CHAPTER 27-HEATH

They were ready on time and Heath almost had them out the door when Ivy disappeared quickly to the bathroom and the doorbell rang. “I’ll get the door, Geoff. You can sit and relax.” Heath instructed his son as he strode to the apartment’s front door.

“That’s Kathy. I bet mom didn’t call to tell her she doesn’t need to take me to school,” Geoff said from his seat on the sofa.

“Well, it’s time we met. After all, she’s your mom’s friend. Thanks for the warning.” He said before he opened the door. A woman who looked like a cross of punk rock princess and a nineteen fifties housewife stood there about to knock on the door. Her eyes went wide when she took in Heath’s sturdy form before her. She said nothing as her mouth made the same of an ‘O’. “You must be Kathy. Come in.”

“Uh, who are you, and where are Ivy and Geoff?” She stood there in a green overall dress with a flower print shirt beneath it, which Heath thought with her pink curly hair she looke