"Actually Julia said she'd sneak me in something so I'm not stuck with
hospital food. They want me to eat.. oatmeal," Rachel said in mock shock
"without fruit! Whoever thought of oatmeal without gummi bears? It's a
crime."
And sure enough Julia had finished her breakfast, put the plate in the sink
and was packing up little Tupperware dishes into a stay-warm casing, at the
same time saying something to Nick that had him laughing in response.
Rachel remembered her daughter's hesitancy with Julia and a shadow of a
memory of Julia visiting her with concerns of her own "I take it you talked
it out with Julia and you two are okay now? Well, they'd have to be if
Tuffy slept with all of you. What are you eating for breakfast anyway...
not the cupcakes, I hope?"
Kat hesitated, "bacon and juice and milk," she told her. "The fresh kind of
juice with the pulp in it," she added hoping that counted for something.
"Everything's okay, Philip helped me talk to Julia and Tuffy decided she was
okay too. We can bring you oatmeal with gummi bears if you want."
Kat
