Chapter 100

“Maybe a little too anxious in your case,” laughed Gwen. “We’re looking forward to bringing you home and taking care of you for a week or two, Steve. We should be able to be alone now and then, if Lisa can get Mom and Kate to go shopping with her.”

“I’m willing, sis, but it won’t be that easy to fool Mom. She wasn’t born yesterday. She knows more than she lets on.”

“Tell me about it! When I finally got her to take Dad shopping for Christmas, she texted both me and Kate that they were coming home early. Then when she got home she gave Steve and me a little talk about being responsible.”

“Don’t tell me that you two were doing it!” gasped Lisa. “What about birth control? Right in the house? What if Kate came home?”

“No! We weren’t ‘doing it,’ as you so nicely put it. We were doing some petting and Mom must have suspected it because when I didn’t answer her text, she made sure that Kate came home to warn me that Mom and Dad were almost home.”

“Wow! Mom’s pr