longer for this than she has on you. So come on in, let it happen and just enjoy it." "Besides," Dianne said closing her door. "Think of how much fun it will be having them to distract Derek with when we get back." Jenny didn't say anything, but she figured that she was probably right about that. She followed her in while Kira closed the car doors and locked them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kira leaned over to Jenny. "Guess what," she said. "I don't know, tell me," Jenny said trying to lay back while the Hispanic woman started shaping her nails. "Dianne and I are really back together now," she said looking pleased with herself. "Now I'm confused," Jenny said. "What my letch of a husband means is we're having sex again," Dianne said. "So you found a way to get past both of you being straight?" she said. "Well shit, I'm glad you worked that out." "Yeah," Kira said. "Turns out all we really had to do was make sure there was a dick somewhere in the mix and we're fine." Jenny had been about to take a drink from the paper cup of water the nail stylist had given her. "You're kidding," she said snorting and looking at her. "Nope she's not," Dianne said. "We've been having a lot of three-ways lately. Turns out we both get hot from the same kind of guys so now we just invite them home to play." Jenny's mouth fell open and she looked back and forth between the two women. "You're not kidding," she said. "Nope," Kira said. "As long as we've got a guy both of us just fall into it and being straight doesn't matter to either of us anymore," she blew a kiss at Dianne and she reached into her beach bag and took out a ping pong paddle and shook it at Kira and then put it back. "Play nice," she said "Or I won't use it on you later," she threatened. Jenny took a drink of the water. She was happy for the two of them that they found a way to be together again. She thought that there was something going on during this trip. It was the first time that she had seen them acting like they had before the Shift. Kira leaned over to Dianne. "We should call up Krystal when we get back. That man just fucks so damned good." "Yes he does," Dianne agreed. "Probably because he used to be a woman." Jenny almost choked on the water this time. After she finished coughing she turned to Kira and Dianne. "You bitches! You did that on purpose," she sputtered between coughs. "Yes I did," Kira said sounding pleased with herself. "I had to do it now or I'd have screwed up your nails if I did it later." "Don't worry hon," Dianne said smacking the paddle against her hand. "She's gonna pay for that. I'm gonna turn her sexy brown ass red later." "And you're just as bad," Jenny said. "Of course I am," Dianne said sweetly, batting her eyes innocently. "You did say we've been around each other too long." Jenny looked back and forth between Kira and Dianne. "I am so going to get you guys for this. I don't know when, but I'm going to get you. You two are as bad as Dr. Nakamura." "Oh really?" Kira said her eyes lighting up with interest. "Spill sister, now I gotta hear about how tiny doctor is as bad as the two of us." "You asked for it," Jenny said and started telling them about last week in the lab. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jenny heard Dr. Min laughing with Dr. Nakamura when she came back from the bathroom. Dr. Min excused herself and left to either lose herself in laughter privately or she genuinely had someplace to go. She looked down to the little red haired woman. "Did I miss something?" she asked. "Dr. Min asked me what I was doing last weekend," she said innocently. "And that made her laugh?" she asked still trying to see the joke and failing. "That didn't, but me telling her how I got lucky did," she said. Jenny's jaw dropped. Dr. Nakamura kept talking. "I don't know who he was before, but he has a real thing for little women now," she said in a sultry satisfied way. Jenny raised her eyebrows. Her mouth still wide open "And he's got some stamina too," she added. Jenny started to try to hold in her giggle picturing the professional woman she had been working with in such a fashion. "I'm pretty sure he'll be back next weekend too," she said slyly "After all. I am magically delicious," she said with a sexy little shimmy. Jenny lost control of herself and followed Dr. Min's path out the door laughing hysterically. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Oh my god," Kira said laughing, "She actually said that?" "Yes she did," Jenny said, "And ever since she did, I've been trying to figure out just what the hell those two get up to, cause she said he is a real big guy." "What does he do?" Dianne sputtered. "Pick her up and just hold her in front of him?" "I don't know," Jenny said, "But he must be doing something right, cause she has had the biggest grin on her face for the last two weeks." "You know I'm happy for her," Kira said, "But I just can't picture it without it getting weird," she said giggling some more at the thought. "Ok," Dianne said, "That's enough ladies. Change of subject." She leaned over to Jenny. "So how is Derek in the sack?" Jenny choked again. "Dianne," she sputtered. "I don't know." "Well, let us know when you find out," Kira said leering at her. "I am so gonna get you guys," Jenny said not sure which one to glare at first. