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and my mother would have gotten along very well,” I say as I let Lee lead me onto the dance floor.
    The band starts up a version of the song Garden in the Rain . “I’m not really a good dancer,” says Lee.
    “We’ll wing it,” I say. “So what exactly have you told your mother?”
    Lee flushes bright red. “I tried not to give her details. But she’s relentless. When I didn’t come home, she was worried about where I was. They still think I might, you know, fall off the wagon. So I told her I was with you and…” he takes a deep breath. “She’s relentless.”
    “Mothers usually are.”
    “I’m glad you’re here.”
    “So am I.”
    After the song ends, we walk hand in hand back to the table. Mr. Brennon is whispering in his wife’s ear. She giggles and gives him a teasing slap on the hand. “You two need to take a dance class,” she jokes. “Kids these days don’t know what to do on a dance floor.”
    “We just need more practice,” says Lee.
    “Well, maybe I’ll live to see the day you two dance—”
    “Helen...,” says Mr. Brennon.
    “—at our fiftieth anniversary. What did you think I was going to say, old man?”
    He raises an eyebrow at her.
    We get back to the Brennons’ home. Lee walks me to my car. “My parents really like you,” he says.
    “They’re good people. And they are lucky to have you for a son.”
    “That means I lot. Hearing you say that after everything that happened. I know they aren’t my parents in the physical sense. But there is more to parenting than biology. I am their son now.” He takes my hands in his and looks down at the ground. “I want to say something to you. And I don’t want you to tell me I’m wrong or that I don’t know what I’m saying. I don’t want to hear some para-scientific explanation. In fact, you don’t have to even respond. You can just let me get it out of my system and get in your car and not reply. Can you do that?”
    “Should I be afraid?”
    “I don’t know. I am.  There is a little fear. This is all new to me. But I think I love you, Nancy. I love you and it scares me just a little but I don’t want it to stop. I just wanted to say it out loud.”
    “Lee—”
    “I know what you’re going to say—”
    “I love you.”
    “That’s not what I thought you were going to say. Did you just say that?”
    “I love you, Lee. And yes, that scares me, too. Because we are treading strange ground here. It’s strange and sudden and terrifying and wonderful. But we’ll make this work. Somehow.”
    Lee kisses me. I get in the car and notice the living room curtain abruptly close as Lee turns around to return to the house.
    When I get home, I sense my mother’s presence in the kitchen. There is a pot of coffee freshly brewed.
    “I asked Harlan to make a pot before he left,” says Mother, who is sitting at the kitchen table.
    “Let me guess, you accepted the job as Overseer for that archdemon?” I say as I make myself a cup of coffee.
    “ We’re still negotiating the terms,” she replies.
    “Is this decaf?” I ask after taking a sip from my cup.
    “ Well, of course it is. You need to get a good night’s sleep and go to work in the morning.”
    “You are such a mom,” I joke. My mother tilts her head and gives me a firm ‘Mom’ look. “What did I do, now?”
    “ Honey, it’s about your servitor.”
    “Mom, we are not having this discussion now!” I say as I dump my cup of decaf in the sink.
    “ Nancy, it’s just that I worry this relationship is very unhealthy. For both of you.”
    “I understand your concern. I really do. And it is something I have given a lot of thought to. That’s why we’re taking things slowly.”
    “ Slow or fast, what does that matter? Have you really considered the ramifications of this? You are the same girl that used to make fun of those people who would write in to Dear Gladys about their demon lovers.”
    “Anyone who writes into an advice column deserves to be made fun