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day to be beautiful, just like her
mother.  He bent down to talk to the little girl.

 
    “Hi Ashleigh.  I
didn’t get to meet you properly last time.  My name is Aaron and I’m a
friend of your mommy.  Do you mind if I hang out with her tonight?”

 
    “Ok but not too long.
 Mommy is tired.”

 
    Emily laughed as she
stooped to talk to her daughter.

 
    “Oh, so you do hear when
I tell you I’m tired don’t you, you just don’t apply those rules to yourself,
now do you.  Come here and give mommy a kiss sweetheart.”  

 
    Aaron stood up directing
his attention to Emily’s parents.

 
    “Mr. and Mrs. Fowler,
great to see you again.”

 
    “You too Aaron.
 Now you heard the young lady.  Don’t keep her out too long.”

 
    “I won’t, I promise she
will be home before my car turns back into a pumpkin.  Now then Emily,
shall we be off?”

 
    He held his hand out to
steady her down the steps toward his car.

Chapter 5

 
    Aaron pulled her chair
out for her, and Emily sat down.  It felt nice to be treated like a lady
for once rather than just being the baby’s mother.  That wasn’t bad but
there was nothing like feeling like a man really cared for her.  When the
server came and took their orders, she smiled and shook her head.

 
    “Really?  You come
on a date to a nice restaurant with me and order a cheeseburger and fries?
 I can see that you have matured by your looks, but it seems you forgot to
tell your taste buds.”

 
    “Hey, I like what I
like.  By the way, I never said it was a date.  I just said I wanted
to talk.  In fact, if it is a date, then you are the one that asked
me out!”

 
    She had to admit that he
was right.  He had just asked to talk.  She assumed that he’d enjoy a
meal with her more than just a few minutes in the office.  

 
    “Good try Aaron but you
and I both know that you would have turned that few minutes into hounding me
for more time.  Don’t forget, I used to date you.  I just cut out all
the red tape.”

 
    “Correct, Miss Fowler.
 I never could beat you in a good debate.”

 
    “See, now you are
a smart man.  I knew that there was something I liked about you in the
past.”

 
    “Em, it really is good
to see you.  I missed you.  I missed you a lot and I don’t have a
problem telling you that.  I know you saw my expression the other night
and I wanted to talk to you about that.”

 
    He saw her fidget a
little in her seat and could tell that she was still a bit bothered by it.
 

 
    “Yeah, it’s kind of hard
when someone you have known as closely as I have known you gives you that
….look.”

 
    “But Em, you have to
know that I didn’t mean anything by that.  That was an unexpected thing
for you to say.   Imagine how much of a loop it threw me for when the
only woman that I have loved as long as I understood what love was says to me
‘Hi, oh by the way, this is my lovely daughter.’  That was just me trying
to wrap my head around what I had heard.  It was not me saying that you
were or are a bad person.  I had always imagined you with children, only I
expected that they would be mine.”

 
    Emily was embarrassed by
how blunt he was, as her cheeks turned a slight pink in color.  

 
    “Wow.  I forgot
just how much you speak your mind.  In the interest of full disclosure, I
always felt the same way before she was born.”  

 
    Now it was his turn to
blush.  She smiled when she realized that she still had that effect on
him.  

 
    “Why does it surprise
you?  Do you remember that time in the back of the church when I told you
that I wanted you to be my wife and that we were going to have a lot of kids?”

 
    “No, you didn’t say a
lot of kids.  You said exactly nine kids.  A statement that my body
now cringes at.  Having the first one was painful enough; eight more times
would be crazy.  With that in mind, that proposal kind of lost all credibility
with