"You've got to be kidding me," Kate says out loud, to herself, as she looks at the rack of pregnancy tests.
She picks one up and looks it over. "Dip the test in your urine? Eew!," She continues to read. "…or hold the test in your urine stream…Yuck! How gross!"
She looks up and around as if to make sure she doesn't see anyone she knows. She picks up another test and reads over it. She wrinkles up her nose. "Well, Lauren said any one of them should be alright." She puts one in her shopping basket and the other one back on the shelf.
As she moves away, she goes in the direction of the greeting cards.
"Hmm…," she says as she skims over the selection of Valentine cards and then, picks one up. She smiles, puts it back, and picks up another one. Her eyes get big. She quickly closes the card and puts it back. "Not hardly." She picks up another card and begins to read over it.
"Kate? Is that you?," a semi-familiar male voice says.
"Dwayne?," she says, looking up from the card she's reading. "Hi."
"Wow. I haven't seen you since…well…since we broke up."
"Yeah, it's been a while."
"How have you been?"
"Pretty good. I've just been busy."
"Are you seeing anyone?"
"Well, I'm not just seeing someone," she says and then, holds up her left hand and flashes her wedding rings. "I'm married now."
"Seriously?," he says, very surprised.
"Yeah," she says with a smile. "Two months ago on December 3rd."
"Oh, a newlywed, eh?"
"Yeah."
"Where did yall meet?"
"We met at work. We've actually known each other for a couple of years."
"Is it that DiNozzo guy?"
"Oh, good gracious, no," Kate says, chuckling.
"Oh, okay. When you said at work…"
"No, it's okay," she says, chuckling. "My husband's name is Jethro."
"Hey, that's the same name as your boss, isn't it?"
"Uh, well…He's not exactly my boss anymore. He's my husband."
Dwayne raises both of his eyebrows. "You're pulling my leg."
"No, I'm not," Kate says, shaking her head and laughing.
"Oh, come on. Are you serious?"
"Yeah, I'm serious." She whips out a wallet-sized wedding picture of her and Gibbs, from her purse, and shows it to Dwayne.
"Oh wow…You are serious."
Kate chuckles as she puts the picture back in her purse. "I know how it must sound, but when he and I started seeing each other, I transferred to a different team."
"Oh…Oh, I see. So, how exactly did all of this come about?"
"Well, it was kind of a whirlwind romance, but at the same time, it wasn't. We'd been falling for each other since we first met, but neither one of us would admit it. Then, when we finally did, we just knew in our hearts it was right. God had picked us out for each other and we saw no good reason to wait. We dated for about six weeks before he proposed and about five weeks after he proposed, we got married."
"Wow, that was fast."
"Yeah, it was. But, I couldn't be happier. He's truly a wonderful man and I really love him and he loves me."
"That's all that matters."
"Yeah."
"Well chee, Kate. I'm really happy for you."
"Thank you."
"Listen, it was great to see you again, but I've got to get some things and get going."
"Yeah, me too."
"Take care," he says, starting to walk away.
"You, too." She turns her attention back to the Valentine greeting cards. She puts the card she was holding, back on the rack, picks another one up, and begins to read it. She smiles.
"Perfect." She picks up the matching envelope and puts it and the card in her shopping basket, and walks away.
