Hey sorry it's short I've been busy with schoolwork. I'll write more this weekend. Thanks for the reviews keep em comin:)

Lucy walked to the church because it wasn't that far from Kevin's apartment and she wanted to see Glenoak. As she had predicted, Eric was in his office writing a sermon. She was about to go in, but lost her nerve and decided to go sit in the pews. She had her eyes closed and hands together and was praying, for anything good. She hadn't heard the footsteps behind her until they were right beside her and had went past her. Eric didn't know at the time it was his daughter and didn't want to disturb whoever was praying but had to get something from the stage. When he was walking back he noticed the face of the person sitting in the empty pew. Her hair color had changed, and she looked older, but it was unmistakably his second oldest daughter.

"Lucy!" Eric barely whispered, obviously at a loss for words. She opened her eyes and looked up at the familiar and welcoming smile her dad had. Not expecting to do such a thing she jumped up and jumped into his arms.

"I'm sorry." she stuttered. " I'm sorry for everything. How I acted, when I left, how I was being before I left." she buried her tear stained face in his shoulder, which had the familiar smell of his aftershave, and the rest of her words were too muffled to hear.

" It's ok honey we forgive you for everything. Forget it all what's important is that you came back." Eric looked at his daughter then up and thanked god.

Eric grabbed his laptop and they took off to the Camden house, which as Lucy had thought, was in the same place. Even though Eric asked more questions than Lucy could comprehend, she told him she would answer them when they were at home, so she wouldn't have to repeat everything for Annie.

Eric told Lucy to wait in the living and he walked into the kitchen where Annie was baking some of her famous chocolate chip cookies.

" What are you doing home so early? I thought you were working on your sermon at the church til five?" Annie interrogated Eric.

" I was going to. I just decided to come home and see my beautiful wife." Eric said.

Annie smiled but sensed something was up.

"I have a surprise for you. First you have to close your eyes." Eric said.

Annie smiled at her husband and wondered what kind of surprise he could have gotten her as she closed her eyes and brushed the flour off her hands.

Eric went into the living room and pulled Lucy into the kitchen.

"No peaking!" Eric told Annie as she laughed.

Lucy stood in front of Annie and then Eric told her to open her eyes.

Annie's eyes got huge as soon as she opened them. She blinked back tears as she swung her arms around her daughter.

" I'm so sorry mom for everything." Lucy whispered as she also choked back tears. Everything was all too good. The familiar kitchen hadn't changed a bit except for the new pictures on the fridge. It was filled with the smell of cooking as usual and Annie still had a smile that brightened up a room. She had a few more wrinkles but she hardly looked different.

Annie sat Lucy down at the table and began feeding her cookies and milk as she used to do with the kids when they were younger and had a problem. Lucy began telling her long story. Annie and Eric asked a lot of questions about the kids. Lucy promised to bring them over soon. Their conversation almost lasted an hour. By that time it was almost near supper time and Annie didn't feel like cooking, so they decided to order out. Lucy was going back to Kevin's to get the kids to bring them over for supper. Mary was also going to be coming over for supper with her husband. Simon, Ruthie, Sam and David were all still living at home ( Simon doesn't go away to college til next year). Lucy was driving back to the Camden's, using Kevin's SUV because he had decided to stay home that night and fix up his apartment, so he let Lucy use his vehicle. The kids were in the back seat, both a bit nervous to be meeting a lot of new people, they were their family who they had never even met.

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