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perspective. I don’t know what on earth is causing this, but she
certainly hasn’t been herself and I don’t know what to do about it,” he shook
his head sadly.
    Missy’s
eyes narrowed thoughtfully. “Ben, honey, how long has this been going on?” she
asked.
    “It’s
been nearly two months. She didn’t say anything immediately after the Hollywood
people left town, it was a few weeks after that when she started talking about
it,” he explained.
    A
huge grin spread slowly across Missy’s face.
    “What?”
Ben asked, eyeing her strange reaction suspiciously.
    “I’ll
be right back, sugar, you just take care of things here,” she replied, grabbing
her bag of cupcakes and dashing to the door, leaving a startled and puzzled Ben
staring after her as though she’d lost her mind.
    Stopping
at the drug store on the way back to Echo’s, Missy thought that she might have
an idea that would explain Ben and Cheryl’s entire disagreement.
    **
    Ben
Radigan cleared the coffee cups that he and his boss had used when she stopped
by, wondering what on earth had possessed her to dash out of the shop in the
way that she had. Shrugging it off and thinking that just about every woman he
knew was acting strangely, he tidied up the eating area, took a batch of cupcakes
out of the oven to cool, and packaged up an order for a children’s party.
    Hearing
the front door bell jangle, he came out of the kitchen, wiping his hands on a
towel, his apron covered in flour, to see his beloved wife standing in the
eating area with tears streaming down her lovely face, with Missy and Echo
beaming behind her.
    “Umm…everything
okay?” he asked, confused.
    Cheryl
ran to him and threw her arms around his waist, burying her face in his chest
and not caring that she was getting covered in flour. “Oh Ben, I’m so sorry.
I’ve just been awful and I had no idea, and I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings.
You’re the best thing that ever happened to me, and there’s no way that I’m
going to go to New York or Los Angeles or anywhere else without you,” she
babbled, tears flowing freely.
    “Hey,”
he raised her chin, making her look up with him. “I love you, it’s okay,” he
reassured her, enveloping her in a warm hug. “But, what made you change your
mind?” he asked, wondering how Missy and Echo had been able to talk some sense
into her so quickly.
    Reaching
into her purse, she extracted a baggie that contained a beige plastic stick of
some sort, and handed it to him. “This,” she said, pointing out the pink plus
sign on the stick. “You’re going to be a daddy,” her face flooded with joy as
Ben’s mouth hung open. Tears welled in his eyes as he crushed his beloved wife
protectively to him.
    “That
explains a lot,” he chuckled through his tears as Missy and Echo moved forward
for a group hug.
    Missy
grinned from ear to ear. She was home, she was safe, and she was about to
become a godmother – could life be any better?
     
     

 
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