Nina was still smiling from Susan's kind words when Steph came over to her. Something about her old friend looked odd and Nina wanted to know what she had missed.

"Hi Steph," said Nina.

"Hey! How are you?" asked Steph, giving Nina a hug. In truth, Steph saw Nina as a younger sister, and had been ever since Michelle had left for New York to live with Flick.

"I'm good. How are you?"

"Great! I've missed you."

"I've missed you too... Are you pregnant?"

"I am. But only my mum knows right now, so please don't tell anyone. Especially Jack."

"Okay. I'm good at keeping secrets," smiled Nina. "Congratulations. If you don't mind me asking, who's the dad?"

"Max," whispered Steph. "He knows too."

Nina grinned. Like Summer, she had always seen that Max and Steph were good together. "So how have you guys been?"

"Good. Oscar misses you. He keeps asking for Ina."

"Ina?"

"He means you, he just can't say your name yet."

"Oh. That's so cute. Can I play with him? I mean, I know your mum doesn't like me much anymore."

"She got over it. Jack made it clear that moving to LA was his idea and not yours. She missed you too, trust me. And of course you can play with him. Come on, I'll take you to him."

Nina followed Steph over to where Lyn was standing with Oscar. She smiled shyly when Lyn looked her way, but her attention was immediately drawn to the beaming little boy that had looked up when his sister approached again.

"INA!" Oscar scrambled up from the grass and ran over to her, his little arms circling around her legs in a cute hug.

Nina bent down to give Oscar a proper hug. "Hey little guy. How are you?"

"Ina, look." Oscar pointed to a card that was in Lyn's hand. "You."

"For me?" Nina asked as she took the card from Lyn. It was obviously made by the little boy. "Thank you Oscar."

"He made it this morning, as soon as he found out that you and big brother Jack were coming home," said Lyn.

"It's wonderful, I'm going to keep it forever. How are you Mrs Scully?"

"Call me Lyn. And I'm good. A little tired, but good. How are you Nina?"

"I've been better, usually when I'm with Jack."

"Yeah... Look, I'm sorry about treating you so horribly. I know you were just trying to help Jack, and I appreciate it. I shouldn't have been so rude, especially since you hadn't done anything wrong."

"Don't worry about it. I just hope we can move on from it?"

"Yes, of course we can. Happy birthday."

"Thank you. So, tell me, did Lou go around telling everyone that I was coming?"

"Oh, well, you know how it works. Lou told Harold, who told Susan and Karl, who then told me and almost the entire street. Everyone misses you."

Nina laughed. "I miss everyone here too."

"You must be enjoying America though."

"Yeah, not as much as I thought I would actually. I can't get comfortable enough to call it home yet."

"You will. Flick told me it takes a little while, but you get used to it. She misses Vegemite, and us of course, but that's about it."

"Yeah, they really should get Vegemite over there already." Nina grinned. "But I do love coming home."

"And we love you coming home Nina," said Lyn with a genuine smile.

Ten minutes later, everyone was sitting down for lunch. The residents of Ramsay Street had brought out tables and chairs for everyone to sit at, though it seemed as though there wouldn't be enough room anyway. Everybody wanted to sit next to Nina, except the ones that didn't know her or were too shy to talk to her. But there was only one person she wanted to sit with- Jack. She was glad that he came up to her quickly and took a seat.

"Are you doing okay?" asked Jack.

"Yeah. Look what your baby brother made me." Nina handed over the card from Oscar. "And apparently my new name is Ina."

Jack laughed. "Of course it is. This is so cute."

"I know. Remind me to put it on display when we go back. I want Michelle and Flick to see it when they visit."

"Sure. Although, it might make them jealous."

"Of what?"

"Oscar is their brother but doesn't make them cards."

"He doesn't know them. Apart from occasional visits, he was born after they moved to New York."

"Good point. Oh well, maybe he'll meet them one day."

"We should invite your mum and brother to LA soon, as well as Michelle and Flick. Then they can see each other in person and meet Oscar."

"That sounds like a lovely idea. I don't know about Michelle, but Flick will love to meet him. We should bring Steph too."

"I don't know about that. She's pretty busy at the moment." She didn't want to break her friend's confidence.

"She'll come anyway."

"Maybe you should ask her first Jack."

Jack looked at Nina. Her face suggested she wasn't playing. "Fine. I'll ask her first."

"Good. We don't want to force anyone to do what they don't want to do. It's not fair." She rested against him. "It's really unfair."

"I know it is. You're right. I'll talk to her tomorrow, okay?"

"Okay."