This week with Arlene and Jeff:
...Before more could be said, Jeff walked in, obviously having heard at least part of the conversation. "My thoughts exactly," he said as Diana got up to return shortly with a glass full of ice. Smiling his thanks, he filled the glass with lemonade before taking several large swallows just as Arlene, Ann, Kei and Aiko, the latter two bedraggled looking, walked into the kitchen. One look at the lemonade, and they all got glasses before sitting at the table with the rest.
Despite what Diana had said, Jeff did have some sweat on him, but not nearly enough to have run as far as he had. It was evident Arlene and Ann had been exercising, but they weren't stressed. Kei and Aiko, on the other hand, looked every bit as bad as Morales, but they wore a grin that seemed to be permanently plastered across their faces.
"I take it that you made your ten miles in the allotted time?"
"Well," Aiko began but was interrupted by Arlene.
"Kei made her ten, eight-minute miles with Aiko only a few minutes behind her. We are so very proud of both of them. That is an astonishing accomplishment in the short time they have been running."
The tiny woman spoke up. "I did not make it in the time my daughter did. However, I am improving every day, and shortly I hope to do the ten miles in eighty minutes."
Jeff stood, walked over and kissed both Kei and Aiko deeply. "Well done," he quietly said to both of them, then to Arlene and Ann, "and well done to you two as well."
"Mom and I could not have done it without Arlene and Ann," Kei agreed.
As he returned to his seat, Jeff saw Jasmine checking her watch, and it didn't take a genius to surmise she was doing a little arithmetic in her head...
Have a goodun;
Roust