Chapter 61
"Krystal, I don't think it's any of your business. I don't ask you how Tom's mustache feels touching your body do I?" AJ calmly replied knowing there was nothing going on between the two of them.
"Tom and I are getting married! What are your intentions towards my sister?" Krystal shouted at him walking toward the couch.
"I love your sister, Krystal. I'd marry her tomorrow if she'd have me, but she says she's dying and doesn't want to be loved," he replied, hoping to calm her down.
"She's dying and can't marry you, but she's still good enough to sleep with? You bastard!" she cried and slapped him.
"It's not like you think, Krystal! I promise you, I love her, but she won't even try to live, much less consider marrying me," he replied rubbing his jaw where she hit him. She might be
small, but she could sure pack a punch.
"I don't want to talk to you anymore - get out of this house and stay out," she ran crying into the bedroom and slammed the door.
"Tom, it's the truth I swear it. How do I make Krystal understand? She's under my chain of command and if she did this in the office I'd have to court-martial her. Go talk to her and try to calm her down, please."
"I know you mean it, Buddy, but you have to understand how protective of her sister she is! Why don't you go and get Krista now and I'll try and calm her down before you two get back. If Krista were to tell her the same thing you just did, Krystal might listen. You asked Krista to marry you and she turned you down?" Tom asked astonished that his friend had fallen so fast.
"I told her I loved her and if she'd have the transplant we could raise the twins together. I
assumed she took it as a proposal. Guess it didn't sound like much of one though did it, Tom?" he looked guilty at his friend.
"Wow, man, no wonder you have such a rotten track record with women if you think THAT was a proposal! Since Krista has agreed to the transplant now, maybe you should ask her for real?"
"Do you think she'd have me? I mean look at me and then look at how beautiful she is carrying our children," he smiled just thinking of her naked beauty.
"Krystal loves me, they both seem to go for old bald guys. Ask her, you dufus!" Tom laughed using the twins pet ridicule name for his buddy. It just seemed to fit the occasion!
"Dufus? How appropriate for an Admiral. I think you're right - I'll give it a try, but I need to make it somewhere romantic. I need to do something special so she'll know how much I really do love her," he said thoughtfully. "Have you got any ideas?"
"I got down on one knee and just asked Krystal. She told me that all she needed to hear was that I loved her and wanted her to be my wife. Try the direct approach!" Tom suggested.
"Yes, but you're not dealing with a woman that's sure she's dying. But I'll give it a try, and then carry her off as soon as the transplant's over with. The caveman approach use to always work."
"You might want to remember that your cavewoman is pregnant! Be gentle with her AJ, her hormones are probably in an uproar with the pregnancy let alone with her illness."
"I will Tom, after all I love her like crazy. I never thought I could love a woman the way I love her. A little late in life to be finding that out, now isn't it?" AJ smiled and left.
"Its never to late to find love, old buddy," he told AJ as he walked him to the door. Then he went to try and calm Krystal. He found her in the guest room. "Darling?"
"Is he still here?" she asked sobbing.
"No, he left to go get Krista. Krystal, AJ is in love with your sister, just as I love you!" he told her as he came and sat down on the bed next to her.
To be continued…