Hector walked into the apartment to find Gloria on the phone, "Yes thank you. Yes, we can have everything ready by then. Okay we'll meet with you on Saturday or…" she turned around and saw Hector standing there, "Can I call you back Father? Hector just arrived." Gloria hung up the phone after a few more moments.
"Who was that Gloria?" he asked.
"That was Father Jason, he had good news there's a spot at the church for a wedding due to a cancellation. He wants to meet with us on Saturday to discuss setting it up," said Gloria happily.
"Saturday, yeah I'm free. That's great!" said Hector attempting to kiss her before Gloria stopped him.
"There is one catch though," she said. Hector nodded for her to continue. The date is exactly six months from now."
Hector raised his eyebrows, "Well that's plenty of time to go through all the requirements right?"
"Yes," Gloria nodded in affirmation, "I mean that's not the issue. We just I have to find a dress and send out invitations and the cake and the wedding party…."
"Gloria tranquila!" Hector interrupted her, "We'll get it done. We just need to take it one step at a time."
Gloria nodded. Hector had always been able to calm her down even somehow when they were having their problems, "Okay."
Blake and Tonya pulled up in front of the Sherwood house. Tonya had made sure all of Julia's supplies were ready that way Frank and Denise would be set with her. Blake knocked on the door and Frank answered, "Major," Frank nodded.
"Colonel Sherwood," nodded Blake.
"Blake, I told you, it's Frank," he said.
Blake nodded but he still wasn't comfortable calling his superior by his first name. Blake set the diaper bag down on the floor as Tonya came in with the baby and a cooler, "Okay Julia, you're going to spend a couple of hours with Aunt Denise and Uncle Frank," Tonya cooed at her. She handed Julia to Denise who started cuddling with Julia.
"Happy anniversary by the way," said Denise.
"Thank you," Tonya acknowledged her, "Okay I brought over two packs of diapers, her favorite blanket, her little stuffed rabbit that she likes, her pacifier, her travel crib in case she needs to nap…" Tonya listed, "And I pumped some bottles for her," she said pointing to the cooler.
"For the record, I did remind her that we would only be gone a few hours," said Blake.
Tonya glared at her husband, "And how many diapers and feedings does she go through in a few hours?" Denise chuckled lightly. Jeremy and Molly had gone through a lot of both, "Our cell phone numbers and her pediatrician's number is also in the diaper bag in case of an emergency."
Frank nodded, "She's in good hands with my nurse practitioner wife."
Blake nodded and kissed Julia on the head, "See you in a few hours pumpkin."
Tonya took Julia back from Denise once more, "I love you baby girl," she said and kissed Julia. She handed the baby back to Denise before joining her husband's side.
"Hey Blake, Tonya," said Denise and the couple turned around, "How long is it going to take before you both start talking about the baby?"
They both chuckled, "Don't worry Denise. We'll have plenty to talk about besides the baby," Blake said and they left.
Denise looked at her husband and asked, "How long do you think it'll take?"
"About ten minutes. Max," said Frank.
Cassie looked around her room. It was right next to the bathroom and across the hall from Nicole and Charlie's room. Unfortunately, it was also right next to Nicholas's nursery but at least he was a fairly quiet baby. She decided to head downstairs when she smelled food. She had been driving for a few days to make it to Charleston in a decent amount of time. She went downstairs to find Charlie cooking dinner and preparing a bottle for Nicholas, "Hi Charlie."
Charlie looked over towards Cassie, "Hey Cassie."
Cassie looked around and asked, "Where's Nicole?"
"She should be home from work in a few minutes," said Charlie, "Um, I made lasagna for dinner. I hope you don't mind."
"No lasagna's fine," said Cassie and her phone rang. Cassie looked down to see who it was and she smiled when she saw the caller ID, "Hey honey," she said happily stepping away from Charlie.
Nicole walked in the door to find her cousin talking on her phone. Cassie waved a little at Nicole but she didn't want to end her conversation.
Nicole walked over and kissed Charlie, "Hey honey," she said.
"Hi," whispered Charlie kissing her back.
"Who's she talking to?" asked Nicole, "Is she talking to her parents?"
"I don't think so. She answered it 'Hey honey'," said Charlie.
"Okay, I love you too," said Cassie and hung up the phone, only now realizing that Charlie and Nicole had heard most of the conversation. The couple didn't say anything and Nicole quietly got Nicholas from his playpen to feed him his bottle, "How much of that did you hear?" asked Cassie.
"Only some of it?" said Nicole.
"Yeah it was just someone making sure I was okay," said Cassie.
"Sounded like someone special," said Charlie.
Cassie nodded, "Yeah," she sighed softly.
"Mom do you think we can go the Orioles game next week?" asked David crawling onto his parent's bed as Roland prepared lesson plans for his class and Joan worked on stuff for the track team.
"We'll have to see dude," said Roland.
"Please they're playing the Nats!" said David, "It's a huge game."
"Which means the tickets have probably already sold. The Nationals aren't that far," said Joan.
"Come on Mom, you know it'll be a great series. We already missed the opportunity to see the Bears play the Ravens," said David.
Roland and Joan looked at each other and said, "We'll look into it. But no promises David," said Joan.
"Thanks Mom, thanks Dad," said David.
Holly answered the phone when it rang. She picked up the receiver and said, "Truman residence."
"Hey Holly, guess what? I'm coming home."