Time won't take nothing

 "I just don't think you are telling me everything," Maddie felt she and Boone had been pulled apart this last week or so. Sure, there was work and time was for those daily tasks, but it was the weekend and she really hoped he would talk about everything with his mother and this brother, Naoki.

"What's there to tell?" He smiled and kissed her in the kitchen as if that was all she needed.

"Oh, stop, you need to talk to me, how are you really feeling?" She winced as he leaned at the kitchen counter. They had been cleaning on the place like his mother might stop in any second. She wondered if Naoki would come too.

"How much do you really know about Naoki?" She wanted to know as she wiped down the counter one more time so he wouldn't.

"Look, stop worrying about me. It doesn't matter," he sighed. "It's Alfie I'm worried about. I mean, she's had this son tagging along with her all this time while she," Boone did look uncomfortable mentioning it. "Why couldn't she have been there for Alfie, you know?"

He hugged himself as if he wished Maddie hadn't brought it up. Of course, she went to get him coffee. There was always time for coffee. 

He pressed his lips tight, "And my father has been no help." He shook his head. "No way is he going to see her and well, he's not even talking to Alfie."

Maddie slid her hands up her shoulders, thinking what could she say. She didn't know.

"Look, I know it won't be easy for Alfie to get used to having his mother around. I don't know if I could do it." 

She festered a frown. "I've got a mom with a whole new family, I don't even know." She didn't mean to sink into emotion. "I'm afraid I would tell her to go away if she ever came here."

"No, you wouldn't," Boone said he didn't believe that. "Alfie is doing the right thing, and you would too."

"I guess you're right." 

He gave her a hug before they sat down to coffee and some leftover apple pie.

"I guess that guy Naoki is doing pretty well for himself. And he seems to really be taking care of Tammy, too.

"Tammy?" Maddie looked at him with serious eyes while he reached into the fridge for a can of whipped cream.

"Yes, my bio mom has a name." 

He swirled the cream on top of her piece of pie and then his.

"I think she wants to make something Hawaiian for us," that's when Boone told her they'd been invited to Sunday dinner.

"It wouldn't be a luau would it?" Maddie asked between bites.

"I don't think so, she lives in an apartment," Boone shrugged while he watched her eat. "I told her I could bring something, but she didn't want me to." He sipped his coffee.

"I wonder if Naoki will be there with someone?"

"I don't know, he does seem to be a Momma's boy to me," Boone nodded.

Maddie smiled back. "You know, you're a Momma's boy."

"Evidently." He chuckled.