"Oh. Well. I don't want to tear you up!" He replied a little sheepishly. So much for that idea! "If that's good enough for you then it's good enough for me too! I'm happy to hear that you're happy. That's all I really want. I hope... I hope that you know that."

Because times ahead were bound to be more than a little confusing. So, hopefully, she could just remember that much. Hold on to it until everything had been figured out and sorted through and he'd caught up and made up for the year he'd been missing.

His lemonade and the baskets of brad arrived, and he was quick about picking up his glass and a piece of bread.