Phillip and Diane still lived in the same house, which they raised their family in. They had not changed Max or Isabel's room. Everyday there they talked, joked and hoped about their children and their friends.

While Phillip was downstairs reading, Diane was in the kitchen, the phone rang

"Hello," answered Diane.

There was a moment of silence in the air.

"Hello!" she asked again.

Just as she began to hand up the telephone, she heard, "Mom?"

Diane dropped the telephone, being so surprised and yet cautious of hearing Max's voice on the other end of the line. After the initial shock, Diane scrambled to pick up the telephone, and held it up to her ear.

With a whisper, and a chill of fear running though her both at the same time, she spoke into the phone.

"Max?" she asked.

At the other end, Max had put his mom on speaker phone so that Isabel, Liz, Kyle and even Michael could hear. This had been the only contact in ten years to their home. All were excited, even Michael. At the sound of her mother's voice Isabel's eyes silently overflowed with tears in her eyes.

"Yeah it's me mom." Max told her.

"And me mom," Isabel added.

Diane was stunned. "My babies" she said into the phone.

"Phillip pick up the telephone. NOW! It's the kids."