How We Met

"Mommy how did you and daddy meet?" asked my four year old son Adrian as we sat in the waiting room of a hospital.
I looked at him sitting crouched down in the chair looking bored and tired. We had been there since six o'clock in the morning. It was now nine o'clock that same night.
"You want me to tell you again?" I asked. Oh yes please, it's my favorite story!" He sat up and his eyes sparkled.
I looked over at my husband he smiled and shrugged. "What can I say you're a great story teller." he said.
I sighed "Well okay but first I'm gonna go check how Vanessa is doing." I got up, handed my husband the magazine I was reading, and walked out the door down the hall to room 236 of labor and delivery. Vanessa is my cousin we've been the best of friends since we were little. I couldn't believe that she was finally going to have a baby. I walked into the room her husband sat on a chair next to her looking like he had just finished going through a war.
"How's she doing?" I asked.
"She's 7 centimeters. The doctor said she might have this baby by two or three in the morning." He smiled and looked down at her lovingly. "She's resting right now. She's had a rough day."
I smiled, she laid there looking peaceful but I knew that would only last for a few more minutes. "Well don't forget to tell us when that child of yours is born now, alright?" I told him as I walked out the door.
"Of course not!" I heard him call out as the door quietly closed behind me.
I sat back down in the chair between my husband and son. Adrian quickly slipped off his chair and climbed into my lap. "Okay, I'm ready now Mommy."

Vanessa and I were on vacation in New York. We had never been there before. As we were walking down the street, admiring the buildings and different people, I ran into some guy who obviously wasn't watching where he was going and my story starts here.
"How rude!" I said as I didn't look at the guy and kept walking. Vanessa had stopped dead in her tracks and was staring at the guy that had rudely bumped into me. He had a friend with him and he was walking backwards looking at her. Her attention then turned to the 'rude guy's' friend.
"Oh my gosh" I heard her say. She turned and ran to catch up to me. "That's Joe McIntyre!"
I stopped and looked at her "What?!?" I thought the New York air must have affected her eyesight.
"Oh my god! That's Joe McIntyre. Him and the 'rude guy' are headed this way!" She said excitedly.
"Quit trippin! You are so full of......." My sentence didn't get to be finished as I turned around and saw that it really was Joe McIntyre and his friend wasn't any old 'rude guy' it was Jordan Knight! I decided I was going to treat like any other guy that had run into me in the street and didn't even turn around to say sorry.

"Now that's not true! I was gonna say 'sorry' but you were the one that didn't even turn around to see if I was alright....."

"Jordan! I'm the one telling the story here!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah only let the poor kid hear your side of the story."

Any way where was I? Oh yeah....."

"So I was gonna treat him like any other guy. I wasn't gonna treat him special just because he had been a member of NKOTB. They were my favorite group back when they were popular and when I heard that they had broken up I must admit I was angry....." "Boo Hoo Hoo...."

"JORDAN!!"

"Sorry sorry don't have a baby!"

"Okay that's it! I'm done telling my story now."

"Daddy quit bothering Mommy, please finish just don't listen to him."

"Alright I'll go on...."

So they walked over to us and I stubbornly turned my head away and refused to look them in the face.
"Hello. My name is ......" Not letting him finish Vanessa took his hand and said, "I know who you are. My name is Vanessa and this is my cousin Angela."
I looked at him and gave him a sarcastic smile and noticed that him and Vanessa were still 'shaking hands'.
Jordan said. "Hi, I'm Jordan and I was wondering if I could get in on that hand shake?"
Vanessa and Joe quickly let go and I could see that Joe was blushing. Jordan then shook Vanessa's hand and then extended his hand towards me. I looked at his hand refusing to take it until Vanessa gave me a sharp nudge to the ribs. I then reluctantly shook his hand. Jordan gave me a beautiful smile and there was a slight twinkle in his eye.
"You know you just about knocked me over? Don't you think that's kind of rude?" I asked trying to ignore my heart that was starting to race.
"Sorry I didn't realize my smile was so bewitching." Jordan jokingly replied. I flashed him a dirty look. He then said, "Really, I didn't mean it." I nodded still being stubborn.
"So," Joe said "Where are you guys headed?"
"Well we were just about to go get some lunch. Do you guys know any place around here where they sell really good subs?" Vanessa asked.
I rolled my eyes. I couldn't believe she was actually inviting them to lunch!
"As a matter of fact I do know where to go for a perfect lunch." Joe said.
"Well what are we waiting for?" Jordan asked.
"Let's get going I'm starving!"
Well lunch ended up lasting 8 hours, we ended up in Central Park. Joe and Vanessa were hugging and kissing not wanting to let go. They ended up going off alone to say goodbye. Jordan and I sat there awkwardly in silence.
"Look" Jordan finally said "I know we got off on the wrong foot and I'm sorry for that but I'm a great guy and I can prove it if you just give me a chance and I......."
"SShhhh.." I said putting my fingers up to his lips. I leaned over and kissed him. We stood there smiling at each other.
"You know we leave to go back home tomorrow." I said looking at the floor realizing that in these past 8 hours I had spent with him, I ended up liking him a lot. Even though I had tried my hardest to stay distant, it just didn't work.
"Isn't there a way you guys can stay longer?" he sadly asked.
"Well we live in Florida. It's not that far. Why don't you guys come down there?" I was hoping he would say yes.
He looked at me and said, "I can't. I have to stay here and take care of some stuff."
At that moment tears welled up in my eyes. "Well will you promise to keep in touch?"
"Of course I will silly," he said with a smile.
"And I'll keep in touch with Vanessa," Joe said as him and Vanessa walked up behind us. I could tell she had been crying too.
I looked at Jordan. "You know I'll miss you, right?" he said sincerely.
"I know," I said. We said our goodbyes and went back to our hotel room.
When we got back home we were both sure that we would never hear from them again but we were wrong. When we walked into our apartment they was about 2 dozen messages on our answering machine. All from them. Do you what to know something? They never broke their promise. They kept in touch and then.....

"Mommy hurry and get to the part where I was born."

"Okay well me and your dad loved each other so much that we decided to have a baby and that's where you come in." He smiled and the closed his eyes and just like that he was asleep. At that moment Joe rushed in to the room. "Sorry I'm late," he said "She didn't go off and have that baby without me did she?"
"No Joe, she didn't. She has a few hours to go." I replied barely able to keep my eyes open. Joe plopped down in a chair across from me. He looked worried, "Don't worry women have babies all the time you know." I said trying to calm his nerves.
"I know, I know. But you know she's my girl I love her."
"I know Joe and everything will be fine."

Vanessa and Joe had kept in touch the whole time too. But since they both happen to be Capricorn they bumped heads a little too much. They both decided to remain friends and have stayed friends ever since. They are always there for each other and Joe wasn't too jealous when she married the neighbor boy we had grown up with.
At that moment the waiting room door flew open and her husband ran in. "It's a boy!" he shouted.
Jordan, Adrian and Joe all got up excitedly. "Can we go see him?" asked Adrian.
"Sure you can. Let's go." replied her husband.
We all quietly walked into room 236 and there lay Vanessa with her new son.
"How pretty" I said still in awe of the tiny child in front of us.
"So what's his name?!" Joe asked eager to here his Godson's name.
"I named him after his father," Vanessa replied. "Say hello to little Nickolas Gene Carter Jr."