Amy was nervous and Red knew it.

She had spent her entire Saturday in the kitchen while she tried to fix something that would impress the McCawley's and the Walker's.

Red had tried to get her to smile. "Amy, anything you do will impress them. The fact that you married me and make me happy is enough for them."

She stopped and looked at him for a moment. "But you were alone for such a long time after Betty died and here I come."

He took the spoon out of her hand and put it down on the stove. "Do you think they resent you?"

"It's crossed my mind." She admitted.

"Amy, if it weren't for you I would still be living in the Bachelors Officers Quarters and missing Betty like crazy. It's because of you that I'm happier than I've been since before she died and they are so grateful to you for being able to do that for me."

She looked at him and sighed. "They've always been so nice to me. I guess part of me will always feel like an outsider because you've all known each other for such a long time."

"That's true, we have known each other for a long time and we went through a lot together. But you're a part of all of that now and we'll make new memories."

Amy smiled at her husband. "That's why I love you so much. You can take what seems like such a big problem and cut it down to size. Thank you." And she kissed him on the cheek.

That got Red to smile back and shake his head. "I think you can do better than that Mrs. Winkle." And he leaned over and kissed her.

By the time Rafe, Evelyn, Danny and Sandra arrived at the Winkle home, Amy had calmed down considerably and Red welcomed them inside. While she took Evelyn and Sandra on an abbreviated tour of their small house, Red got a beer for his two fellow pilots.

"How's she holdin' up?" Danny asked Red.

"I think that once we get through this, she'll be fine. She just feels that she doesn't measure up to Betty with the girls sometimes and that worries her."

"Well I know that Evelyn thinks the world of her." Rafe told him. "Amy was real good to her after I got shot down and she's never forgotten that."

Danny added. "Sandra thinks she's a peach and the fact that she makes you happy makes her all right in our book too."

"Thanks." Red smiled.

Danny frowned. "Does it bother her when we talk about Betty?"

Red shook his head. "It never has. The one thing that she made very plain to me from the start was that if I felt that I needed to talk about her, to do it. I think that was one of the big reasons that I never saw the girls I dated before I met Amy, more than once. They would get really uncomfortable when I would bring up her name and make me feel like a heel."

Rafe grinned at him. "You really did find the right girl then."

"And it only took me ten years to do it." He laughed.

Amy brought the girls back into the living room and tucked her arm through Red's. "Honey, why didn't you offer them a seat? I'm sure you'd all be more comfortable sitting down."

He looked at his bride and kissed her cheek. "Where are my manners? Why don't all of you have a seat while I give Amy a hand."

She shook her head. "That's not what I meant, but since you offered to help I'll take you up on it." She smiled at the foursome. "Dinner is almost ready so please make yourselves comfortable." And she headed to the kitchen.

"Would you girls like anything to drink?" Red offered.

"I'll take a bourbon and soda." Evelyn requested.

"A bourbon and soda for me would be fine too." Sandra told him.

"Coming up." Red said and followed his wife into the kitchen.

When he walked in, Amy had put the roast on top of the stove before she pushed a loose lock of hair off of her forehead. "If you would carve that for me, I can put the rest of the meal on." She requested.

"If I do this for you, would you make drinks for the girls?" He asked.

Amy smiled at him. "Fair enough. What did they want?"

"Two bourbon and sodas."

"All right." And as she pulled two glasses out of the cabinet, Evelyn and Sandra walked into the kitchen.

Evelyn smiled at Amy. "Is there anything we can do to help?"

"Everything is just about ready to go." Amy told her.

"We do understand if you're nervous about our being here. The first dinner party that Rafe and I hosted, I was a nervous wreck and I worried that our friends would think I wasn't taking good care of him."

Sandra laughed. "Never mind that you were going to have a baby." She looked at Amy. "It was the same way with Danny and I. We only had Ev and Rafe there, but with Rafe being Danny's best friend it worried me that he would think I wasn't feeding him."

"You're part of the club now." Red smiled.

Amy smiled as she finished the drinks and handed them to Evelyn and Sandra. "Thank you."

"Being a newlywed was hard enough, but with this bunch it was a little harder." Evelyn joked. "You're lucky because it's just the four of us and we're harmless."

"Are you sure there isn't anything we can do?" Sandra asked.

Red looked at her. "You can get your husbands to the table and we'll be out in a jiffy."

"We'll do that." Sandra answered as she and Evelyn took their drinks and left the kitchen.

"The roast is ready, are you?" He asked her.

Amy nodded. "If you would take that out to the table and come back for the salad, I'll get the potatoes."

"Will do." Red smiled and kissed her cheek before he headed out to the kitchen.

Amy dished the potatoes into a bowl as Red came back, got the salad out of the icebox and left again. She took off her apron before she picked the potatoes and headed to the dining room.

They were in the kitchen later that evening as Red helped her finish the last of the dishes. "For our first dinner party, I think we did a pretty good job." Red commented.

"Your friends really are very nice."

"They're your friends too Amy and they like you a lot."

She nodded. "I like them too and it's going to take a little time to think of them as my friends. But it's like you said earlier, I'm a part of this now and we'll make new memories. I think we started doing that tonight."

"I'm glad to hear that honey."

"I do wonder about something though." She looked at him and smiled.

"What's that?"

"This is the first time in the two months that we've been married that we've had them over. I wonder if we should have told them that we're going to have a baby."