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Ch5



For the next couple of days James stayed locked in his room. He did let himself near any human contact reserving himself to his room, and doing nothing to get out of that state. When the phone rang he would simply pick it up and soon after drop it at the side. When any of the hotel workers would come to his door to inquire after him, he would simply half open the door and tell them to leave. Mary and Rich had come to check on him also but soon turned away, as James had asked people at the front desk to tell those who enquired after him that he was simply out. Though he did not have many friends, he knew that the O'Connors would most likely go looking for him after not seeing him for the last three days. James' trick worked for the first couple of times on the O'Connors, but when they saw a pattern they simply had to find out what was going on, as well as inform him on some interesting news.

Both James and Mary left the front desk person with words in mouth as he tried to explain once again that Mr. O'Connell was not in. They went directly for James' room and began to knock. As James had no idea it was the O'Connors he did as he normally did when the hotel staff went to check on him. He half opened the door.

"I told you people that I am fine. I don't need checking up…"

"James, this has gone on for far too long. Now you will open up that door and talk to us," said Rich with a serious tone.

"What are you two doing here? Just get out of here. I will call you both later."

"You will not. You will open up this door. I swear if you don't do this, Rich is going to break down the door. You don't want to see him mad now do you?"

The thought of Rich trying to break the door brought a smile to James' face. He couldn't imagine his small built and good-tempered friend doing anything forceful like that. James tried to hide the smile but was caught by Mary.

"I see that smile back on your face. Don't try to hide it. Now are you going to open the door?"

James finally opened the door letting his friends in. Once inside, Mary went directly for the window to open up the curtains.

"You are absolutely evil, how could you keep us like this. We have been so worried about you," after she had opened the window she began to clean about the room and inquired whether he had eaten. To which James said he had but soon found that his friends didn't believe him.

"We are going to take you out to have a bite. You need food and fresh air and that is what you will get. Now get ready. And after that we will tell you our news"

"What news?"

"Nope. You are getting nothing out of us, until you are fed and outside. Now get going."

Seeing the determined look on his friend's faces made him do as he was told. They quickly left and began to eat at a close by restaurant. James had no idea how hungry he had been until the food arrived at the table. He ate it all so quickly that afterwards he felt as if he were going to be sick. They finished their meals and soon after had desert.

"Now will you two tell me what this news is?"

"Well, there are two things we must tell you," said Rich as he grabbed a hold of his wife's hand, she in turn smiled towards him and then towards James.

"Oh, I see this is really good from the looks on your faces. Ok, now go on what is it?"

"Well, the first is that Mary and I are going to be parents."

"That is fantastic! I am so happy for both you. You are going to be great parents," said James cheerfully to his friends.

"We hope to be. It feels so amazing. I've never felt that I could feel as happy as I do at this moment," said James happily.

"As do I," said Mary as and Rich shared a brief kiss.

"Kids…Kids," said James smiling at the loving affection being shown between his young companions. "So tell me what is this second news that you have for me"

"Oh, right."

"I want to tell him," said Mary in a baby voice.

"Alright, you tell him"

"Well, yesterday when we went to the doctors office there were quite a lot of people there. There was a big commotion because a couple of the babies that were there started crying. WEE WEE WEE, you know how it is."

"Yes I think I could imagine"

"Anyways, so as they were calling our names another couple stood up, the woman looked kind of familiar. But anyways, we couldn't quite hear over the crying babes, so we just sat there. Until Rich here thought that they were taking a really long time with our results so he got up. I told him that they weren't calling us but you know how it is."

"Come on woman just get with the story," Rich exhaled and just gave Mary a look.

"Fine, I'll rush myself. It'll be all your fault if in the end he doesn't get it because of all the mumbling that I will have to do to do as you please."

"Oh, fine just tell it what ever way you like, just make sure its over today I would really like to sleep in my bed tonight."

"You keep being such a meanie and you won't be sleeping in your bed tonight."

"Children! Can't you both just…" said James trying to calm the excited couple.

"Ok, sorry but we would appreciate you not to call us children. We are an adult couple on the way to becoming parents," said Rich as James nodded and smiled their way.

"Now can you just continue with the story? So he went up to the receptionist and then…"

"Yes, well then the lady said that she had our results and gave Rich an envelope, I thought that they would have us speak with the doctor but it seems that our doctor had been called away and that his assistant was taking over, and since all we were there for was my results then they just gave us was the…"

"Envelope," cut in James

"Yes, the envelope. When we checked the results it said that indeed we were expecting, at which point crazy one there grabbed a hold of me, and started yelling like a madman. And everyone started staring, which was kind of embarrassing, but I didn't really care cause I was also very excited. But then the nurse gave us an odd look and asked us to go to her desk. At that moment I thought that we were just going to be told to leave the office and never to return again," as Mary continued to excitedly tell her tale Rich and James exchanged glances of will she just get to the point.

"She asked for our results back, and then we asked her why, and realized that the other couple that had stood before us were also by the desk. She then said that she had given us the wrong results by mistake; at that point I thought my heart was being taken out of my chest. And then Rich here told her that the paper in fact had our names on it. But then when he took a good look at it, he realized that it wasn't our name. Then the nurse grabbed the paper from my hand, and the couple that was there handed back our real results, the lady had this sincere smile and congratulated us. Something that I did not understand until I finally had the real results in my hands. At which point we reacted the same as before forgetting all that was around us. And when we finally got ourselves a little less crazed, we were going to congratulate the couple that had stood next to us, but then they were already gone. So as Rich and I ware walking towards the door, we talked about how familiar that lady looked and where we had possibly seen her, which took us a while to figure out. Then it hit us, she was the lady from the museum and when we remembered the name and the confusion with the results, O' Connor-O'Connell. It was your son and his wife. And now you are going to be a grandpa again. Isn't that just the greatest!!!"

End Of Ch5

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