A/N: I'm having a very hard time writing this right now. There are some 'SIC' spoilers out there that are making me sick. The show is doing very little to inspire me lately. Anyway this is crap, I think I'll go to Maui for a couple of weeks.

"$12.00 for a couple of waters and a small bag of KettleCorn? You've got to be kidding."

"Hey, take it or leave it, no skin off my nose."

"I'll have you know my mother is the DA. She can have you investigated for price gauging." I threaten.

He laughs. "That would make your mother Alexis Davis?"

"Yes." I answer defiantly.

"And would she be with you today?"

"Yes."

"Then little miss, I suggest you get the big bag." He hands me a two foot long clear bag of KettleCorn. "If you want any that is." I stare blankly. "Alexis Davis is my single best customer…go back to her empty handed, and I won't be responsible. Now that'll be $17.50."

I shove the 20 in his hand and glare. He slowly counts out my two dollars and fifty cents in change.

"Tell your Mama Joe says hi." He winks.

I juggle the 3 waters and popcorn while trying to stick my change in my pocket. I'm on the footbridge when I'm hit hard from behind.

"Hey, watch it." I yell before bending down to pick up my waters.

"Oh, sorry." I turn to see a red faced Michael. "I didn't see you there." He grabs one Dasani before it rolls off the bridge.

"It's okay, where are you going so fast?"

"We're playing hide and seek and Morgan's it." Michael explains. "Want me to take the waters over to your mom?"

"That would be great. Can you risk the detour?"

"Heck yeah, Morgan is really bad at being it." Michael laughs "I could be three feet away singing the national anthem and he wouldn't find me."

"Michael…" I say in my annoying adult voice.

"I know, I know. I let him find me sometimes. Anyway, Kristina's not much better, he'll probably find her. Thanks for inviting us by the way. I really miss Kristina."

"I know, she misses you too." The three of them had been having the time of their lives today, playing on the swings, climbing trees. Alexis had to close her eyes repeatedly to avoid seeming overprotective of Kristina in front of the boys. Finally Leticia had taken the three of them off to feed the ducks, giving Alexis a much needed reprieve from all the chaos.

"Since Dad's sick we haven't gone to see him much…And I don't think your Mom likes me very much."

I laugh "It's not you Michael, but I know how you feel, sometimes I don't think she likes me much either."

"She does." Michael states confidently.

"Oh, are you an Alexis expert?"

"No, but I see her giving you The Look."

"The Look?"

"Yeah, I see Mom giving it to Morgan sometimes."

"She doesn't give it to you?"

"I don't know, she probably does, but it's not the kind of look a mom gives a kid if the kid is looking at her, ya know?" Michael turns his head. "I'm going to go. I'll drop these with Alexis." Michael dashes away, just seconds before Morgan appears.

"Hey buddy, how is it going?"

"Have you seen Michael?" He puffs.

"You aren't playing hide and seek are you?"

"Yes we are." He answers innocently.

"Then I can't tell you. You know Morgan, you look like a boy who could use some KettleCorn."

"Thanks!" I open the bag and he eagerly grabs a handful. "Sam?" He asks through his mouthful of popcorn. "Are you my sister now?"

"No, Morgan…I'm not."

"But you are Krissy's sister? And Krissy is my sister too." He reasons.

"Yeah, but that's because you, Michael and Krissy all have the same Dad, Krissy, Molly and I have the same Mom."

Morgan wrinkles his nose, carefully digesting this news…"Can I have more KettleCorn?"

I scoop him up and give him a quick kiss. "Not yet, this is for my mom…I'm not sure she's willing to share. Let's go ask."

"'kay." I carry the four year only in one arm and the bag in the other. Minutes later we round the neatly trimmed hedge to see Alexis and Michael talking.

"What did Uncle Jason want? Why did he go?" Michael questions, while Alexis' back is to me.

"He, uh, was just saying hi…I think he had a meeting."

"It sorta sounded like you were fighting." Michael leans over sees me with his brother. "Ah, man."

Morgan has shimmied out of my arms and is running for Michael. "You're it, you're it."

The boys take off again, and Alexis turns slowly. "Sam."

"Jason was here?"

"For a minute…"

"Is he okay? Why didn't he stay? Did you tell him I would be back?"

"He's fine, I'm not sure, you never came up." She replies succinctly.

"Don't lie to me. Don't." I feel blood rushing to my face.

"We were discussing other things, Sam."

"He killed Manny, didn't he?"

"You know that was Lucky." She answers slowly.

"I don't KNOW anything. Dammit Alexis!" I try to say something, anything more, but I can't find the words. I look into my mother's eyes. "I miss him. Do you understand that?"

"I do Sam." She lifts Molly from her stroller, kisses her absently.

"Here." I hand her the bag. "I've got to go."

"Sam?" She calls after me…"You're coming home right?"

Without turning back I sigh, "Yes…later. I need to think."