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“Well, my goodness. We seem to have a lot of visitors,” Grandpa Bob says after walking down the hall.
“Sorry about that, Bob. We don’t have a generator like you guys.”
“No need to apologize. The more the merrier.”
“Bob and Mina, this is Anna,” Dean introduces.
“I’m Dylan’s mom.” She doesn’t waste a beat before explaining.
“Ah,” they both say, after shaking her hand.
“So, what brings you here? I thought you were pretty absent,” Grandpa asks, after sitting down on his recliner.
“Grandpa!”
“What?”
“No, it’s okay,” Anna responds. “That’s true. But Dylan is actually going to come down to Mexico and spend a little time there with me and my boyfriend.”
I shoot Dean a glance, but he just shrugs. That does not sound like a good idea at all to me, and I’d like to know what he’s thinking by agreeing to such a thing.
But I don’t dare confront either of them in front of the kids, so I keep my mouth shut and instead get the fixings for them to make s’mores. I make sure everything is peanut-free before handing them over.
“Hey, Dylan,” Mina says shyly. I completely forgot about their little falling out.
“Hi, Mina.”
After those introductions, they seem to go back to where they were before Dylan kind of freaked out, and they’re back to acting like the best of friends. Mina even picks on him for burning his marshmallow and then struggling to get it off the stick. Dylan responds by laughing along.
“Well, they seem better,” Dean says quietly to me in the kitchen, while I’m making cocktails for the adults.
“They sure do. I’m glad. I could tell Mina missed him.”
“Oh, and he missed her, too. Trust me.”
“I know. I saw the drawings.”
He sucks air in between his teeth but then laughs. “That’s right. Thanks for being cool about that.”
“I wouldn’t have embarrassed him.”
“I know. I appreciate that,” Dean tells me.
“What are we talking about over here?” Anna inserts her way into the conversation.
“Nothing. I’m just making some hot toddies. Before I can offer, Anna tells me to fix her one. What a lovely woman.
“So, were you discussing the condo situation?” she continues.
I feel my blood start to boil. Why does she know about that?
“Well, it really isn’t an issue anymore. Right, Dean?”
Anna jumps in again. “We were just talking about how ironic it is that Dean seems all too willing to dump his goals or projects when a woman is involved.”
“What?”
Dean looks at me cautiously. “When we were kids, she convinced me not to finish demolishing her tree house.”
