Featured in this story: the twins (click for pictures)
Today I got a phone call from Jimmy, the twins’ older brother and a professional soccer player in
When he called he sounded cheerful and bright – much to my surprise. I had expected him to be upset about the way the competition turned out. I asked him about it and he chuckled.
“You see”, he said, “I didn’t like it – but I lost fair and square. I guess I have to hide my junk from the rest of my team mates, though. They’d have a field day on my nuts if they saw my shaved bits. I just hope Frank won’t tell them.” He sighed. “But he probably will.”
I grinned. “So everything is working fine again?”
Jimmy sighed. “My balls are black and blue. I haven’t tested their efficiency, yet, but I don’t think they will be out of order for long. You know, they have taken the odd blow on the field now and then – and there has never been any permanent damage…”
“That’s nice to hear…”
“Absolutely!” he chuckled.
I laughed.
Then Jimmy changed the subject: “It’s Will and Michael’s birthday in April and I thought we could do something special for them, like a party or something.”
“Sounds nice.”
“Yeah. Well, I’m pretty busy here at the moment so I won’t be able to do the planning”, Jimmy paused. “I wondered if you could do that.”
I thought about that for a moment.
“You know”, Jimmy continued, “invite a few friends, maybe have a theme to it, something like that.”
“Okay”, I said, “I’ll think of something. Will you be there on the day?”
“I will if I can arrange it.”
“Great. When is it?” I asked.
“It’s the 4th of April”, Jimmy answered.
“So we have more than two months to get things going.”
“Right.”
“No problem. It’s gonna be a wild party!” I grinned.
Jimmy laughed. “They are gonna love it!”
“You bet!”
“Alex, you could… you know… arrange for a few ball games to be played, too, couldn’t you?” Jimmy said with a mock-conspiratorial tone in his voice.
I laughed out loud. “You’re really getting into it, arent’t you?”
Jimmy laughed, too. “Kind of. I want them to have a great party. And what’s a party without popping a few balloons?”