Amanda sighed. "I'm not really sure. I've been writing to Max, he said he might be coming home. Mum said Lauren was talking about coming home too. So I may be going home, but I'm not sure who's going to be there," she said wistfully, thinking of past Christmases, when everyone, excluding her father, had been present. It had been almost 2 years. "Oh, and Mum said that you're always welcome at our house, if nothing works out with Jaquline," she added, remembering her mother's pestering about Amelia's holiday plans.