"Uncle Richard, what are you doing here?" Joan asked. Richard's face turned somber and he said, "When I heard about your father on the news, I just got so worried about him. I had to come and see how he was doing."
Helen caught up with the two of them. "Richard, it's…been a while. I guess you heard about Will." "Yeah," he said. "They didn't say much about it on TV. How is he?" Helen said, "He's still asleep. No one knows how long it'll be." Richard shook his head. "Why did this have to happen? I always hoped we could patch things up some day and now we might never get the chance."
Richard suddenly stopped ruminating, and looked straight at Helen. "I'm going to visit him," he said. "I'm going to make this trip mean something, no matter how small." Helen hesitated before saying, "Are you sure that's a good idea? Will hasn't been thinking too well of you since he was a kid, after all." Richard turned and said, "Joan, what do you think?"
Joan said, "I don't really know, I haven't been around for much of the conflict between you two. But from what I saw it might not be such a good idea."
Richard looked disappointed but said, "Okay, if you don't think I should, I won't. I guess I'll just go home, then." He started off down the street, but then Joan thought back on what God had said. And then she realized, it wasn't her that the lesson was meant for. "Wait!" she yelled, and ran over to her uncle. "If it can help in any way, you should do it. I'd really like for you to really be able to be my uncle, and if this can help you do it, go ahead."
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Nearby, Grace and Adam met each other. "So how are things going with you?" Adam said. "Not good," Grace replied. "Luke and I are pretty much done, as far as I can tell. And I'm pretty pissed off at you, actually. He can't handle that I needed some time to decide whether to tell Joan about your little extra-curricular activities."
Adam responded with, "Look, I'm so sorry about all this. The whole thing has just gotten way out of control. I never wanted any of this to happen." "Then why'd you do it, Rove? Was it just because she wouldn't put out?" Adam was momentarily dumbstruck. Finally he answered, getting more upset and confrontational than Grace had ever seen before, "Actually, no. There was the constant suspicions she had about me, and the way she always seemed to have this big secret that she wouldn't let me in on, and the constant clinginess. The whole thing was gong to go down in flames eventually, I could tell. Why not help it along?"
Grace said to this, "I guess if that's the way you feel, that's fine for you. But it isn't for me." "Fine," Adam said. "And by the way, Ryan has been nothing but helpful to me, and those suspicions I was talking about haven't stopped at all. She was trying to convince me to cut ties with him all summer. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some ideas to work on." Once again, against her instincts Grace let the topic go. She could only hope that Adam would come around, just like with Luke.