"I think it's the new drugs you put him on…" Reva said. "That morphine was just making him sleep… But whatever you have him on now…" She looked through the window at her son and smiled. "He's laughing…"

"And I'll bet…" Ed said. "That you've been so busy trying to push that food onto your son that you've forgotten to eat yourself…"

Reva turned her gaze back to Ed. "You're right…" she said.

"You can get something to eat in the cafeteria…" Ed said. "I'm on my way there now for my lunch break… Why don't you come with me?"

Reva turned her gaze back to the window, her eyes locked onto her son.

"He'll be fine…" Ed said. "Besides… He seems pretty preoccupied at the moment…"

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"You keep on pushing me, Jeffrey, but when was the last time that you ate anything?" Sandy asked.

"I dunno…" Jeffrey replied. "Does it matter?"

"You seriously can't remember?"

"Sometime… Yesterday… I guess…. Unless you count that bite of Jell-O…"

"You can have my gruel if you want it…" Sandy smiled.

"No thanks…" Jeffrey replied. "I think I'll pass…"

"You sure?" Sandy said. "It's so appetizing…"

Jeffrey chuckled slightly. "Yeah, I'm sure…" he said.

"You can go, you know…" Sandy said. "Eat some decent food… Get some sleep…"

"It's the afternoon, why would I want to sleep?"

"You couldn't've gotten much sleep last night on that chair…" Sandy replied.

"I didn't wanna leave you again…" Jeffrey said.

"I'll be fine…" Sandy said. "Really, I mean, it's not like I'm going anywhere… Ed said that I'll have to be here about five more days… I couldn't expect you to sit there for every last second of it…"

"I'll go after you eat your gruel…" Jeffrey said.

"Well then…" Sandy replied. "I guess that you're stuck here for the duration…"

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"See, don't you feel better now that you've had something to eat?" Ed asked.

"I guess so…" Reva said. "But I guess I was beginning to feel better when I saw my son smile… Even though I know that it's just the drugs…"

"Maybe it isn't just the drugs…" Ed said.

"Oh please, Ed, don't start that crap with me…" Reva said.

Ed laughed. "I wasn't starting anything… I was just stating the blatantly obvious…"

"Yeah…" Reva said, her smile suddenly faded. "Well… Don't…"

"I can see why it bothers you…" Ed said. "I mean… I don't understand how it wouldn't bother Sandy…"

"How what wouldn't bother Sandy? That Jeffrey O'Neill is a jerk who invites nothing but trouble onto himself and into the lives of everyone around him?"

"Well… That…" Ed said. "And… You know…"

"What?"

"His face…"

Reva didn't know how to respond to that.

"He looks exactly like Richard…" Ed said. "I mean, I know that Sandy wasn't raised by him, and probably considers someone else to be his father, but still… He is aware of what Richard looked like… It just doesn't make sense that someone could get past that so easily…Even if there is no genetic link between Richard and Jeffrey…"

Reva sighed and didn't say a word. She was lost in her thoughts, which had turned to her son's father.

"Reva?" Ed said. "Do you hear anything that I am saying to you?"

"Huh?" Reva said. "Yeah… It's weird…"

"You appear to have zoned out on me there for a minute…" Ed said.

"Thanks for lunch, Ed…" Reva said. "But I have to get back to my son…"

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