A month had passed. There was an awkwardness between AJ and John now. John knew he had to prove to AJ that she could trust him if he wanted her to come back to him. AJ had been throwing up for the passed two weeks. She was in her hotel bathroom. It was morning she was in the bathroom puking.

"Mommy are you ok?" Halley asked from the other side of the door.

"I'm fine sweetheart." She flushed the toilet brushed her teeth and opened the door. She sat on the couch.

"Jessica mommy's sick."

"No mommy's ok." The twins sat on opposite sides of her.

"What's wrong with mommy?" Jessica asked.

"She was making throw up noises in the bathroom." Halley said.

"Is it your tummy mommy?"

"Girls listen to me." AJ said. "Mommy is fine ok?" "Now you have to aunt Kaitlyn's for awhile."

"Why?" Jessica asked.

"Mommy has to go somewhere."

"Where?" Halley asked.

"No where you need to know." "Come on both of you get some toys."

She took the girls to Kaitlyn's room. She knocked on the door. Kaitlyn answered.

"Hi." Kaitlyn said.

"Hi."

"Hi girls."

"Hi." They both said. AJ turned to the girls.

"I'll be back in a few hours." AJ said. "Be good for aunt Kaitlyn."

Later that night at the arena AJ knocked on John's locker room door. He answered.

"Hi." AJ said.

"Hi."

"Can I come in?"

"Yeah." She went in and sat on the couch. He sat next to her. "I'm glad you're here I wanna talk to you."

"You go first."

"Alright." "You say you don't trust me." "So what if I slowly rebuild your trust in me?"

"How are you gonna do that?"

"Let's go on a few dates." "Take things nice and slow and I promise I'll show you that you can trust me again."

"I'm willing to try it."

"We never do anything together with the kids unless it's there birthdays or Christmas or something like that." "Let's do something together with the kids."

"Ok." "I have something to tell you."

"What?"

"I went to the doctor today." "I'm pregnant."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"This is great." "Do the girls know?"

"No." "I thought we could tell them together."

"Ok."

"I already told Stephanie." "Oh and when we do go out we're not having sex."

"I know."

"And just because we're not having sex doesn't mean you'll go have it with someone else right?"

"AJ."

"That's a fair question."

"No I'm not gonna do that."

"Ok."

A few days later AJ and the twins were at home. They were waiting for John to get there. There was a knock at the door. AJ answered it. They sat on the couch with the girls.

"Halley, Jessica, mommy and daddy have something to tell you." AJ said. "Girls mommy's gonna have a baby."

"Doesn't it need a daddy first?" Jessica asked.

"I'm it's daddy Jessica." John said.

"Oh." "Can you tell it to be a boy?" "I want a brother."

"Me to." Halley said.

"We can't tell it be a boy." AJ said. "It might be though."

"Mommy, daddy I have a question." Jessica said.

"What's your question?"

"We have friends and there mommies and daddies live in the same house." "You and daddy don't." "Why not?"

"We used to before you were born." John said. "See daddy's a dummy and I made your mommy mad." "That's why we don't live in the same house."

"Can't you just tell mommy you're sorry?"

"Sometimes grown up problems can't be fixed by saying sorry."

"I have one more question."

"What's that?"

"Were you and mommy ever in love?"

"Yes we were."

"I loved your daddy a lot." AJ said. "Ok everybody in the kitchen." "We're gonna have ice cream."