"No, I'm optimistic," Mel said, chuckling. "Jack is something altogether more than that. I don't think I've ever seen the man frown."
Timothy asked about her Christmas plans, and she reached for her water and took a sip before answering. "I'll be with my family all of next weekend. Usually my parents and siblings and I will spend Christmas Eve together, and then the extended family joins for lunch on Christmas Day. My family's...large." She laughed simply because it was almost an understatement. Any time she'd ever brought friends home for the holidays when she was younger, they'd always been shocked at the size of her family. "You?"