Disclaimer: The only characters I own are the Bateman's. Everyone else is pretty much property of WB.

This story starts just before Matt's birth. I don't know how old Annie was when Matt was born, or how old Eric was, either for that matter so please forgive me any mistakes due to that.

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JuliaBeth



Spring 1980

"Susan." An exhausted 20-year-old Annie Camden spoke to her closest friend and least nosey church lady at the Glen Oaks Community Church where her husband, Eric had just recently started pastoring. For the first time, which meant this was the first time she was a 'preacher's wife' and she just knew those ladies were waiting, watching for her to make a mistake, or to not keep their beautiful parsonage clean enough, or .... SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Am I going to be pregnant forever?"

Susan Bateman laughed and rubbed her own swollen tummy. Though she was quite as far along as

Annie, she knew quite well how miserable the young woman was. While Annie was carring her first child, this was Susan's fourth and last. "Normally, I would say no. That it will be over soon, but being pregnant myself , I think we are," she nodded, affrimatively. "But, once this is all over, and trust me, it will be all over soon, for you at least. After your precious little bundle arrives, I'll still have another six weeks of being like this, but that's not my point. My point is that when this is over, we will have these 2 perfect little boys, who will be best friends, just like thier mommies."

Annie smiled. Susan, her combination best friend and honary big sister always had a way of calming her nerves. Of course the babies were going to be okay, and then, her little Matt, and Susan's Christopher, (Both women being utterly convince they were going to have boys. Susan, from past exprience, she had three other boys, and Annie, just because she wanted a boy so badly.), would be here and perfect. BUT, things don't always go the way they are planned, esspecially where babies are concerned.