Page 50 of Our Unexpected Beginning
Julia:
Go brag to your friends.
Graham:
Was it extracted under duress?
Julia:
There was a bit of arm twisting. The good kind.
Graham smiled at his phone. Excited to take the next step with Julia. They’d continued to talk after their night under the stars.
With his sister AWOL, his grandmother was the only blood to tell. Or who would care.
Blood didn’t make a family. He knew that with his friendship with Wes.
It was boggling for him to think that his niece Sarah was going to have a little cousin. He remembered when she was brought home. A tiny pink bundle that wrapped him from the first moment.
The older she got the more he didn’t understand how his sister could walk away and never look back. Kat’s abandonment didn’t stop with her daughter, but everyone she loved that she left behind.
Graham:
Okay, today we have #37 - Describe your relationship with your parents.
Graham:
Absent.
Julia:
Biologically blood, emotional strangers.
Graham:
Oh, good one.
Julia:
So….what are you up to?
Graham:
Winding down. We did some grinding to get ahead of the weather. Alex has a good setup going.
Julia:
Oh. Good day, I hope.
Graham:
Busy. Makes the time go faster. I miss you.
Julia:
Oh yeah?
He picked up the video call before the second ring. Julia appeared on the screen, and he grinned. “Hey.”
