"Don't worry, it will be all right."Don't worry, it will be all right. She'd never show it to anyone else." Brenda heard the doorbell ring in Taylor's house. "Uh oh, have to go now. Wish me luck." "Sure", Kelly heard Brenda say before hanging up. She stood up and walked downstairs. Mel and David were at the door welcomed by her mother, and as the girls had predicted, David couldn't look at Kelly's eyes for a second. Something about him touched Kelly and she promised not to be too harsh on him. After all, he'd already gone through quite a humiliation. Kelly wondered how he had survived to his home without clothes. "Hello, Kelly, you look marvelous", Mel said and gave her a hug with his normal, gentleman-like courtesy. Kelly asked herself how father and son could be so much unlike, found no answer and quit bothering herself with the thought. The delicious smell of her mother's cookings filled the air, but they'd have to wait for ten more minutes for the food to be ready. Jackie asked them to wait in the living room while she set the table. David and Mel sat on the same sofa, and Kelly took a position as far from them as possible without looking suspicious. "So, how was your day?" Mel asked, obviously trying to start conversation. "Well... you know, the usual", she answered. "Girl stuff." Something in her answer created a little smile on Mel's face, and Kelly felt an invisible rush run through her spine. David's eyes travelled on the furniture, ceiling and (mostly) floor, while Mel's intense but very mild-mannered stare made Kelly feel somehow awkward. Kelly felt the smell of spicy fish in her nose, and for a minute the situation was very surreal for her. Vision of Mel Silver and Jackie, gone sooner than it even appeared. Blue tulips. And his soothing smile. "Girl stuff?" Mel said, laughing a little. "I'm sorry, but girls have always been an unfathomed sea for me. |