Lunch with Sylvia

Beth put down the menu and looked over at Jesse in the carrier, putting the pacifier back in his mouth. With a grin she shook her head, 'Can you believe how much he looks like your brother?' she said across the table at Sylvia who was battling Cabot in a high chair. She snicked as she nodded, securing Cabot into the seat.

Beth looked down at the menu again, when Neil suggested that she have lunch with her best friend and the two youngest babies, Beth thought nothing of it. She'd offered to bring Max too, but at the age of two he was going through such a destructive phase Neil was insistent on taking him along to the round of secret errands he had to do in the afternoon. 'I am really curious as to what Neil had to do this afternoon,' Beth said as she pondered over the chicken or the fish. Sylvia took a sip of her water and waved her hand as if to say 'Forget about it', choking slightly on the water. 'Oh my kobe are you okay?' Beth exclaimed as Sylvia nodded.

The girls both ordered their food and Beth looked over at her best friend and took a deep breath. 'Something really weird has been happening lately....' she began.