Christine was standing in the living room when James got home. She was talking to her brother, Jack, on her cell.
"No, of course, we want to see you guys, too," she said, as her husband lugged two heavy bags into the kitchen. Molly was behind her father. She looked a little off -- her lips were kind of
red? -- but Christine put it out of her mind. She had enough problems without imagining new ones.
"We still have time before the end of the summer," Jack said over the phone. Christine tried to force her focus back on the conversation. Her older brother lived on the other side of the state. He'd gotten married to a girl named Kelly a few years before Christine had married James and had two kids around Lexi and Austin's age. When they got together, both families got along pretty well. Some
