It was a windy, rainy Friday night as Lucy who came home from seeing her still comatose husband was watching TV with Ruthie and their three brothers were upstairs in their rooms.

"Where is mommy?" Sam whined asking his big brother who was in his room doing his homework as the twins were standing near him.

"I'm sure mommy and daddy are fine. I'm sure they are having fun, they will come home and it may be awhile cause it is raining." He replied as he erased a math problem he did wrong.

His brothers then went in their room to play then finally about an hour later they heard two car doors slam then minutes later the front door opened and they ran downstairs to see Annie walk in.

"Mommy you're home!! We missed you!!" Her twin boys welcomed her home as did Simon, Ruthie and Lucy. Sam went to the front door as everyone went to the kitchen then he joined them.

"So where's dad?" Lucy asked as her twin brothers were on Annie's lap, Simon and Ruthie across from their mom.

"He should be inside. He just had to get our luggage but I wonder what's taking him so long."

"Who cares mommy. We want to know what you did?"

"Hey. That's not nice! I'm going to put you both to bed if you act like that, do you understand?" Their mom says in a stern voice as the door is heard opened and closed.

"Daddy!! Daddy!! I'm so glad you are home!! I love you so much!!" Lucy saw her dad was home and hugged him as he was walking in the kitchen.

"Hey, I didn't realize you missed me that much Lucy."

"Say mom, we'll take Sam and David to bed for you." The youngest daughter responded.

"No. We want mom to put us to bed." The twins protested.

"It's okay. I'll put them to bed."

"Okay." The youngest daughter responded.

Hours later—

Everyone was asleep but Eric and Annie as they laid on their bed thinking while Lucy was sleeping with Ruthie in her room since she felt lonely. It was dark as the rain had already gone away, the moonlight shown through the window as Eric was under the covers on his side with his back to Annie and she is on her side with her back towards Eric.

I can't believe Kevin was shot, it will crush Lucy if he dies, I'm so scared for her and Kevin's family. They are staying at a hotel and will just wait and see what happens to him. I'm so mad at Eric and the service at the resort we went to. I wish Eric had just said forget it and we could have gone somewhere else. I really, really wanted to spend time with him alone, since Wednesday we had been fighting. Eric should have taken me somewhere else instead of staying there. Why did he want to stay? It was horrible. I can't believe that Eric is already asleep, what is wrong with him? Annie thought to herself.

Unknowing to Annie, Eric was not asleep, he was awake thinking about his son in law and his daughter.

I had heard about the resort we went to and people raved about it being great which it wasn't. Unless you consider cold food that is supposed to be hot to be okay or plumbing that needs to be fixed to the point that it stinks when toilets are not flushed. I don't know why we stayed there, we shouldn't have but Annie seemed to have a good time for some reason. I just wish she would have said something, it drove me crazy that whole time and I wish they could have fixed everything within the next day of us arriving but the overbooking was really out of control. Couldn't cuddle in my wife's arms for that week or make love cause we had a couple sleeping in a bed in another room when we were supposed to have that condo type place to ourselves. I was really stunned as to what happened with Kevin but it made sense as to why Lucy raced to hug me and welcome me home since they twins didn't do that at all, that hurts. I hope Kevin will be okay and I think I can help Lucy get through it if he dies. He thinks to himself.

The next morning Annie wakes up to see that Eric was not in bed, assuming he was downstairs she goes to see if he was there but he was gone and she was not happy. During lunch time Annie was in her room unpacking, Simon walked in.

"Hey mom." He sat down on her side of the bed since she was unpacking from that side.

"Hey. What are you up to?" She asked as she took her shirts and put them in the hamper which was in the bathroom.

"Last Sunday I got hit by a pitch and will be out for another five weeks and the twins were caught hitting a girl then ran away from school grounds on Wednesday."

"OH NO!! I don't believe this!!" Annie screamed then her husband ran in the room so fast he ran into the side of the wall.

They look at him when they hear a thud then look at each other.

"But mom, it's okay. My ribs are healing and Hank talked to the twins about hitting people and running away."

"What is it? Who hit who and ran away? Who hurt their ribs?" He asked as he looked at his wife and son.

"You know what this is your fault!!" She points as she yells at him then continues unpacking and Simon leaves the room thinking it wasn't such a good idea but stood just outside the door to watch his parents since he noticed they didn't seem to happy with each other.

"My fault? Why?"

"It just is." She left the room after unpacking, leaving Eric all by himself, stunned.