CHAPTER 6 - IVY

By the time Ivy arrived home and settled tiredly in her chair at the dinner table. Geoff and Kathy were eating their dinner of chicken nuggets, coleslaw, and macaroni and cheese.

Geoff was halfway through dinner and much of the food was gone. “We saved you some, mom,” Geoff proudly stated. “It’s really good.”

Ivy only now relaxed, safe at home with Geoff and Kathy. For once, she was home in time to sit down with them and eat her meal.

“So, how was your day?” Kathy asked with a careful tone in her voice. “How was you know who to you today?”

“Let’s put a pin in that and come back when we don’t have an audience?”

“Oh, right? You still have a job, right?”

“I will say yes for now, but I think this weekend I’ll be brushing up my resume and portfolio. Then I’ll quietly put some feelers out for something else. Even though I like it there.”

“But that means you’d have to move.” Kathy’s surprise was something Ivy expected.

“Let’s talk about it later when someone else is asleep?”

“Does that mean