Thursday Dec. 16, 1999 9 days before Christmas------
-------Nine Ladies Dancing------
Eric gets up earlier than usual, gets dressed and goes to have breakfast at the restaurant that is close to the church while Annie wakes up then goes downstairs to see Eric is gone, looks all over the house gets a little worried but when the kids come down she makes breakfast.
"Mary, would you mind taking me to the library after school and picking me up?" Lucy asks when they both sit down.
"If it's okay with mom, I will." Mary says as Ruthie and Simon sit down as well.
"I asked her already." Lucy says as Annie puts the pancakes on the dish on the table.
"Okay." Mary says then Matt comes over to see if he could help with the twins. Lucy helps Ruthie with her plate as Simon and Mary eat.
"Would you mind seeing if they are awake and if they are, please change them?" Annie asks.
"Okay mom." Matt says then goes upstairs to see if his youngest brothers were awake.
Ten minutes later the kids leave, Matt comes down to tell her they are awake, changed and he dressed them with them in his arms.
"Thanks Matt." Annie says as she puts David in his high chair, then Matt puts Sam in his.
Annie then sits down to eat while feeding Sam on her right side and David on her left as Matt did the dishes. Then the phone rings and Annie picks it up as Matt who was finished with the dishes was feeding the twins since they were almost done while Annie went in the living room to talk.
"Hello?"
"Hi. Eric is interested in me and if you want him safe, you must leave him." Catherine says.
"What? Who is this?"
"Never mind who this is, just leave him if you don't want him to be hurt." Catherine says then hangs up.
Annie walks back to the kitchen, hangs up the phone then sees that Matt had cleaned up the twins since they were done then offered to watch them if she wanted to do some stuff which she said okay to. Annie then goes upstairs to get dressed then tells Matt she is going to run some errands.
Meanwhile-
Catherine is outside the church parking lot hanging up the phone from talking to Annie then goes in, sees the sanctuary doors are open then sees Eric. Eric is in the sanctuary praying sitting on the pews towards the aisle when Catherine comes and sneaks up on him, she puts his arms around his neck then starts to kiss his ear. He turns around to apologize for the way he acted last night then he sees it's Catherine, then jumps up.
"I told you! I am not interested!!" Eric yells.
Catherine then moves around to the same side of the pew as Eric while she comes towards him telling him, "Come on, I know you want me Eric. I can see it in your eyes."
They are interrupted by Lou who walks in then as Catherine leaves she says something to Eric.
"Your wife is leaving you, she told me." Catherine says as she walks out as Lou and Eric's mouths are open in disbelief.
"What was that?" Lou asked concerned.
"Lou, you got to help me! She's been coming on to me for the past several days now! I told her I wasn't interested and am happily married but she won't leave me alone! What should I do?"
"You should get a restraining order put on her." Lou responds.
"I don't want to go to those extremes but.."
"I don't know Eric, it almost sounded as she was threatening you and your family." Lou said.
Lou then goes to his office then Eric goes to his to his office but sees Annie was there then they both talk.
"Hi."
"Hey. What are you doing here? Who is watching Sam and David?" Eric asked as he gave Annie a hug as she gave him one too then they sit on the couch.
"Oh, Matt is watching them. I um.. got an interesting call awhile ago."
"You did?" Eric asked confused.
"Um, some lady called me to tell me that you wanted to leave me. Eric, I don't know what got into you last night and I'm sorry if I made you so angry but do you really feel this way?"
"No, I don't want to leave you. I'm sorry for the way I over reacted. Catherine might have been the one who called you because she's been pretty much harassing me and I've told her that I am not interested." Eric says.
"So what are you going to do Eric?"
"I'm going to go call Detective Michaels and see if he can get me a restraining order against her then we'll see what happens from there." Eric says as they both went to the phone and made the call.
Then a few minutes later Detective Michaels calls Eric and tells him the order has been given to her and they will keep an eye on her as well. Annie then calls Matt to see if he has classes which he doesn't then tells him that she's going to go to lunch with Eric and will be home a little later. Matt tells her okay then after he hangs up he feeds the twins and eats then after he finishes up, cleans up the kitchen and plays with them in the living room.
During lunch recess at Walter Reed-
Simon has his lunch when he sees Deena being kissed then the guy who kissed her leaves her and walks up to him.
"Deena says she wants to break up with you. She's mine, Camden" Joe, who is about the same age as Deena and Simon says then laughs as he walks away.
Deena stood there shocked as to what happened but didn't see Joe go up to Simon then Simon walks away a little angry and hurt. He didn't have lunch since he wasn't hungry after seeing Deena get kissed then as he walked to his locker the bell rang and the students went to class. Deena tried to go see Simon since her friend had told her about him seeing Joe kiss her.
