Authors Notes: This story has a working title. Please Review and let me know how I am doing, I will take suggestions on how to improve this story or if you have any story ideas. This story is starting out in the rating of T. However, the rating may change as time goes on,just because I am paranoid. I don't know how often I will post a new chapter. Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Miracle or the real life people, I am just borrowing and playing with them. With the intent to return them upon the close of the story. Kathryn and Mrs. Conner's are mine characters. One more thing before I let you read. This story was written by the main character Kathryn around the year of 2010.

My Jack

The love of my life, my will and living within the American Miracle Dream team.

By: Bobcatwriter

Chapter one: Introduction and Meeting Jack.

Those were the days the Bunkers sang on the opening credits to "All in the Family" but believe me those days were not the easiest at all, there was war, riots, Watergate, the thought of what if the Soviet Union would actually do something stupid. No, those days were not easy at all. Although in today's standards those seemed like easy days, but as a person who came of age during these times, I must tell you that those days were not easy at all. The purpose of my story? Well that is something that you are going to have to wait and see, my name is Kathryn Jacqueline O'Callahan, Well back in those days of the 70's it was Pressman, no not of those Pressman and this is my story of how I met my husband, our struggles as a couple and me living within the American Miracle Dream team, so let us take a journey back about 35 years, to the year 1975, so come along will you?

The year of 1975 was one of indifference, the women's movement was coming more alive than ever, a big energy crisis that we have faced since the beginning of the seventy's was taking its toll and our money. The fall of South Vietnam, to North Vietnam that came in the form of mass evacuations of American soldiers and citizen's out of that country. All of that was going on, while I was trying to find my way around a large city and adjust to my new life. I was just 17 years old with average looks that September of 1975 when I was a part of the incoming freshmen class at Boston University. I was scared out of my mind, because just ten days before I packed up my things and moved away from everything I ever known, in New Mexico to Massachusetts.

On that September morning of the 3rd in 1975, I had walked into my history 105 class; American history from 1400 to 1899 scared shitless because I was unsure of who I was, what I was about to become and who I was about to meet. Following me into the class walks Jack O'Callahan, I had always liked to sit towards the front near the middle and where does he sit down? Right next to me in the middle. He was back then 6'1 and about 175 pounds soaking wet. He was an alright looking guy with his boyish grin behind those horned rimmed glasses, but I had to snap myself back into reality as I was on an American Legion Scholarship. I was the first one certainly out of my high school in Eunice if not the only one who made it that far east from New Mexico.

"Hi, I'm Jack" he said to me after he sat down next to me.

"Katie' I replied 'It's nice to meet you," I said as I offered my hand to shake it.

He started to take out a pen and a notebook out of his back pack, when he said; "So, Katie have you been in Boston long?"

"What?" I questioned him, thinking that I heard a proposition out of him.

"Have you been in Boston, long? Because I don't ever remember seeing you," Jack said.

"No only about 5 days,' I smiled at him 'and I don't know about you Jack, But I am here for learning, so if you don't mind leave me alone." With that I had given him the brush off, thinking that he would leave me alone.

Apparently, Jack liked me from the get go, why I did not know. I was just as surprised as everyone else when I had gotten the letter saying that I won a scholarship to college, but when the letter came from Boston University, I and everyone in my home town were on cloud nine because I was going to get out of New Mexico, except for one person. My father who was less then pleased with my decision to follow my heart, apply to Boston University and go to school there. Life with my father was not the most pleasant life that I had known. But after I had gotten out of that town and for the first 8 weeks, I was on the exact same cloud at BU until the history midterms came back with an F on the test, "Shit" I said.

"What's wrong, Katie?" asked Jack.

"Nothing, I got a bad grade, how did you do?" I asked him.

"A as per usual" he said as he showed me his midterm grade.

"An A? How is that possible you missed like what 5 classes, how in the hell did you get an A?" I asked.

"Just luck I guess" said Jack as he smiled sheepishly.

