“We are here.”  Deacon states.

Deacon pulls on to the off ramp and exits the interstate.  They drive through town and pull into the parking lot of their first stop.  Backed into the dock at the only big grocery store in Shoreline.  Deacon grabs the paperwork for this stop out of the small pile he had taken off Will’s desk.  Clara the receiving manager hears the release of the airbrakes and opens the door to let both Deacon and Trent in. 

Clara starts the process of checking them in, when from out of nowhere Clara looks up from counting her beer order.  She asks Deacon if he has talked to Katelyn’s family and if he knows how they are holding up.  Deacon answers that they are doing fine.  She then asks him if he has spent much time with them since the funeral. 

“A little bit,” he tells her, knowing that he really has not been over there much since the funeral. 

One reason being because of the sorrow in her mom’s eyes, but the bigger reason being Katelyn’s twin sister, Emily.  She is too much like Katelyn, and Deacon has a breakdown every time he sees her, let alone spends time with her.  Only those closest to him know this and he is not about to share this fact with Clara, especially in front of Trent.  Trent brings Deacon and Clara back to the task at hand.  As he is brings in the rest of the order, dropping a case of beer.  Deacon looks at the beer all over the floor.

“It’s amazing how big of a mess it makes, isn’t it?”  Deacon laughs as he changes the subject since Trent has rejoined them. 

Deacon offers to clean it up and Clara tells him not to worry about it, knowing that they have too much to get done.  The rest of the day flies by, at a fast pace as they try to keep on track.  They finish up the rest of their deliveries and get back on the interstate, heading back home to the big city of Willow Brook.

On the way home Trent exclaims, “Wow, it has been a long day.” 

Deacon agrees.  An uncomfortable silence settles in the cab.  Deacon asks Trent if there is something on his mind.   

“Clara almost seems like part of your family.”  

Deacon proceeds to tell him, “with this mess, and all that I have been through.  They stuck by my side through the whole thing.  Most of them came to the funeral.” 

They pull into the plant, back into the loading dock.  They walk back into the plant.  Deacon tells him that he will see him in the morning, just to do it all over again. 

As Deacon walks out of the plant his phone rings.