One Hundred Twenty Seven

"Good morning, Elena. How are you feeling? Ready to get back to the grind?"

"Yeah, and thanks for being there for me, mark. You don't know how much all of this means to me. Thank you."

"You're welcome. I'm glad I could be there for you. I've always liked you, and, well, I've thought of you as my long lost cousin, sort of. Anyway, I'm glad I could help out."

"Cousin, huh? Well, it looks like I'm going to be your sister-in-law, even if it isn't legal yet. Speaking of sisters, Marie is coming up to dinner tomorrow night and I would greatly appreciate it if you and your family would join us. I want to surprise Marie and I can't think of a better way to do it other than dinner with everybody."

"Wow! Yeah, I would love to have dinner with you and Lena. I think the girls would enjoy it as well. Yes, I'll tell Wendy. What time?"

"I think six o'clock would be fine. Any requests? I'm cooking."

"No broccoli, other than that, whatever you want to fix would be fine."

"No broccoli? Allergies?"

"Yea