An hour later they were still in the restaurant.  The wait staff had started setting the tables for the evening crowd.

“Jesus Helena, it probably would have been easier to ask what you haven’t done these past 16 years.  God living on an island with your prison cell mate you are wild.  And to think I thought you were so vanilla.”

Jo checked her watch

“Do you need to be somewhere?”

“No, I just need to check in with Sarah, her husbands away and I just want to see if she’s ok, do you mind if I just give her a quick call?”

“Of course not, I’ll just head to the ladies room.”

Jo watched her walk away.  ‘God she still has an amazing ass’ she thought.  She pulled out her cell and called her sister.  As she did, she also settled the bill.

“Hello”

“Sarah it’s me, I just wanted to check how you were.”

“I’m fine honey, Steve just called, he is coming home early, they managed to close the deal this afternoon.”

“That’s great, hey guess what, I ran in to Helena today, turns out she is a friend of my boss.”

“Oh my god, well what happened?  Did you talk to her?  Is she single?”

“Slow down, I can’t talk right now, I’m with her, we went to lunch. I’ll call you tomorrow and tell you all about it.”

“That is just evil, you know I’m gonna do nothing but wonder what happened.”

“I know, this is a great time to practice you patience skills, you know that they will come in handy when the baby is born.  She’s coming back I gotta go.  Love you.”

“Yeah whatever.”

As Helena walked back to the table, she could tell that Jo was checking her out and she felt those all to familiar butterflies.

“So how is Sarah?”

“She’s great, she and her husband are expecting their first baby in a few months.  I can’t wait to be an aunt.”

“That’s great news, kids are just amazing.”

“Do you miss yours?”

“So much, I really only get to see them when they’re on vacation.  I try to fly to New York as often as I can.  Now Winnie and I are getting along, it’s makes things so much easier.”