"I'm fine. You look like you just got up. You almost forgot we were meeting, didn't you?" Wow, he was doing a lot better than he had thought. He looked over at Shannon. Oh, Reece. He had heard about it, she's Reece's girlfriend. He seemed to have become a bit sad but tried to cover that. "Oh, yeah, Reece. Cool. Um..." His mind wandered on what to say. He looked down at her hands. Aha! A book. "What is that book you were reading?"