Chapter 36

"Andrew, you and Sheena will leave to be on your own one day and then where will I be? Do you expect me to sit home and wait for grandchildren to spoil?"

"What's wrong with that, mom?" Sheena protested.

"Oh, shut up, Brat!" Andrew exclaimed as both his mother's and sister's words sunk in. He realized what a selfish attitude he had about her dating relationships with men in general. But he still wasn't ready to consider letting AJ in her life. Maybe Mike and her would be a good pair!

"HEY!" she pouted, crossing her arms and plopping into a chair to sulk. Tami looked on and hid a smile. These two of hers loved each other, but they would never willingly admit it to anyone.

"Mom, did you know that Mike wanted to date you? I think the two of you would make a good pair!" Andrew informed his mother.

"Ew! Mike? He has big ears!" Sheena offered her opinion from the corner of the room.

Tami grinned and wanted to see how they would react to some teasing. She said, "Well…they always say that the size of a man's ears…"

"MOM!" both of her children interrupted at once.

Then Sheena turned to her mother and asked eagerly, "Is that really true?"

"You'll have to wait till you are older to find out, Sheena!" Tami told her.

"But, mom! Dorothy is preggers at my age! She didn't wait to find out!"

"I don't care young lady! You have more sense that Dorothy Travers any day and you know it!"

"How did we get off the subject, mom? I thought we were talking about you dating Mike?" Andrew interrupted.

"No, we weren't, son, you were. The only person that I want to date is AJ and you won't accept that."

"Mike's a standup kind of guy, he knew dad and dad would have approved of him."

"AJ is a standup guy too, Andrew. And your father doesn't need to approve of the men that I am dating since he's gone."

"We know a lot more about Mike, you should try dating him," Andrew insisted.

"I know a lot more about AJ than I do about Mike and I would rather not date at all, than date someone other than AJ."

"Great! That's settled then, don't date at all!" Sheena cheered.

"Okay then, I guess I won't be dating," Tami said.

"Way to go, Brat!" Andrew told his sister.

"Hey! I thought that's what we wanted!" protested Sheena.

"How about I show you what I brought for you?" Tami asked Andrew.

"Sure, mom."

She opened the bag she was carrying and handed him his schoolbooks first and she got just the reaction that she thought she would. He rolled his eyes and sighed. Andrew was much happier about the movies and the candy bars!

As Tami and Sheena chatted with Andrew the doctor came into the room and said, "Young man, you seem to be healing nicely and tomorrow we are going to start you on physical therapy."

"No, I don't want to go down there with the others."

"You have to start, so why not sooner than later."

Just then Bud Roberts came in the room and all eyes turn to him. "Am I interrupting something?" he asked.

"No, we were just trying to talk Andrew into going to physical therapy tomorrow," said Tami.

"You should go, Andrew, it helps to build you upper body's strength which you will need," said Bud. "They will also work on the strength of your other leg. Take it from me you will need all the strength you can get and balance too."

"I met your wife the other day and I'm sorry about breaking your action figure."

"You were hurting at the time, don't worry about it."

"Still, I'm sorry I was hateful and broke it."

"Apology accepted. Now what about this physical therapy they want to start you on? If you are a little nervous I can come over and go down with you the first time."

"You would do that for me?" asked Andrew stunned.

To be continued…