After Annie and Eric have lunch, he goes back to work, Annie goes home to see the Matt asleep on the couch as the twins were in the play pen sleeping, Annie wakes him up to find out he had been asleep for an hour then he left to go do some homework and Annie started watching some TV. Few hours later Mary picks up Simon, Ruthie and takes Lucy to the library then Mary and her two siblings go home. Simon goes upstairs to his room, closes the door then lays on his bed with his chin on the foot of the bed, Mary helped Ruthie with her homework then an hour before dinner was ready, Eric got home. Lucy called a half hour later to say she was ready since she got help for her class and Mary went to pick her up and then when they came home dinner was ready.
"Simon? What are we doing? Dinner's ready." Ruthie tells her brother as he was moping.
"I'm not doing anything! I'm not hungry! Now leave me alone!"
"Simon!" Mary yelled at her brother.
"What!?"
"Don't be so mean. She was telling you dinner was ready." Mary says.
"Mary, shut up." Simon says then Mary leaves to eat.
"What's holding up Simon?" Annie asks as Eric feeds Sam, Mary feeds David.
"He says he's not hungry." Mary says as she wiped David's mouth.
"I'll have a plate for later if he gets hungry." Annie says as she eats with everyone else but Simon.
Thirty minutes later everyone finished as Annie took the twins upstairs with Lucy's help to give them a bath, Mary and Ruthie were doing their homework when Simon came downstairs while Eric was cleaning the kitchen.
"Hey. You hungry?" Eric asks.
"Yeah." Simon says as he sits down while Eric put his plate in the microwave.
"So how is school going?" Eric asked as he finished the dishes when the microwave beeped.
"School is going good." Simon said as Eric put the plate down in front of his son and gave him a glass of milk then sits next to his son.
"So you excited for Christmas?"
"Yeah, who isn't?" Simon says as he takes a few bites.
After Simon was done, Eric had put the dishes in the dishwasher then started to watch TV then fell asleep while Annie finished up on giving the twins a bath, she and Lucy were getting them ready for bed. Few minutes later after everyone goes to bed, Annie takes a bath then after she was done she got ready and went downstairs to see what Eric was up to. She saw he was asleep so she woke him up then she told him that she was going to bed, he got up, turned off the TV then after turning the light off they both went to bed after putting their sleep clothes on.
Author's notes.
To the reviewer who asked about Sam and David: They are about a year old.
Author's notes.
I'm afraid I have lost the motivation to revise and post the rest of 12 Days of Christmas due to the fact I was working my butt off on my research paper to get it done on time, which I did.
There is another Camden Christmas story that was revised and is posted, will be finished by December 23 since it's short.
This will be the last chapter for this story.
-------Nine Ladies Dancing------
Eric gets up earlier than usual, gets dressed and goes to have breakfast at the restaurant that is close to the church while Annie wakes up then goes downstairs to see Eric is gone, looks all over the house gets a little worried but when the kids come down she makes breakfast.
"Mary, would you mind taking me to the library after school and picking me up?" Lucy asks when they both sit down.
"If it's okay with mom, I will." Mary says as Ruthie and Simon sit down as well.
"I asked her already." Lucy says as Annie puts the pancakes on the dish on the table.
"Okay." Mary says then Matt comes over to see if he could help with the twins. Lucy helps Ruthie with her plate as Simon and Mary eat.
"Would you mind seeing if they are awake and if they are, please change them?" Annie asks.
"Okay mom." Matt says then goes upstairs to see if his youngest brothers were awake.
Ten minutes later the kids leave, Matt comes down to tell her they are awake, changed and he dressed them with them in his arms.
"Thanks Matt." Annie says as she puts David in his high chair, then Matt puts Sam in his.
Annie then sits down to eat while feeding Sam on her right side and David on her left as Matt did the dishes. Then the phone rings and Annie picks it up as Matt who was finished with the dishes was feeding the twins since they were almost done while Annie went in the living room to talk.
"Hello?"
"Hi. Eric is interested in me and if you want him safe, you must leave him." Catherine says.
"What? Who is this?"
"Never mind who this is, just leave him if you don't want him to be hurt." Catherine says then hangs up.
Annie walks back to the kitchen, hangs up the phone then sees that Matt had cleaned up the twins since they were done then offered to watch them if she wanted to do some stuff which she said okay to. Annie then goes upstairs to get dressed then tells Matt she is going to run some errands.
Meanwhile-
Catherine is outside the church parking lot hanging up the phone from talking to Annie then goes in, sees the sanctuary doors are open then sees Eric. Eric is in the sanctuary praying sitting on the pews towards the aisle when Catherine comes and sneaks up on him, she puts his arms around his neck then starts to kiss his ear. He turns around to apologize for the way he acted last night then he sees it's Catherine, then jumps up.
"I told you! I am not interested!!" Eric yells.
Catherine then moves around to the same side of the pew as Eric while she comes towards him telling him, "Come on, I know you want me Eric. I can see it in your eyes."
They are interrupted by Lou who walks in then as Catherine leaves she says something to Eric.