I rolled my eyes, before I sarcastically said, "Well, that is it, I am going to get my scholarship revoked, get thrown out of here, go back to Eunice and into my father's house, with my tail between my legs, all because I could not handle it in big bad Boston."

I was very sarcastic in those days, Jack says that I am still sarcastic to this day, but I am jumping ahead of myself.

"If you want my help, Katie why don't you just ask? After all I was born and bred here and I would be more than happy to help you," Jack said.

I grimaced for a minute or two before I batted my big brown eyes under my long wavy brown hair and said, "Jack would you please help me learn everything that I need to know?"

"Yes, meet me at the library at 8:30 tonight and we will get started," he said. That night I had no idea what I would be getting myself into.

I arrived at the library at 8:25 and waited nervously for Jack to get to the library. I decided that I would give him about 10 minutes and if he didn't show up, then I would go back to my dorm room and try to figure out a way to get out of the midterm mess without his or anyone else's help. I got out my history book and started to intently work in it. 8:30 went by as well as 8:40 and 8:45. At 5 to nine I knew that I had been blown off. I packed up my stuff and started to walk out of the library when Jack rushed in.

"Sorry, sorry practice ran long. I tried to get here as soon as I could. But Rizzo thought it would be best if I showered first," Jack said huffing clearly indicating that he ran clear across campus.

"Excuse me, Rizzo?" I quirked an eyebrow up to him.

"Yeah, one of my teammates, we play hockey together," he said smiling.

I scoffed as I crossed my arms, "You play hockey? What is that?" I asked.

"It's a sport, you ever been?" Jack said smiling at me as he was pulling out his history book out of his backpack at the table I had just vacated.

"Sorry there is no hockey in south eastern New Mexico. Might be up near the mountains." I said, this was years before either Dallas or Phoenix got their NHL teams.

Jack's face fell and then he sat down on a chair and said, "Look it doesn't matter I am here now, let's just get started."

"Look you told me to meet you here at 8:30 and you didn't show up, so why should I even give you a chance to even tutor me." I said, before I turned and started to walk away.

I was a good 30 feet away from the table he was at, before I heard Jack say, "Because if you don't, you are going to be walking back into your father's house with your tail between your legs, looking like a beat mutt, because you got thrown out of school."

He was right though, I didn't want that to happen, I turned back around and said "I guess I have no choice do I."

"No, you still have a choice, it's up to you about what to do with it." Jack had been right, I walked back to the table, took a seat next to him, got out my books and we started to study together.

It was nearly 1:00 in the morning when we were kicked out of the Library. Jack said to me as we left the library that evening "Do you want to come to the Dugout and we will finish studying there?"

"The dugout? What's that?" I asked.

"It's a bar, you do have bars in New Mexico?" He asked me sarcastically.

"Of course; we have bars in New Mexico asshole." I said back.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you" Jack said to me with his hands up.

I yawned before I said, "I would like to Jack but it's very late and I have an 8 am class. Maybe some other time."

Jack put his hands back down, before he said, "Ok, Katie I get it, can I walk you to your room?"

I turned quickly towards him before saying, "excuse me my room?"

"I meant your dormitory", Jack said as a blush crept up his neck.

"Yeah sure." I said as we walked away from the library heading to Rich Hall, where I was living my freshman year.

We walked in silence for about 10 minutes, when he said "So".

"So what?" I asked.

"Well I was wondering what a pretty girl like you is doing here. You're like 3,000 miles away from home," Jack said.

"It's 2,154 miles thank you very much. And I am here because my mom wanted me out of New Mexico," I said.

"She did? Why?" Jack asked with his eyebrows half crossed and raised, I have to admit that he looks so cute when he looks like that even to this day.

"Because she didn't want me to face the same fate that she did, she was captain of the cheer leading squad, her senior year of high school in 1953. She and my father were high school sweethearts, He was captain of the football team in Odessa." I said.

"Odessa?" Jack looked at me confused.

