"We'll figure it out. I'll protect you," Annie told him, only half-teasing. You know, unless someone needed protection from him. She was really just wildly unprepared for this, no matter what she told herself. "We can get through an afternoon. And besides, I want to meet everyone. Especially your mom."

Siblings, yes, she was dying to meet. But she'd actually already corresponded a little with his mother and she was maybe a little extra-eager to hopefully impress a parent after, you know, that little scene with Reginald on Saturday.