This exchange took a few minutes, and Laura and Ted returned soon. Judith turned to her younger daughter.

"When did you meet.. Edward?"

"Meet? About two weeks after I joined Pan Am. Come into a relationship with.. that's kind of hard to tell."

"I see. Are you going to attend your sister's wedding?"

"Of course! But Kate hasn't set a date yet, right?"

"No, it's just going to happen sometime in the fall," reassured Kate. "I'll send you both invitations the second we know."

"One moment, everyone." Judith dashed towards the phone, dialing Irene's number (Irene is someone from the DAR she doesn't particularly like).

"What was that about?" asked Ted, puzzled.

"I think she wants to call Irene," replied Kate.

"Ah." Laura nodded.

"Who's Irene?" The explanation didn't clear anything up for Ted.

"Someone she doesn't like," answered Laura.

"Makes sense." Ted thought for a moment. "Wait, why is she calling her, though?"

"Probably to brag about me and Roger's fall London wedding."

"Mhmm."

The rest of the day passed fairly uneventfully. Kate and Roger slept in Kate's old room, and Laura and Ted in Laura's old room. The meeting of Joseph and his daughter's beaus happened the next morning.

Joseph opened Kate's door. "Kate, it's lovely to see you home-" he saw Kate and Roger sharing the bed. "I'll, uh, leave now." He cleared his throat and started to shut the door.

"Daddy, wait! It's okay, I have clothes on!" Kate jumped out of bed, and pointed at her nightgown. "The fiancée is clothed too, thank you very much."

"Thank goodness you're clothed," replied . "Wait, fiancée?"

She signaled Roger to get up, also. He stood up in his pajamas, and walking towards Kate's father, stopping a few feet away from him, and said, "Good morning, . It's a pleasure to meet you."

"The pleasure is mine," replied curiously. He stuck out his hand. "Please, call me Joseph."

Roger grasped Joseph's hand and shook it firmly. "Roger. Roger Anderson."

Joseph patted Roger on the back. "Good luck with this one," he laughed.

"Daddy!"

"You know it's me, Katie dear." Joesph's eye sparkled.

As they were gathered around the table, eating breakfast, Joseph fired questions off at Roger, and later Ted.

"Where do you live?"

"I was born and raised in London."

"What do you do for a living, Roger?"

"I work as a chief journalist for the London Post."

And finally, "Again, Roger, good luck with this one," he said, gesturing at Kate. "When she was ten, she picked fights with older boys- and she won!" He laughed some more. "I'd never thought Katie was ever going to settle down. She was very much a tease in-"

"I think that's enough, Daddy," interjected Kate. "And don't forget about Laura and her guy." Ted gave her a dirty look. Kate just winked back at him.

"Oh yes, my little girl. Yellow Rose of Bristol." Joseph smiled, turning his focus towards Laura. "How is being a stewardess, Laura?"

"It's wonderful, Daddy! You get to travel around the world, taste new foods, meet new people.. You should come with us sometime!"

"Maybe one of these days, sweetheart. Now how's this boy of yours?"

"His name is Ted, and he's our co-pilot. He's absolutely wonderful. You know how I accidentally sold Dan's ring?"

"You what?" Judith almost dropped her fork onto the dining room floor.

"Well, Ted gave up his Rolex to give it back."

"That was very good of you Ted. I like it when a man respects my daughter- or daughters," he said, nodding at Roger and Kate. "Or else they have to answer to me." Joseph got up and reached out his arm.

Ted reluctantly rose out of his chair to shake hands with Joseph.

"You two engaged?" Kate and Laura's dad asked the dreaded question. Womanizing, arrogant, hardheaded Ted, and kind, but naïve, Laura had never officially called each other boyfriend or girlfriend, and they had only recently gotten back together again- if what happened a few months ago counted as breaking up.

"No, Daddy," replied Laura nervously.

"What? Well, you must've only gotten together recently, then."

"It's.. it's complicated, Daddy."

"Surely Kate and Roger have been together longer than you two have."

Kate and Roger gave each other side glances.

"Are you planning to be engaged?" Joseph looked expectantly at his youngest daughter and her boyfriend. They both stayed silent. "I'd never thought I'd say this Laurie, but your relationship seems a bit more scandalous than Katie's at the moment."

To change the topic (which she brought up, to change the topic), Kate coughed and told her father that "Roger and I are getting married this coming fall, Daddy."

Momentarily distracted, Joseph looked at his oldest daughter. "Oh, you are?" Kate nodded. "Where is it going to be? Because your wedding invitations will shock the pants off of your past boyfriends, and basically everyone else in Bristol who knows you, Katie."

"Daddy!" Whispering to Roger, she said, "He's exaggerating."

"We all know I'm not, Katherine Beatrice Cameron."

Sighing, Kate told her father that the wedding would be in London.

"That's a bit expensive," he remarked.

"Only the best for the Camerons, right?" joked Kate. "Besides, Daddy, Pan Am will give you and mother a discount."

"I never heard a word about discounts," accused Joseph.

"It's because you never asked," answered Kate cheekily.

"Wait a moment, I thought you said it would be free, Katherine?" Judith, still stunned from her younger daughter's scandalous behavior, asked confusedly.

"Erm, it's free to change classes once you're on the plane. The tickets still cost money, mother."

[I hope you've noticed by now that Joseph is a much more laid back parent. He is also Kate and Laura's confidante, along with being their best friend. He always favored Kate a little bit more, though, because besides being the firstborn, Kate has a more fiery spirit, which she may have inherited from her father.]

"Katherine, you could tell me that you were pregnant now, and I don't think I would be surprised anymore," sighed Judith.

The stay went by fabulously. Judith learned to accept Ted a little bit. Joseph had some man to man time with the boys (he found that behind Roger's exterior, there was a lot of fire- just like Kate, and also enjoyed Ted's slightly raunchy sense of humor). Laura and Kate met with old friends. The stay, which at times seemed like a bad idea, was finally over.

Everyone has a birthday, but you've never seen one like Kate and Roger's. Stay tuned for- "The Anderson-Cameron Birthday Parties".