Beth stood in front of her mirror examining her outfit. She wore a pair of snug dark tan corduroy pants and a chocolate brown sweater. She didn't want to grab Kevin's attention too much, but she wouldn't mind it if she did.

She looked up at a clock that hung on her dark blue wall. She had less the ten minutes to get there. She walked over to her closet to find her nice pair of brown shoes. She found a cute blue and white striped scarf that Kevin had bought her for Christmas on the first year they dated. She wrapped it around her small neck and a rush of sweet memories hit her very quickly.

Maybe someday those memories would be replaced with new ones. She could only hope. Beth put on her coat and walked out of her apartment. She drove back to the Giaradi home.

Once again Beth found herself on their front porch poking at the doorbell. This time Joan, Kevin's little sister, answered the door. Her face lit up in a wide smile upon seeing Beth.

"Beth is here! she invited. "Hey, come on in."

Once the door was shut behind Beth, the two of them embraced each other. Joan could always talk to Beth when she needed to get some things off her mind. They practically sisters. After Kevin's accident, he forced them apart.

"How's Adam?" Beth asked after they pulled apart.

Bright red coloring flared on Joan's cold cheeks as rocked on her heels. "Absolutely wonderful!"

"Dinner is ready!" Will yelled from the dining room.

After putting her coat on a rack, Beth and Joan walked into the dining room. Will, the father, sat at the head of the table. Luke, the youngest, sat to the left of him. After placing a bowl of peas on the table Helen sat at the end of the table staring at Will. Joan and Beth sat down next to each other.

Beth looked over to the right of Luke, Kevin's seat was vacant. She tried to pretend she did not realize his absence. Sensing her realization Helen spoke up and said;

"He called and told us he would be a few minutes late."

Beth nodded her head. Plates of warm food were being passed around the dark oak table. Beth grabbed the spaghetti bowl and dug her fork in the angel hair noodles and poured them on her plate. Next was the dark red sauce, she smothered her clean noodles with it. Then she placed some fresh green salad into a bowl.

Just then the front door swung open and in rolled Kevin. He rolled down his ramp and into the dining room. He grabbed the wheels of his chair immediately at the sight of Beth.

"What are you doing here?"

"I invited her over for dinner, come on your spaghetti is getting cold." Helen explained.

Kevin shrugged and wheeled himself to his place at the table. He made himself a large portion of spaghetti and fixed himself a salad.

The two of them didn't realize it but they would both secretly glance up at each other. The whole room leaked with an eerie silence. One time while glancing at Beth, Kevin recognized the scarf around her neck.

"Didn't I buy you that?" he asked rasing his glass of water to his lips.

"You sure did! You bought it for our first Christmas together." Beth answered as she twirled her fork around her noodles.

"Aww...we have such a sweet big brother don't we Luke?" Joan said purposely trying to embarrass Kevin.

Luke and her were beaming up until they looked at Helen, which they were given a sour look. They both of giggled as they look down on their plates.

"I have to review the movie In A Small View for work," Kevin spoke up and cleared his throat. "and I wanted to know if you would like to come with me to see it tonight?"

Beth could sense the insecurity in his voice. Before the accident Kevin was nothing short of confident. He was not nervous about asking her out when he did back in high school. Now being brought down to a chair caused him to be insecure.

"That would be wonderful!" Beth exclaimed.

Kevin lightly smiled. He scraped up the last piece of noodles and sauce onto his fork and shoved it in his mouth. After he took his plate onto his lap he reached for Beth's empty plate as well. He wheeled himself into the kitchen and after putting them in the sink, he couldn't believe the excitement that hit him.

He was overwhelmed in such joy and feeling like he accomplished something. But then he felt rather foolish, he had not asked her out to be his girlfriend just asked her out on date. Was it in even a date? These thoughts wrestled in his mind when suddenly he felt some one grabbed his shoulder which caused him to jump. He looked over his shoulder to see Luke with a smirk on his face.

"Someone got a little date and is a little excited!" he snickered.

Kevin slugged him in the stomach and wheeled himself backwards to the dining room where everyone was in discussion. He rolled behind Beth's seat.

"When would you like to go?"

"Do you want to go right now?" she asked swing her body and looked at him.

"Only if you want too."

"Okay...lets go right now then!" she said standing up. "Thank very much for having me over for dinner, Mrs. Giaradi! Nice to see you Mr. Giaradi! Joan, please be good!"

The whole family nodded and smiled as Kevin put on Beth's coat for her. The two of them strolled out of the house with wide smiles on their faces.

"We better take my car since it accommodates my needs." Kevin said as he rode on a lever that allowed him to come off the porch and to the ground smoothly.

Once his wheelchair softly hit the ground he went to the driver's side of his station wagon and adjusted himself to drive. Beth hopped into the passenger seat and off the two went.