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Year 1 A.S. Day 118 Dianne and Kira had enjoyed going to the drive-in with Jenny and Derek when they got back from the beach. Instead of crowding into the truck bed they had used it for a table and laid the chairs out in front of it. Jenny and Kira had sat in the middle with Dianne and Derek on each side. The films were older ones. Some that had been reissued or just part of Kirby's private collection, they couldn't tell which and it didn't matter anyway. After the show was over they had driven back to Jenny's place and both Kira and Dianne hugged her tightly before climbing into their car to get on the road. Jenny asked them if they were sure they couldn't stay the night, but they told her as much as they would like to they needed to go. Derek said good night to all of them and told Jenny he'd be back in the morning to pick her up. They watched him pull his jeep out of her lot and drive away. They waved at her and then Dianne watched her grow small behind them as they drove away. As Kira put the car onto the interstate he briefly looked over at Dianne. "Did you notice that?" she asked. "Notice what?" Dianne answered looking over at her. "Did you notice that she changed as soon as we got back from the beach?" Kira said nudging the gas pedal to pass a semi. "Yeah, I did. I also noticed that even though she started sputtering when we brought up her and Derek having some sack time together earlier she didn't get mad about it," she said. "I noticed that too," Kira said, "I really shouldn't have done that, but I was kind of in the moment and it just came out." "You know, she had a good time with us and I know she wouldn't have wanted to miss that road trip, but she wanted to be back there too. She didn't perk up totally until she got back," Kira said. "Do you think she knows she was doing that?" Dianne asked her. "That she was missing him? Hard to say. I didn't even see it at first so she may not have made the connection that was what it was to her," Kira looked thoughtful. "I know that she kept sending pictures to him the whole time she was there. It was kind of hard not to see she was trying to have him there even when he wasn't," Dianne said watching the highway. "But then, she's been spending almost all of her time with him ever since she got too big to drive too," Kira said setting the cruise control now that the road was mostly clear ahead of them. "That's what I mean," Dianne said. "He is easily the most important person in her life right now. He drives her around, he takes her to get her food, they go out to eat, he's there when she's not working at the institute, she spends all of her free time almost, at his place talking with him. And then she does it again the next day and the day after that. She has been depending on him for practically everything since she got behind the wheel and found out she couldn't do it herself anymore." "We've been tied up back home with everything else, but we haven't worried about her because we know he has been there for her the whole time. We've been depending on him because he's a good man, but she depends on him for so much more and I don't think she really realized how big a part of her life he has become until this weekend," Dianne finished. "I'm not sure that's really a bad thing," Kira said. "We haven't been down here for weeks and I could see right away that she's in a much better place now personally than she was when we left her." "And I saw that too," Dianne said. "But we both know that he is a big part of that, even if she doesn't fully get it yet. But even with him being good for her just being there, it's not going to stay that way. I think something is coming between them and I don't think she even realizes that it is." Kira slowed down to go past a stopped convoy. The road guard waved them around it with her flashlight. When they passed it she accelerated again. "I should come back here next weekend," Kira said slowly. "Ok," Dianne said. "What do you have in mind?" "I think that maybe George and I should bring the boat down here next weekend and we should take her and Derek fishing at the lake," she said. "So what do you think that will do other than boost your lifetime catch record?" she asked. She wasn't really serious, but she did want to know just what it was that Kira had in mind." "I think I'd like to let George see the both of them, I think I'd like to get his take on this," she said. "He knows what Jenny was like inside as well as any of us. She hasn't changed who she is that way and maybe he can see something in her now that we can't." "And what good would that do? Other than get George out doing something he loves. Which I'm all for by the way," Dianne said. "It won't do anything, but maybe let us know if we really are seeing this. And George hasn't met Derek yet. All he knows is what we have told him and unless someone has been dogging Derek behind our backs, he should have a pretty clear idea of what's brewing there. If nothing else we may get a heads up to what you think is coming, whatever that is," Kira said. "I think we both know what that probably will be," Dianne said. "That may be," Kira said, "but we're always going to be bystanders in this until we have to be something else. We might as well have a front row seat when we can get it." "You sure she's up to it?" Dianne asked. "She's getting a little bigger than I thought she'd be." "She probably is," Kira said, "if not, then she can just sit in the boat and we can talk. The real question is are me and George up to it." "Dianne leaned over and kissed Kira's cheek. "Let me know what you find out," she said to her and turned back to watching the road whisk by under their headlights.