Chapter 35

She looked back at me and said with a big smile, “Yea, I know, but any chance that I get to yell at my brother, I take it. Anyway I can’t yell at a nun…oh I mean an ex-nun. And I certainly can’t yell at my pregnant future sister-in-law. And please call me Mandy.”

Now I finally realized that I was almost naked and I quickly excused myself, went into the bedroom and put on that big t-shirt of Zack’s.

When I came out, Mandy was alone in the living room. Zack had gone to make some tea. She came over to me and put her arms around me and we hugged. We sat on the couch and in a very soft voice she said. “Carol, I want you to know that I am overjoyed that you are here. Zack had a very tough time the last month. I came here on Saturday and that’s when he told me about you. We were all so worried about him.

She then broke into a huge grin and started to laugh. She yelled, “Zack, I thought it was going to be fun watching you introduce your fiancée to Mom and Dad…but now it will be even better watching you introduce your pregnant fiancée to them.”

Zack was walking out of the kitchen with coffee and tea, he said with a big smile, “Mandy, you are evil, pure evil.”

Still grinning, she giggled, “Yes I am.” And she gave a maniacal, mad scientist laugh.

“Look,” she said, “Get on the phone and call them and Mark too. Mom was the one who called you at work and then she called me. The three of them are really worried.

Zack took out his cell phone and dialed his Mother. “Hi Mom, yea everything is just fine. Yea Mandy stopped in, she is still here. Mom, I said that everything is fine, I just called in and took a couple of days off.”

“Tell you what why don’t I stop over tonight, there’s someone I want you to meet. For Dinner?” He looked at me and I nodded. “Sounds good Mom, Mandy will be coming and why don’t you have Mark, Georgie and the kids over. Yea, I want you all to meet someone and that’s all I’m gonna say. See you tonight, around five. Here’s Mandy.” He handed the phone to Mandy.

She put the phone to her ear and said, “Hi Mom…Mom…Mom…Mom she yelled, listen to me. I guess that you will have to wait until tonight to meet her…yes it’s a her…I don’t know…Mom you will have to wait until tonight. Yes, Joe and I will be there. Bye now.”

She closed the phone and handed it back to Zack. “Oh God You owe me…you owe me big time. You are never going to be able to pay this back.”

We sat and talked for a while, then Mandy said that she had better get going and then laughed, “See you two tonight. Oh God this is going to be great.”

She was laughing as she left the apartment. Zack said, “Mandy you are pure evil, how did such a nice guy like me have such an evil twin. You are the evil twin.”

Mandy once again gave that mad scientist laugh as she walked to the elevator.

I turned to Zack and said, “She’s right you know, tonight will be interesting.” I ran to him and put my arms around his neck and kissed him. “Zack, I’m afraid. What will your parents think about me? I was a nun and I got involved with a former student. Really involved, I got pregnant by him.” I started to cry.

He held me and kissed my cheek. “I will be with you. They will love you, not as much as I do, but they will love you. Especially when they find out that you are carrying their grandchild.”[End]