D7 called H at bedtime. As the phone was ringing, she mumbled, "I hope this works." H did answer and D7 was super excited to talk to him. She asked him when he would be back in town. He told her Tuesday. He told her last week that he would eat lunch with her at school one day this week. She asked him if it would be Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. He said he'd eat lunch with her on Friday. We all said prayers together and they said goodnight.
Then, H asked to talk to me. He started telling me about how much fun he's having with our nieces and nephews. We don't see them often enough. He sounded really happy to be spending time with them. Particularly when we lived in H's home state, his family and I were very close. They've been part of my family since I was 19, so it's pretty difficult to miss out on some of this stuff. I told him that it sounded like they were having fun and that I wished I were there to see them, too. He said, "Yes, you definitely should have come." I told him that I really missed everybody and he said they all missed me, too. Then he told me that he loved me very much. I'm sure he means as a friend and nothing more. It's so easy for me to start developing expectations when he acts like my H instead of the alien-possessed H he is most of the time now.
