"Running late this morning aren't we?" Baby turned around to see her best friend Hilary standing beside her.

"Unbelievable morning as usual." Baby said as she fixed herself a cup of coffee.

"You look tired. Everything okay?" Hilary asked her.

"Yeah, just trying to burn the candle at both ends I guess." Baby said blowing on her coffee to cool it off.

"Well don't forget its parent-teacher night tomorrow night." She reminded Baby.

"Oh, I did forget. I will have to find a sitter for Josie. I can't believe I forgot about that." Baby said giving herself a slap on the wrist in her mind.

"Just ask Renee. You know she will keep Josie for you." Hilary reminded her.

Baby, Renee, and Hilary had all been friend since Baby moved here a couple of months ago. You don't find friends like this often.

"I will call her at lunch break." Baby glanced down at her watch. "Ten minutes till the bell. I will meet you at recess."

Baby headed off to meet her class.

Baby loved teaching. Even though she had only been doing it a couple of months she felt like that was what she was meant to do in life, make a difference in a child's life. She taught third grade of about twenty students.

"You get in touch with Renee?" Hilary asked as her and Baby sat down to eat in the teachers lounge.

"Yeah, of course it was no problem." Baby said as she opened her soda.

"Didn't figure it would be." Hilary said as she examined her school fixed lunch. "This looks horrible."

"When is school lunch ever good?" Baby had always brought her some type of sandwich and chips.

"Josie adjusting to kindergarten okay?" Hilary asked Baby.

"Oh, man Hilary, she is growing up before my very eyes." Baby said as she talked about her pride and joy. "But, yeah, she is doing well."

"Time to have another one." Hilary told Baby with a smirk on her face. "Just got to find the right man."

The right man? Do they exist? The right man for Baby remained back in the catskills at Kellerman's or who knows, Johnny could not even be there. Six years is a long time to be away from the "one". But, she had to realize that her love was left in the past and she would experience it again one day.

"It will be a while before I have another child." Baby told her. "I have the rest of my life to have children."

"That is true. You had Josie at what age?" Hilary asked as she tried to remember.

"Eighteen." Baby said as she remembered that amazing day. "I was still a kid myself."

"Why don't you ever talk about Josie's daddy?" Hilary had always wanted to ask but had always been afraid too. "As close at we are you have never told me about him."

Baby had never breathed a word to Hilary or even Renee about Johnny. She just kept it bottled up inside, bottled up in her heart. Maybe it was time to bring him out in the open to her.

"His name is Johnny." Baby started as she sighed.

"Where is he?" Hilary asked noticing the mood change in Baby.

"That I am not sure about. I haven't seen him in six years." Baby looked at Hilary. "He doesn't know I got pregnant."

"You never told him?" Hilary could not believe her ears.

"I couldn't bring myself to do it. It was all so long ago." Baby said sipping on her soda.

"I can sense you still care about him." She said noticing the glow on Baby's face.

"Oh, there is no doubt about that." Baby took a deep breath before continuing. "I met him in the summer of '63. I went with my family to Kellerman's and he was a dance instructor there. He didn't like me very much at first, but I guess I kind of grew on him."

Hilary watched as Baby began to grin from ear to ear. "Go on."

"Well, it's all a really long story and I don't think we have time for it all." Baby said as she glanced down at her watch.

"I will gladly hear the super short version." Hilary said pushing Baby to continue.

"Needless to say one night while I was there I got pregnant and I didn't know till a couple of months later when I went off to school. I never heard from Johnny after I left so I figured he wouldn't care he had a child on the way." Baby tried to make it short and sweet.

"Will you ever tell him?" Hilary asked as Josie's kindergarten teacher Ms. Sherry Daniels approached their table.

"Baby, Josie seems to not be feeling well. I believe she might have a fever." Sherry told Baby with a worried look in her eyes. "She hasn't seemed herself all morning."

"Really? She seemed fine this morning. I need to go check on her." Baby said as she balled her lunch up and threw it in the trash can. "Hilary I will be right back.

Baby walked with Sherry down to the kindergarten wing. Josie seemed perfectly fine this morning wonder what could be the problem.

"She looks pale." Sherry said as they reached the room door. "She didn't want to go to lunch."

Baby walked in and searched the room for Josie. She looked toward the back of the room and seen her lying on her blue sleeping mat. "Josie."

As Josie heard her mom's voice she raised her head. "Mommy?"

"I am here sweetie." Baby knelt down and pulled Josie into her arms and the minute she did she could feel how hot Josie's skin was. "She is burning up."

"I felt like she had a fever." Sherry said to Baby.

"You feel sick?" Baby asked Josie as Josie shook her head yes in response. "I better get her to a doctor."

"Here I will get her things." Sherry said as she walked to get Josie's back-pack.

"It hurts when I move my arms." Josie said as she buried her head in her mom's chest.

"Your arms hurt?" Baby said confused by the comment.

"Just when I move them." Josie replied quietly.

Baby didn't quite understand why Josie's arms would hurt when she moved them. All she knew was she needed to take Josie on to the doctor and needed to get there fast.

Baby stopped by the principles office and explained her situation. They were able to get a sub in the room before the students returned back to class.

Baby wasted no time to get to the doctors office. Luckily her doctor's office was just right around the corner. She glanced over at Josie who was curled up in a ball in the passenger seat.

"Almost to the doctor honey." Baby told her as she rubbed Josie's arm.

"I don't like doctors." Josie said in a soft voice.

"I know you don't honey but he will make you feel all better. Then after we leave there we will take you home and put you in bed so you can watch some cartoons. How about that?" Baby asked as she pulled into the parking lot of the doctor's office.

Josie responded with a half-hearted "okay."

Baby finally found a parking place and grabbed Josie up in her arm and headed into the office. There didn't seem to be anyone in the waiting room so Baby hoped she could get Josie right on in.

"Can I help you?" The lady at the front desk asked.

"Yes mamn, my name is Baby Houseman and this is my daughter Josie. She seems to be running a fever and complains of her arms hurting. Is there anyway we can get in to see the doctor?"

"I am sorry Ms. Houseman but the doctor has left for the day. Perhaps the emergency room would be better. I can call and let them know you are on the way." The nurse offered.

"Thank you that would be great." Baby told the lady.

"The Children's Hospital of New York is about fifteen minutes from here. I will call them now." The nurse said picking up the phone. "Do you know where it is?"

"Yes, thank so much." Baby said as she headed out the door.