When Eliana finished all she had to do for the day, she went to pick up the twins from kindergarten. She suddenly got a message from Nana.

The message read, “Eliana, you and the kids don’t have to stay up waiting for me tonight. I’ll be back home much later as I’m out on a date. Don’t miss me too much!”

She went on a date? Tonight? Who did she go out on the date with?

Could it be Corbin? When did they make up? So Nana had been pretending when she acted like she never wanted to talk to him again.

Eliana stood there, confused, with the phone still in her hand.

Aileen noticed that her mother now wore a confused expression, so she asked, “What’s the problem, Mommy?”

“Nothing. Nana sent a message to say she won’t be home early, tonight,” Eliana answered. Pulling herself from her thoughts about Nana’s date, she touched Aileen on the head.

“What happened?” Aileen considered for a while and came to a conclusion. “Mommy, is Nana in love?” she asked.

and Corbin, so at Aileen’s question, she smiled without giving a

she stops caring about us,” Adrian complained

why would you say that? Do you want Nana to play with us all the time and not get herself a boyfriend?

not what I meant. She can go ahead and have a boyfriend!”

the children would

you argue all the time,

The proud Adrian felt deeply embarrassed. He argued, “No. I’m a big boy. I don’t need

alright, I won’t say that anymore.” Eliana

dog after they had

noise so she jumped on Adrian and held on to

listened again, frowning. He looked down at the floor and tried to calm Aileen. “It’s nothing to worry about. There are no monsters anywhere in the

afraid, honey. The noise probably is from the neighbor downstairs, who is moving in. So we’ll be getting a new

loved to socialize shouted excitedly. She was always happy

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