Chapter 4
"Hey you two! Here take the urchins," Krista said as she popped a twin in each of their arms, "I need to get the casserole out of the oven! And then Albert and I have something we need to talk to you about!" She was almost jumping up and down in her excitement to tell them what the news was.
Krystal held the twin she had close and inhaled the new sweet smell of baby. She felt her eyes tearing up and blinked, burying her face in the twin's neck. Sitting on the couch next to Tom the twins kicked at each other and cooed as though they had to have contact and couldn't stand to be apart.
Krista did what she needed to in the kitchen while AJ offered drinks to Tom and Krystal, and then his wife came running back into the room. "You didn't tell them yet did you?" she demanded.
"No, darling, I was leaving that up to you since it was all your idea," AJ grinned at her excitement. "However if you want me to, I guess I can be forced to make the effort."
"NO! I want to!" she pushed him out of the way and plopped herself down on the floor in front of the couch where Tom and Krys were sitting holding the babies. "So, you guys want a baby?"
"Please, Kris, lets not talk about it anymore. It just hurts too badly. Here take the baby, I need to go to the bathroom for just a minute," she replied getting up and handing the baby to Krista and walking stiffly to the bathroom.
Krista watched in sorrow as her sister made a run for the bathroom, "I guess I should have worded that differently," she sighed.
Tom looking at Krista and AJ said to them, "She's been very down since we got the news. I tried to tell her that we can adopt, but she wants to feel a child growing in her and nurse it like you are doing Krista. It'll just take her time to get passed this hurt, I hope."
"Tom, that is what AJ and I wanted to talk to the two of you about tonight..." she trailed off as Krystal came out of the bathroom. You could tell that she had washed away the evidence of her tears. "Krys, I'm sorry that I started our news in such a way, but I was so excited that I went about it in the wrong way."
"That's all right, Kris, I seem to do a lot of crying these days," she shrugged sitting back down net to Tom. "What is this big, wonderful new you have for us?"
"Well, Albert and I have talked it over…and we would like to give you a baby!" Krista announced cheerfully.
Krystal, not understanding what she meant, looked at her twin nieces and wondered how they could even think of giving her one.
"No, Dufus! Not one already made! We want you to mix up your baby and then have it planted in me and I'll play oven for you!"
"You would carry our child for us and then after delivery turn it over to us?" Krystal asked
stunned at her sister's suggestion. "Tom, did you hear what she just said? What she just offered to do?"
Tom was looking at his closest friend in the world. AJ was more like a brother to him than anyone else had ever been, but he couldn't believe that his friend was going to allow his wife to do this for them! "AJ, you are okay with this?"
"Yes, Tom, we talk about it before we offered you two any hope. If I hadn't agreed you would never have known about this plan," AJ calmly told his friend. However, he didn't tell him of his misgivings, they were too personal to even mention to his wife. She didn't understand what he had said this afternoon so there was no use saying anything else. "How about it, buddy, are you two going to take us up on our offer or do you need to think about it?"
"Kris, I don't know what to say," Krystal cried. "What about your health?"
To be continued…
