2005
"Let's go inside!" David suggested. Soon, they were inside. "I've had this place since before you were born"
"Did my mother see it?" Charlie asked tenatively.
"Yeah...she did..." David didn't want to mention that it was where they had most, if not all of their trysts.
"Oh..."
"Sorry if it's a mess. I didn't..know.." David apologized as Charlie saw the mess.
"You should see my office" the professor chuckled. "Don't worry about it."
David cleared a bunch of books from a couple of chairs, and they sat down.
"I uh...found a drawing you did of my brother, in the garage" Charlie said awkwardly, as he looked around.
"Really?" David was surprised. He had figured that Margaret would have gotten rid of it.
"Yeah. She must have lost it somehow."
"So...uh...tell me about my brother...I mean other brotherand sister" Charlie requested.
"Dawn is a doctor, and Marc is a free lance writer."
"How old are they?"
"Dawn is twenty five, and Marc is twenty."
"So, I'm a big brother?" Charlie couldn't imagine himself in that role, having been the youngestof Margaret's children.
"Yep.
2004
"Damn it Charlie!" Don said. "What kind of person works on equations while their mother is sick?"
Charlie continued his work.
At that moment, Don got a call on his cell.
"Eppes?"
"Where are you? Is Charlie okay?" Margaret's worried voice came on the line.
"Why don't you ask him? Hold on" Don hoped that maybe hearingtheir mother's voice would get Charlie to snap out of it.So, he told his brother. "Mom wants to talk to you!"
TBC