Emma looked up from the embrace. Manny stood in the door way, looking utterly shocked.

"Sean…What are you doing?" Manny said through gritted teeth.

Sean looked up, and immediately jumped up, and away from Emma.

"I-I-I…I was just comforting a friend Manny!"

Emma looked at him with hurt eyes, tears were still streaming from her face. Tyler ran into the room.

"Mommy!"

Tyler ran to his mother, and hugged her waist. Manny looked down.

"Ty, could you please go outside and play? Just remember no jumping in the pool, unless you have your swimsuit on."

"okay mom."

Tyler walked outside, and began riding his bike.

"Goodbye Emma!" Manny yelled.

Emma rushed from the house, looking like she wanted to die. Sean looked hurt as he saw Emma go.

"How could you do that! Just let somebody in the house, and then hug them while I'm gone?"

Manny began to pace the room. She was furious.

"I'm sorry Manny, it's just that she was having a bad day, and I was comforting her-"

"Bull! Like you had ever been friends with Emma. You were her boyfriend in 10th grade! How can you just say that you were comforting a friend? Plus how do I know you weren't doing something worse, while I was away?"

"But I-"

"No! I'm not taking this Sean! Tonight you sleep outside! Give me your house keys!"

Sean dug into his pocket, and took out a set of keys. He handed them to Manny, and then turned his back on her.

Manny took the keys from his hand, and went upstairs. She locked the keys in a box in the office. She then sat down at the desk strewn with papers, and began to organize it. When she was done she took a brief case out from a black viper convertible, that sat in a garage next to a 75 red corvette convertible.

Sean sat outside on the loveseat, staring into space. He heard a crash and snapped out of his thoughts. He looked up to see Tyler laying on the concrete, his head, barley missing the concrete, lay on the grass. He was out cold, with a bike on top of him. Sean immediately ran towards him, and lifted the bike from on top of Tyler's legs.

Sean picked Tyler up off the ground, and ran inside. He laid Tyler on the couch in the family room while he dialed 911.

10 minutes later an ambulance Parked in front of the house, and Sean carried Tyler outside, and placed him on the stretcher. He jumped in the ambulance, just as his wife came running out. Manny watched the ambulance rush away, and then sat down on the steps. She had no idea what happened, or who got hurt, she just knew that Sean was gone.

She went out back to find Tyler gone too, and his bike propped up on its kick stand. She muffled a gasp, with her hand, knowing that Tyler never put his bike up on its kick stand, and knew that Tyler was hurt.

Manny jumped in her convertible, and rushed to the hospital. When she arrived they told her Tyler was in room 407. She ran as fast as she could to room 407, to find Sean sitting next to the bed, where Tyler was out cold, his head in his hands. Manny rarely saw Sean do this, and knew something big was bothering him. She looked Tyler over. His head had an icepack under it, and his left arm was in a cast. A wheel chair lay beside his bed, and she noticed that his right foot had been propped up on a couple of pillows, and put into an ace bandage. She sat down in a chair nearby, and began to cry. She knew that it was her fault, because she had sent him outside, while she yelled at her husband.

10 minutes later, Manny got up and left the hospital. She drove to Craig's house, and knocked on the door.

Craig opened the door holding a baby that looked like it was only 3 months old in his arms. It was wrapped in a blue blanket, and sucking on a plastic ring.

"Hey Manny. What's up with you, you look horrible."

"Hi, do you think I could stay here tonight?"

"Yeah sure, Ellie wouldn't mind."

"Thanks."

Craig led Manny inside, and went upstairs into a sky blue room, with a light purple trim. He placed the baby in a play pen, and then led Manny into the family room downstairs. He turned on a baby monitor, and then went into the kitchen. Manny could make out a conversation in the other room.

"Hey babe, Manny came by, and wants to spend the night, is that okay with you? She can sleep in the guest room, down here."

She could make out Ellie's voice. "Alright Craig, oh, did you remember to repair Ash's bike? She needs it for a bike ride at school."

"Yeah, I did. Chris is upstairs in the playpen, should I bring the play pen down stairs?"

"No, he'll be fine, but I think it's time for his nap, and a diaper change, oh plus can you feed him this before you put him to sleep?"

"Yeah."

Craig re-entered the family room, and told Manny he'd be right back. He went up stairs and did as Ellie had told him.

Ellie came into the family room, and smiled at Manny. Ellie looked a lot like she had in high school, just a little older. She still wore her arm warmers, but she wore pants from Hottopic, instead of a skirt, and fishnet stockings.