"I don't want to be their child's Step-Mom, no," Mary Anne said firmly. She would be a great Step-Mom and she knew she would. But she would never be able to be Cokie's child's Step-Mom. Not ever.
"Aww, Kristy," she sighed, "I think you are overreacting. I don't think he is mean. He does things different from Alan, yes, but I don't think he is deliberately mean."