“Hey! What are you doing here this early?” Callie greeted her father as he led Pam and Dennis into the dining room. “Where’s Mom?”
“She stopped by the library to collect Maya and Maddie. I don’t know if Jimmy is joining us, but I know Mark is, and he said that you are to sit down and have lunch with us,” John said as he kissed Callie’s cheek. “And I hate to be a pest, but can I be seated where I can prop up my bum leg. Keeping it down for the drive has it throbbing a bit.”
“Dad, why didn’t you take something for it?” Callie asked, half scolding her father.
“Because it felt fine until we had been in the car for a while. We were halfway up the hill when it started,” John shrugged.
“And you wonder where Jimmy gets it from?” Callie said, rolling her eyes, before she took them to their tabl
