"It is your father."
At first Jon thought she meant Karyn's father and panicked. Then when she figured out that her mother had said it was her, not Karyn's father, she wasn't sure if she should be more or less panicked.
Taking the phone from her mother, she said, "Hello Daddy."
"Hi Sweetie. How are you holding out?"
"We are all fine, Daddy." She said, struggling to figure out what, if any thing, had changed in her relationship with her father now that she was a single mom.
"I wanted you and Karyn to come visit this weekend, can you?" Joan's father asked. "I know that I didn't react very well at first, but I hope you have forgiven me. If you don't want to, I'll understand."
As Jon, he had enjoyed the times he visited his father. As Joan, he felt that he would have done so as well, most likely not the same way, but still, he was her father.
"I'll check with Mom, to see if there is any thing planned that I don't know about. Hang on a second." Joan covered the phone with her shoulder and looked at her mom.
"Daddy wants Karyn and I to come for a visit this weekend. Do you know of any reason why I should not go?"
"I know he hurt you with his knee-jerk reaction to you being pregnant. I might never forgive him for that. But he is your father and I do hope you can forgive him enough to allow him back into your life. The reason's my marriage to him failed had nothing to do with you, it is between him and me. If you want to go, you should. Tell him that he can come to dinner Friday night and then you can load up his car for the weekend. Remind him that babies need lots of stuff so he needs to come prepared to care a lot of stuff home with him."
"Okay." Joan told her mother and then spoke to her father. "We like that, Daddy. Mother invited you to dinner Friday night, if you want to come."
"Has she forgiven me?"
"Not totally, but I don't think she will try to poison you."
"Then tell her I'd love to come to dinner, I'll be there about half past five."
"Okay. Bye Daddy."
"Bye Sweetie, I love you."
"I love you too, Daddy." Joan said, surprising herself as she had meant to say it. Jon almost never told either of his parents he loved them.
Joan was more than a little confused as she helped her mother clean up after dinner. She wasn't sure what she should be doing with her life.
She finally decided to sleep on it.
