Amber looked at the two of them; she glanced at their faces one by one and asked sternly, "Did you guys go play together?"
Both denied with unison, "No!" Tessa sighed. "I ran into him on the way."
Amber let them in and didn't take her stern eyes off them. The next day, Tessa wakes up in the morning and hears Joseph doing something and not coming down for breakfast. At the dinner table, Tessa tells her father about going to America for her winter vacation.
Her grandmother had called her father about the vacation, and her father's tough attitude softened for a moment, so Sean didn't mind letting his daughter go.
Since the last bar incident, Sean had been relaxed with her, and some things had passed without looking the other way. Still, the relationship between father and daughter was col
