ENDS

17- Okay

  Iris's p.o.v.

  After my conversation with Hunter's mom, her mood was severely dulled and soon enough our little hangout became awkward and we were already packing up to get home.

  On our silent walk back, Hunters mom's phone began buzzing and the moment she pulled it out of her purse, a smile fell on her lips.

" Been a really long time hun" she spoke into the receiver as we kept on going.

  I for one held my unfinished coffee in my hand and was slowly sipping on it.

Her conversation was simply going on with a lot of 'oh' 'yeah' 'uhun'  I think I heard some other sentences in between but I wasn't really paying attention.

" She's here with me" she said and I had no doubt that she was referring to me, so her conversation suddenly piqued my interest.

" Here, it's Phoebe " she turns to me and hands me her phone, meanwhile the name of the caller managed to put a smile on my lips also.

" Hello " I said into the phone

" Iris, how are you?" Mrs Phoebe's soft voice replied.

" I'm okay. Good morning."

" Bless you sweetheart. Did Hunter deliver my message earlier?"

  Now that she asked, was when I recalled she said she was supposed to fly in to New York.

" Yes he did. I'm sorry I haven't been able to call you, I lost my p-"

" oh please stop it. It's fine okay?" She cut me short and another smile crossed my lips.

" okay. When is your flight leaving?"

" It's already left, I'm currently in New York. Surprisingly I met Meredith on my flight " and at the mention of Merediths name I heard her shout in the background 'Yo Iris !'

  I couldn't help the chuckle that escaped. " I'd soon be there, just give me a while "

" You sure you wanna come? I can get Dylan to come get us"

Dylan

" it's fine.. I'd be there"

" okay, we're waiting for you hun. Take care. Love you "

" love you too"

" I love you most!" Meredith's voice came through again and I couldn't help the second chuckle that escaped.

At the sound of the dial tone, I retracted the phone from my ear and handed it back to hunters mom while mouthing her a thank you.

She only nodded briefly with a smile before we resumed our silent short trek. Though the silence didn't last long as she asked a question.

" I never knew you were acquainted with Phoebe "

" oh, we've known for a really long time now"

" You guys met through Dylan?"

" yeah"

" hmm" she started but gave a brief pause before continuing " She knows about Louisa?"

  Her question officially caught me off guard but I didn't want to assume too much.

" Yeah.. I think she saw it on the news "

" I'm talking about Louisa as my granddaughter. Does she know?"

" uhmm.." I began and took a second to clear my throat " yeah she did"

" Funny she didn't tell me " She said with a slight tone of disbelief in her voice.