Status Updates From A Slice of Heaven (The Swee...

"Dr. McDaniels told me it's not unusual, but it is troubling." Ronnie looked stunned. "I thought she was better. She was laughing last night, almost like her old self." "That's denial," Dana Sue said weakly. "Not a sign she's cured. She wants us to believe everything's okay." "She needs to get with the program," Ronnie said heatedly. "So...what? You want to go to her room and yell at her?" Dana Sue inquired sarcastic

She could demand that he leave, and then find some compromise, so she'd come across as the reasonable one. Actually, it might be kind of fun to match wits with him again. "We need to go outside and wait for him," she told Maddie, leaping back to her feet. "Now." "Excuse me?" "No, hold on," she said, pausing in midstride. "I'll do outside and wait for him. You tell him to take a break. I'll ambush him as soon as he le

"She was going out with friends. She was active. I just didn't believe we'd reached a crisis stage." "Well, that's water under the bridge." Helen said pragmatically. "We'll all work together to fix this now." Dana Sue closed her eyes and tried to imagine Ronnie's shock when he saw Annie for the first time in two years. Somehow she'd gotten used to seeing the thin shadow of the girl Annie had once been. Ronnie only ha

For a few months now, she'd at least taken his calls, but the conversation still tended to be stilted and uninformative, nothing at all like the heart to hearts they used to have. Since Dana Sue and Annie weren't that eager to see him, Ronnie hadn't set foot in Serenity again, coward that he was. But lately he'd been thinking more and more about going home. He wasn't cut out for a vagabond's life. He hated living in