Karen's plans consisted of dinner with Larry and both their daughters. Larry and Karen had plenty of dates where Kaitlyn tagged along because Lucas or the sitter weren't available. Peyton, Karen, and Larry had lunch together but all four of them hadn't been together yet.
"I asked Lucas if he was sure he didn't want to join us," Karen said, "but he offered to close the café instead. He said we all should bond, he's been around enough. It was a little odd," Peyton got a little uncomfortable, "but it ended up working out because I couldn't find anyone else to close. He better come next time though."
"That's probably my fault," Peyton spoke up. "We had an awkward misunderstanding, but I thought we were ok," she paused, "don't tell him I mentioned this. I'll talk to him though." That was that no one discussed it further.
Peyton enjoyed watching her father with Kaitlyn. She had been afraid she would be jealous because she had been his little girl for so long and although he was away a lot it had been just the two of them for a while now. He was very sweet and gentle with her and she could tell Kaitlyn adored him.
As usual, lately anyway, Nathan had spent the evening with Haley and Keith and probably Brooke and Tim also if they didn't have plans of their own. Usually Deb would already be asleep by the time he would come home but tonight she was still up and watching a movie when Nathan had come in. "Mom, what are you doing up this late," he asked her.
"Oh I just was watching this movie on TV and didn't want to miss the end," she answered. "How's Keith?"
"He's good," Nathan answered.
"You know I'd like to see more of him," she said, "especially now that you're seeing more of him."
"I'll see what I can do," he said.
"So how's Haley," she asked him forgetting about her movie.
"She's good, ma," he answered.
"That's good," she paused, "so you're both good, like together things are well?"
He laughed, "yes we are real good and happy," he answered with a smile.
"Good, I'm happy for you Nate, really I am," she said. "I know I didn't always like Haley but that was the pills, you know that right?"
"Yeah mom, I know," he answered.
"I liked her when you were dating but then when you got married and your father and I were a mess and I was on pills I was mean and resentful," she paused, "I'm sorry Nathan."
"I know mom," he said, "don't worry about it it's in the past."