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danceingqueen
Holly's smile fell and she just stared dumbfounded at her eldest son.
"Thank you for your word." She mumbled tears threatening to fall from her blue eyes.
"I'll just clean up this mess." She said mostly to herself as her son left the table to find her other son. Five children, that was quite a lot but she would just have more things to love. Maybe she should have not told him. Holly sighed to herself thinking of when Dale was a little baby in her arms. He was so old now. How could that be? Holly smiled to herself again hoping her new baby would be a boy and also wondering where her other son, Heath, was.
Dale had a feeling that he had more than likely hurt his mother's feelings with his response but he just being honest. He really didn't know how to respond to news like that...maybe he should have just pretended to be happy, that would probably have put a smile on her face instead of the tears that he just happened to catch right before he turned to leave. He sighed, hopefully she'd be back to her nice cheerful self by later. For now he would focus on finding his brother. He couldn't have been very far away....he would have told him before making any kind of big trip...