Friendsgiving

 Hope and Kyle went with baby Jewel to Dylan and Tori's. They didn't have turkey, but spaghetti instead. Tori said she'd missed pasta the most and since her blood sugar was normal again they gathered together with freshly baked bread and lots of salads. Really, it was quite simple but it was nice to be with friends. There was talk about how they celebrated the holiday, but then later they played FRIENDS trivia and talked about other silly things.

"I hear that guy living with Megan and Cori should be on Jeopardy," Kyle mentioned. He'd been talking to Roman, lately. 

"You think you could make a living that way?" Tori asked. "You know, just on game shows."

"I dunno, it might be more of a price than any of us know, you know to pay, especially with so much social media. He might have to date somebody famous." Hope shrugged. Naturally, Kyle gave her a nudge to be quiet.

"That's just ridiculous," Tori laughed. "Whoever heard of such a thing?"

"He might end up in a Taylor Swift song," Dylan smirked. They watched a little TV while the babies were up and finally got around to SKIPO.

Caitlin could hardly talk when she called Megan. Of course, it upset her. She was afraid something had happened to Deano. "No..no..that's not it," she blurted. "I ..I miss Melvin."

"Melvin?" Of course, Megan kept her voice low. She said Cyrus and Pixie were at their place. So were her grandparents.

"Oh God, I forgot all about them being here," she knew she should hang up, but her eyes were almost swelled shut from crying so much. She'd lied to Deano about laying down after dinner. She said she'd watched OLD YELLER with her Dad and couldn't stop crying.

"What's wrong?"

"I already told you..." she cleared her throat, but the tears soon consumed her as she tried to get the words out. "Why couldn't the baby have been Melvin's? Why wasn't it Melvin's?" She sniffed what she could of the phelm but she honestly was making herself sick and truly she didn't care. "We.." she sighed heavily.."We would have at least..have had..a little bit of him..still here."

"Cait." Megan couldn't seem to console her. "Cait, listen to me. Don't do this. Try not to be so sad." She was quiet as if she wasn't sure what to say. "Try to focus on the good things. Look how great your Dad is doing. And..and be happy for Tori and the baby."

Caitlin pressed her lips tight. She wanted to do as Megan said, but she wanted to remember Melvin too. Why hadn't she liked him more? Why couldn't she be who he wanted her to be? She hung up on Megan. Truly, Caitlin felt as if she was the worst person in the world.

Frankie liked this. He was glad to be alone with Bea without any interruptions. Possibly, the vodka made them a little woozy but she was honest when she told him about Terrence.

"He was Marcus' older brother," she smiled. "Oh, he was the best. God, could he cook. And I was engaged to him." She sounded as if they were the best of times.  They'd met in high school. "I stayed with his family when he went to war. He was a marine."

Of course, as soon as she started talking about him, she got a little emotional as she cleared her throat. "It was a roadside bomb." She tried to smile. "After that, it was just Marcus and his mother and he found out she had cancer..really bad..so..I promised her I'd take care of Marcus. That's why we got married. And, it went really fine for a year or so. I think I loved him in the beginning." She nodded, "But he's always had this trouble, trying to get ahead. He's not a thing like his brother." Her eyes were wet. "You know, I feel bad I can't keep my promise. But I have a feeling if his mother was around she'd tell me I should have kicked him to the curb, years ago."