"Odessa, Texas. Anyway, she and him got pregnant after the last football game of the year, state championship, the team lost. She was thrown out of school by March of 1954, she never graduated. Anyway 5 months later my brother Gerry was born. By then mom was a full-time housewife and mother. Dad was working in the oil fields, around Odessa, three years later I was born, I was' I corrected myself 'am super smart like mom. She was always reading and writing, when I got the American Legion Scholarship award from Boston University. I was told by my neighbors and friends that I would be stupid not to do it, it's what my mom wanted."

"She sounds like one hell of a woman." Jack said as he smiled at me as I turned to face him, when we got to my dormitory. He tucked a piece of my hair behind my ear and slid his hand down my cheek.

"Well Jack, thanks for helping me. Good night." I turned to go up the three steps to my dorm.

When Jack said to me, "Anytime, do you want to get some coffee or piece of pie sometime?"

I turned around to face and I was just about to answer him, when a voice come from behind me and said "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" It was Ms. Conner's my resident director. She was a frumpy woman in her mid to late 40's.

I quickly turned around to face her and said, "I am sorry Ms. Conner's I was at the library studying."

"Studying huh, I would not put it past you that you were in his dorm room fooling around." Ms. Conner's said pointing a finger at Jack.

Jack's face fell before he said, "No Ma'am, that's the truth. I was supposed to meet Katie at 8:30 in the library but my team practice ran late. I am very sorry."

"Kathrine; you know that there is a curfew for my freshmen students. That curfew is at 11:30 for a reason," Ms. Conner's said.

"I know I am very sorry," I told her.

"Get to bed, we will talk about this in the morning," Ms. Conner's said.

"Yes, Ma'am; Goodnight, Jack," I said.

"Goodnight, Katie; have pleasant dreams," Jack said as I scurried into the building with Ms. Conner's following closely behind to make sure I got up to my dorm room.

The next morning as I was leaving for my 8 O'clock, English class I saw Jack outside of Rich Hall; my dormitory with a cup of coffee and a bag with a donut. "Good morning" he said as he smiled at me.

"Jack, you haven't been outside of my dorm all night, have you?" I asked.

"No, I thought I would walk you to your class. I brought you some coffee and breakfast. I figured you would not have time to eat at the student union. I didn't know how to fix it, so I brought it black." Jack said.

I smiled at him, before I said. "Usually a cream and two sugars."

"A cream and two sugars, coming up." Jack said as he handed me the breakfast bag and set my coffee on the railing to fix my coffee. I opened the bag and he grabbed one of the creams and two sugar's out of the bag along with a spoon to stir.

"Doughnut's?" I asked him with my eyebrows raised.

"Breakfast of champions," Jack said smiling.

I giggled before I said, "You are so sweet."

"I try. So, what did your Resident Director say to you?" Jack said as he pulled the spoon out of my coffee, and put the lid back on.

I groaned, before I said; "I don't know I have a meeting with her after my English class' I looked at my watch, 'in like 5 minutes"

"Well here, let's go." Jack said as he handed me my coffee and proceeded to walk me to class.

"You know you never said an answer to my question I asked you last night," Jack said to me.

"What question was that," I said as I took a sip of my coffee.

"Me wanting to take you out for a piece of pie sometime, I want to get to know you better," Jack said.

I smiled before I said, "Yeah, maybe."

"Maybe? Cool! I have a game on Friday and Saturday night. Maybe Sunday afternoon, after I get home from my parent's place. I could pick you up," Jack said to me.

"You go to your parent's place?" I asked confused.

"Yeah for mass and lunch, but only when the team is in town or I am not busy. I thought maybe we could study there too." Jack said.

"Sure, I guess, so what time?" I asked.

"How about I pick you up at 3:00 at your dorm?" Jack asked.

"Ok, I will see you then," I said.

"Great, have a good day." Jack said and then he kissed me on the cheek, before I walked up into the building where my English class was at.

As I walked into the building where my class was, I looked back at Jack and he held his right hand up and waved slightly. I smiled at myself, I knew he was checking my butt out.

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