"Your wife is leaving you, she told me." Catherine says as she walks out as Lou and Eric's mouths are open in disbelief.
"What was that?" Lou asked concerned.
"Lou, you got to help me! She's been coming on to me for the past several days now! I told her I wasn't interested and am happily married but she won't leave me alone! What should I do?"
"You should get a restraining order put on her." Lou responds.
"I don't want to go to those extremes but.."
"I don't know Eric, it almost sounded as she was threatening you and your family." Lou said.
Lou then goes to his office then Eric goes to his to his office but sees Annie was there then they both talk.
"Hi."
"Hey. What are you doing here? Who is watching Sam and David?" Eric asked as he gave Annie a hug as she gave him one too then they sit on the couch.
"Oh, Matt is watching them. I um.. got an interesting call awhile ago."
"You did?" Eric asked confused.
"Um, some lady called me to tell me that you wanted to leave me. Eric, I don't know what got into you last night and I'm sorry if I made you so angry but do you really feel this way?"
"No, I don't want to leave you. I'm sorry for the way I over reacted. Catherine might have been the one who called you because she's been pretty much harassing me and I've told her that I am not interested." Eric says.
"So what are you going to do Eric?"
"I'm going to go call Detective Michaels and see if he can get me a restraining order against her then we'll see what happens from there." Eric says as they both went to the phone and made the call.
Then a few minutes later Detective Michaels calls Eric and tells him the order has been given to her and they will keep an eye on her as well. Annie then calls Matt to see if he has classes which he doesn't then tells him that she's going to go to lunch with Eric and will be home a little later. Matt tells her okay then after he hangs up he feeds the twins and eats then after he finishes up, cleans up the kitchen and plays with them in the living room.
During lunch recess at Walter Reed-
Simon has his lunch when he sees Deena being kissed then the guy who kissed her leaves her and walks up to him.
"Deena says she wants to break up with you. She's mine, Camden" Joe, who is about the same age as Deena and Simon says then laughs as he walks away.
Deena stood there shocked as to what happened but didn't see Joe go up to Simon then Simon walks away a little angry and hurt. He didn't have lunch since he wasn't hungry after seeing Deena get kissed then as he walked to his locker the bell rang and the students went to class. Deena tried to go see Simon since her friend had told her about him seeing Joe kiss her.
After Annie and Eric have lunch, he goes back to work, Annie goes home to see the Matt asleep on the couch as the twins were in the play pen sleeping, Annie wakes him up to find out he had been asleep for an hour then he left to go do some homework and Annie started watching some TV. Few hours later Mary picks up Simon, Ruthie and takes Lucy to the library then Mary and her two siblings go home. Simon goes upstairs to his room, closes the door then lays on his bed with his chin on the foot of the bed, Mary helped Ruthie with her homework then an hour before dinner was ready, Eric got home. Lucy called a half hour later to say she was ready since she got help for her class and Mary went to pick her up and then when they came home dinner was ready.
"Simon? What are we doing? Dinner's ready." Ruthie tells her brother as he was moping.
"I'm not doing anything! I'm not hungry! Now leave me alone!"
"Simon!" Mary yelled at her brother.
"What!?"
"Don't be so mean. She was telling you dinner was ready." Mary says.
"Mary, shut up." Simon says then Mary leaves to eat.
"What's holding up Simon?" Annie asks as Eric feeds Sam, Mary feeds David.
"He says he's not hungry." Mary says as she wiped David's mouth.
"I'll have a plate for later if he gets hungry." Annie says as she eats with everyone else but Simon.
Thirty minutes later everyone finished as Annie took the twins upstairs with Lucy's help to give them a bath, Mary and Ruthie were doing their homework when Simon came downstairs while Eric was cleaning the kitchen.
"Hey. You hungry?" Eric asks.
"Yeah." Simon says as he sits down while Eric put his plate in the microwave.
"So how is school going?" Eric asked as he finished the dishes when the microwave beeped.
"School is going good." Simon said as Eric put the plate down in front of his son and gave him a glass of milk then sits next to his son.
"So you excited for Christmas?"
"Yeah, who isn't?" Simon says as he takes a few bites.
After Simon was done, Eric had put the dishes in the dishwasher then started to watch TV then fell asleep while Annie finished up on giving the twins a bath, she and Lucy were getting them ready for bed. Few minutes later after everyone goes to bed, Annie takes a bath then after she was done she got ready and went downstairs to see what Eric was up to. She saw he was asleep so she woke him up then she told him that she was going to bed, he got up, turned off the TV then after turning the light off they both went to bed after putting their sleep clothes on.
Author's notes.
To the reviewer who asked about Sam and David: They are about a year old.
Author's notes.
I'm afraid I have lost the motivation to revise and post the rest of 12 Days of Christmas due to the fact I was working my butt off on my research paper to get it done on time, which I did.
There is another Camden Christmas story that was revised and is posted, will be finished by December 23 since it's short.
This will be the last chapter for this story.