The family was sitting around one day, just being lazy not wanting to do anything in particular, when Lilian, the oldest at fourteen, asked her mother to tell her the story of when her and her father met. She loved that story, expecially since she was starting to become interested in boys herself.
Kat told her, "I don't know about that, you have heard it a million times by now. don't you ever get tired of it? Maybe another day, but not now."
"Please mom, please," Lilian begged.
"Come on, mom," Patrick teased.
"Okay, okay," Kat yielded.
"You see, your father was the baddest kid in school, and he was recruited by a guy named Joey to get me to go out with someone. Your father was being paid to do this, but the plan back fired, and your father fell for me, and eventually, he made me fall for him. But Joey was mad, he wanted his money back, he did not want us together either. He tried every trick in the book to try to break us up. You see, I used to go out with Joey, he still claimed me as his girl. But, I never considered myself as his girl. His trying to break your father and I up did not work. We stayed together through thick and thin. We stayed together because we are in love," Kat told her children.
"Love withstands the good and the bad times. When you grow up and fall in love, you will understand exactly what we are talking about. Just don't do it too fast my little squirts," Patrick finished for Kat.
'What does recruited mean, Dad," asked nine year old Craig.
