Everyone scrambled around looking for their phones when Kevin found his and answered it. "Hello? Yeah? Already? Okay, I’ll catch the next plane out, Mom. Wish them luck! Bye!"A huge grin was plastered across his face as he turned to the rest of the group.
"It’s a girl! I’m an uncle!" The group gathered around the tall man to congratulate him as Denise went about getting him on the next flight to Kentucky.
With a big smile on his face, he turned to Sabrina and surprised the whole room by pulling her in for a hug and started to waltz her around the room. Kristy looked on as the room laughed at their antics.
"He’s this happy about his niece? What is he going to be like when he has kids of his own?"
Brian smiled at her. "He probably will be so overcome that he’ll start crying. He is just so happy because his brother and his sister-in-law have been trying for years to have a baby, and the doctors weren’t too sure if this one was going to make it. Kevin has been miserable being away from them."
"So is he going home to see them?" Howie, who was listening, nodded.
"He wanted to be there for them, but she has had four false labors this past month, and Kev couldn’t leave the tour, so he’s had to wait until the baby was born before he could leave. Denise is booking him on a flight right now." By this time, Kevin stopped spinning Sabrina around the floor and they were sitting on the couch laughing.
"AJ? AJ? Honey, are you alright?" AJ had been sullenly staring at the two when his mother’s voice broke him out of his thoughts.
"Yeah, Mom?"
Denise looked closely at her son. "Are you okay?"
When he nodded, she continued. "Could you let Kevin know that his flight leaves in about forty minutes and he needs to leave for the airport as soon as possible?"
"Sure, Mom." Denise watched her normally outgoing son shuffle over to where Kevin was talking with Sabrina.
"Hey Kevin, your flight leaves soon. Mom has a car ready to take you to the airport." Kevin nodded and turned to Sabrina.
"Could you ride to the airport with me?"
When AJ saw her smile, he walked over to the other side of the room without hearing her response. "I would love to, but I really need to get Kristy home."
"I understand. Will you walk with me to the car?" Kevin stood up and reached out his hand. Sabrina smiled and allowed herself to be pulled up from the couch.
"I’d love to." AJ watched as Sabrina left the room with Kevin with her hand still in his.
[ Part Four ]