Heart Matters Chapter Six: "Don’t say that." Ginger warned Jeff. "I can’t help it." His face remained expressionless. Ginger backed away from him until her back hit the wall. "Maybe I should go home." She suggested. Jeff shook his head and walked closer to her. "Things didn’t have to be this way." He started. "Then how should they have been?" "We should have gotten married." Jeff blurted out and Ginger’s eyes became wide. "Married?!?" "Who’s getting married?" Hank walked down the stairs with a strange expression on his face. "No one." Jeff answered, not taking his eyes off Ginger. "JEFF!" Aaron came tearing into the room. "What’s the matter?" Jeff crouched down to be eye level with the four year old. "I lost my ball you gave to me." Aaron pouted. "I’ll buy you a new one tomorrow." Jeff answered. "But how can I practice?" Aaron walked over to Ginger and tugged on her skirt, "I’m going to be a ball player, just like Jeff!" Ginger smiled at him and looked at Jeff. Hank sensed something between Jeff and Ginger so he took action, "Aaron, I think I have an old ball somewhere upstairs. You can come up and help me look for it and then after dinner we can play catch." "I’ll beat you!" Aaron yelled as he ran up the stairs, Hank at his heels. "He doesn’t know, does he?" Ginger abruptly asked. "Nope. I’m just his big brother Jeff. And that’s the way it’s going to stay." "What about when he gets older? Are you ever going to tell him?" She demanded to know. "Eventually." "When?" "When the time is right." "And when will that be? When he’s fifty?" "Ginger…" "I have to go. Bye." She turned and ran out the door.