"Thanks for joining us, you two. Everything okay?" Lauren's mother, Charlotte, and her

father Steve sat at the breakfast table with coffee cups.

"Yes, everything's fine," Chase answered as he and Lauren entered the kitchen holding

hands.

"Are you hungry?" Lauren asked.

Steve and Charlotte looked at each other and said simultaneously, "We're starved."

"They don't feed you anything on the planes anymore. Worthless peanuts or pretzels, ...