We chatted away for the morning and then Kevin came in right around lunch time. He and Terri had decided to have a final lunch together, just the two of them before she left. Terri asked if I minded and I told her of course not. They said they’d come back and pick me up so that we’d all go to the gymnastics exhibition together. We’d have dinner together afterwards.
At about 4:30, they picked me up. We loaded into Terri’s Mercedes minivan and were off. Kevin was in high spirits and Terri looked a little sad. When we got to the studio and Terri and I were heading to the bleachers, I asked her “What’s the matter?”
She teared up and said, “I feel bad leaving Kevin. We have never been apart for this long before. I know he’s a teenager, but he’s still my little boy.”