Meanwhile at Walter Reed—
Ruthie went into her locker, opened it, got her books turned around while closing it, she saw a handsome boy with red hair. He was muscular built and about five feet tall. Ruthie looked at him while he put his stuff in his locker then closed it as he walked to class with his back towards her as she thought about him. She had been falling for him since the school came back from Christmas break but she had been too chicken to go up to him.
"I have to find out his name." Ruthie said as she snapped out of her day dream since the bell rang and went to class before the tardy bell rang.
After class she went to her locker, seeing that red haired boy again as he looked at her then she turned away towards her locker that was opened then heard him and his friends walk towards the corner of the hallway. They stopped just to the left across from Ruthie talking as one of his friends had said his name, Eric. They kept talking as Ruthie pretended to keep looking through her locker.
"Sorry, I can't go to the party tonight. I promised my brother that I would go to his game and well, he goes to my football games in the community football league and I feel that I should do the same for him." Eric said.
"What grade is Peter in?" Luke asked.
"This is his senior year. But he has a pretty good team, do you guys know who Simon Camden is?" Eric responded then asked.
"Yeah. He is Reverend Camden's son, why?" Luke said then asked, Ruthie froze when her dad and brother were talked about.
"I remember I was at Peter's house when Mr. Camden came over since Peter's parents wanted to help with the funeral cost for Happy and he just felt really bad that she died."
"Yeah, I heard about that too. It was no one's fault. It was something that was undetected and we didn't notice any standing water where we fished but later we found out it could have been the water we were fishing at." Luke said then they walked towards their classes which were just a few doors down.
Ruthie breathed a sigh of relief as she closed her locker door and went to class.
Two hours before lunch time at the Camden household—
Eric is in the kitchen getting juice cups for the boys who woke him up since they were thirsty. He went upstairs to their room, as he gave them juice, he noticed the double doors were open and looked in there to see Simon was asleep.
"Simon, wake up." Eric said as he shook his son on the shoulder then did it again.
"What is it dad?" Simon asked groggily.
"Why aren't you in school and what time did you get home?"
"I got home about fifteen minutes to ten and I'm not feeling good. I went to the nurse and had a temperature of 99.0 degrees." Simon said while Eric felt his son's forehead.
"Well, you are warm but there might be no game after all cause it is raining."
"It is?" Simon asked in surprise.
"Yep."
"Go back to sleep." Eric says as he goes back into the twins room and they had finished drinking their juice.
Eric took their juice, felt their forehead which was normal then tucked them back to bed and went downstairs where Annie was just coming in through the kitchen with the groceries.
"Hey, need any help?" Eric asked as Annie put the bags on the counter.
"Can you go and get the groceries in the car?"
"Sure." Eric says as he goes outside to get the grocery bags.
Eric helped Annie put the groceries away then when she came back to the kitchen she asks about Simon.
"Did you know that Simon is home?" Annie asked confused.
"Yeah, just saw him before you got home when I brought the twins their juice. He's not feeling good and has a fever. The nurse took his temperature and it's at 99.0 Fahrenheit and his forehead is warm but um.. I haven't taken his temperature. Did you want me to?"
"Eric! He is eighteen years old. He can take his own temperature." Annie responded a little annoyed.
While Eric went into the living room to watch TV, Annie went upstairs to check on the twins, she felt their forehead which was normal and then went into Simon's room and felt his forehead which was a little warm. He woke up since Annie felt his forehead then asked him how he felt.
"I'm feeling better." Simon said then Annie went into the bathroom to get the thermometer then came back in the room.
"Here, put this under your tongue." Annie said as Simon took the thermometer in his hand and put it in his mouth.
A few minutes later Annie tells Simon to take out the thermometer and takes the end that was not in his mouth, turns on the light that was on his night stand and looks at it in the light.
"Well, you have a temperature of 98.5. Do you watch chicken soup?"
"Sure." Simon says then Annie cleans the thermometer and puts it away then checks on the twins.
"Hi boys. How are you feeling?" Annie says.
"Hi, momma. We feel better." Sam and David reply.
"That's good, I'm going—"Annie says then as he hears the car engine, she walks to the window and looks out seeing Eric is driving away in the rain. She then finishes what she was telling them, "I'm going to bring you some chicken soup in a little bit, okay."
"Okay, momma." The boys respond as Annie feels their forehead and then leaves.
Awhile later, the coach called Simon to leave a message that there will be no baseball played which the Camdens and those who were supposed to play knew that it would be canceled. Annie then started making lunch while wondering what her husband was up to.
A/N: Okay.. I am too lazy to change the name of the character who has the same name as the dad.. LOL
SORRY!!
