With that, she headed back to the table, putting on her best smile, and sat down in an empty chair. "Now, I'm starving," she declared.
Several long minutes passed before Robert was jolted out out of his thoughts by a call from the table. "What's going on in there?" It was Sarah's voice.
He moved into the dining room. "Nothing," he lied, not wanting to admit what he'd been thinking about. He finished putting down the utensils, then went back into the kitchen and brought fresh pre-cut fruit, cereal and yogurt from the refrigerator and put it on the table. Richard himself usually didn't eat that, but he didn't feel particularly like eating anything this morning, so went back to the kitchen. Biff, who usually had a much more substantial breakfast, had been thinking how tight his jeans felt, and decided not to.
"I am going to go out today," Lucy said. "I think I need some new clothes. I've cleared my schedule for the rest of the week to try and cope with this."
"Why can't we all stay home?" Biff asked. "School is embarrassing. All the kids who didn't get changed are whispering about it."
"You can't hide from your problems, Biff. I can clear my schedule and go shopping. You can't not go to school."
"Just walk in there like nothing is wrong or has changed," Sarah said. "That's what I'm going to do. Speaking of which, we'd better hurry up. Don't want to be late."
Focused on the two teens, both Mollie and Robert had not declared their plans for what they'd do that day. At the moment, Lucy didn't care, as long as they didn't do it together. And if they did, well, Robert would be even farther in the doghouse.
