Chapter 14

"I don't even have a boyfriend yet, Harm, how can I have a baby."

"I feel another contraction coming on," said Harriett. She pushed as hard as she could and the baby slipped from her body.

"Harriett, it looks like you have another daughter."

AJ looked at Mac and asked, "Time?"

"January l, 2005, 0007 EST, Sir," she giggled. "Identical twins born a year apart."

When the ambulance arrived the oldest twin was an hour and ten minutes old. Everyone saw Bud, Harriett and the twins off to the hospital. Mac and Harm, who had arrived together, promised that one of them would bring the Roberts' van to the hospital for them.

AJ and Tami continued to run together over the next several weeks. The Tuesday after Christmas they ran together, and Tami thanked him for the gingerbread house. He told her with a smirk that he didn't know what she was talking about, but he admitted that he was really enjoying his baseball game that Santa had brought him.

Tuesday, February 1, 2005

1000 EST

McLean High School

McLean, Virginia

Four weeks into the school term AJ was wondering what to do about a problem he had never had before. He had started coaching high school baseball and all of a sudden he found that he had a secret admirer! AJ assumed that it was a woman at the school, either a teacher or maybe a secretary in the office. She would leave him small gifts on his desk or notes in his mailbox in the main office.

The notes told him how handsome and talented he was and the gifts ranged from the gifts ranged from the traditional apple for the teacher, to a key chain with a cute saying on it. One day there was home made brownies and the next there was a new leather wallet. Each included a note with a kiss of pale pink lipstick. At first he didn't think anything of them and then they began to worry him as he had been getting two or three gifts a week for two weeks. He never knew where they would show up, either on his desk or in his mailbox at school.

Tami was in the kitchen fixing dinner for her family when Sheena came rushing in. "Mom, how do you make a guy notice you?"

"Don't tell me some guy at that school would dare not look at my Sheena?" she teased.

"No, mom I'm serious. I have been trying to get his attention and he just looks right through me. He is so handsome and cool."

"Well, I had been thinking about inviting this man I've been jogging with to dinner, why don't you invite your young man to dinner the same night. He'll have to notice you then."

"Just walk up to him and ask him to come to dinner at my house?" her daughter asked in amazement.

"Yes, what could be more simple, you couldn't be Ms. Invisible then."

"Who is this man you are inviting home? How long have you known him?"

"He is a nice gentleman that I have been jogging with for a few months and if you think back to Christmas and the gingerbread house, he is the one that made it for us."

"You're not going to marry him or nothing, right?"

"Not over dinner, no," Tami replied shaking her head at her daughter.

"What if AJ won't come to dinner?"

"If he can't give you a good excuse, then you'll just have to realize he doesn't have the same feelings for you as you do for him."

"Oh, bummer, I have been dreaming about him taking me to the prom this year."

"Never put all you eggs in one basket, young lady. Just wait and see what he says when you ask him."

"Alright, Mom, now I had better go and get my home work done and write him a note."

"Sheena, darling, you don't write him a note, you ask him to his face."

"But it would be embarrassing if he said 'no'."

"Too bad, you ask this AJ of yours to his face, to have dinner with you, and that's an order."

"Yes mom," she sighed thinking, 'He just has to say yes and forget our age difference.' "I'm going to do my home work, call when dinner is ready."

"Alright, sweetie, it'll be a while.

To be continued…