“Um,” began Shane, seeing the bathing suit clad kid running to the back of the house.  Shane started to wonder what was going on, was she at the right house?

            “You know, you only call me MOM when you want something,” laughed Sam, scooping the boy up into her arms and walking into the living room.  “Hi…”

            “Um, Hi,” said Shane.  The boy wasn’t the same boy that Sam had been carrying the other day, but he was about the same age.

            “Go take a shower, I want your teeth brushed, and then come back down to say goodnight, ok?” said Sam to the boy. 

            The boy nodded, his hands a blur before him, Sam rolled her eyes, “You are being rude, you talk when someone else is around, Jesse.”

            “Sorry,” he said sheepishly, smiling at Shane.  He bolted up the half moon staircase and disappeared.

            “Sorry, he’s rambunctious sometimes, can I help you?” asked Sam confused.

            “Yeah, well, see… you… this isn’t what I’d imagined,” laughed Shane.  Sam nodded, stepping up to Shane, leading her into the house and closing the door.  Shane felt her breath stopping in her throat as Sam put a hand at the small of her back to move around her.

            “What had you imagined?  Walking in, me pinning you to the door, kissing you, and then fucking you before we ever made it to the bedroom?”

            Shane stammered, unable to form a word.

            “I was kidding…,” laughed Sam.  Motioning for Shane to come deeper into the house.

            “We met,” started Shane.

            “Yeah, this afternoon,” said Sam.  “Soda?”

            “Um, sure.  No, I mean, this weekend.  You asked me if the moving truck was at Lindsay and Mel’s?  I said no…”

            “That was you?  The hat must have thrown me off,” smiled Sam, handing Shane a cold soda. 

            “You… you dropped this,” stammered Shane.  Handing the small cell phone to Sam.  Where was the smooth Shane?   The one that would have already made a move?  Shane sighed, knowing that that Shane was long gone.