Eight Weeks

Barbara Kowalski let herself in to Ray's apartment, and stopped. It looked different, somehow. Cleaner and tidier, but more than that. Barbara smiled to herself, and started checking the kitchen – yes, she knew she was being nosy, but she was Ray's mother, she was entitled – and frowned a little when she found some kind of herbal tea that looked like it had twigs in it. Stella had liked those weird herbal teas, but Ray always hated them, said they were for yuppies with more money than sense.

Then she remembered him complaining about the weird Inuit teas Fraser drank, and brightened. If Ray had bought it for Fraser, then maybe he wasn't dating another yuppie Stella-type.