Ruth wouldn't get far. Kate jumped up from the step where she sat eavesdropping the conversation. "Ruth!" She took the last few steps down and hugged her sister, careful not to hurt the baby. There was a part of her that was hurt about how her sister had left them and ignored them. But a greater part of her wanted life to go back to normal - or well, sort of normal -, with Ruth and John home and her parents not so stressed. She wanted to believe that Ruth's return was the beginning of that. "I've missed you so much." She wasn't lying, for her voice broke when she said that.