November 19th, 2034; as it had been over the years with the birthdays for all the kids, there wasn’t much to do when it came to planning something for Kate and Kassidy’s sweet sixteen. The twins had been fielding phone calls all week long. Jack had called the day before just before he opened the store up. Ann treated her granddaughters out to lunch at a restaurant of their choice. Amira called the twins at the start of the week when she had a moment to herself while she was overseas commanding a platoon of Marines in Syria. Leyla called the twins shortly after her daughter had.
The birthday girls had opted for a spa day with their mother, aunt, sisters, cousins, Rachel, Ziva, Madalyn, Tali, Monique and Abby. So days before the twins’ sixteenth birthday all that Jenny had to concern herself with was the spa reservation for the fifteen person party and continuing the tradition that her and Jaylyn’s mother; Dana, had started the day that Jenny had turned sixteen. So days before Kate and Kassidy’s birthday, Jenny took a trip to Victoria’s Secret with her sister. This shopping trip to Victoria’s Secret was the last one that Jenny had to go on when it came to her daughters. Jaylyn had her one and only trip to Victoria’s Secret last year for her girls’ sweet sixteen. Now Ziva had adopted the tradition that her two best friends did with their own daughters. Ziva did it with Madalyn when Madalyn turned sixteen years old back in 2022.
Now Ziva would be in Jenny’s stilettoes in two weeks’ time when her last two girls, her babies turned sixteen. Tony was still trying to figure out why Ziva was so distraught. He was happy like everyone else was, but everyone else understood why Ziva was upset. One of the things Ziva had said to Tony twenty-nine years ago outside the Embassy hotel back then was on constant replay in her mind today.
I lost my little sister, Tali, in a Hamas suicide bombing. She was sixteen and the best of us. Tali had compassion.
But Ziva still had another two weeks before her twins were no longer her fifteen year old twins. Today was Kate and Kassidy’s day, today was a happy day for all intent and purpose. Jenny had the spa reservations made before her daughters were out of bed. The plan was that Jenny, Kate and Kassidy were going to meet everyone at Qi spa. This plan provided Jenny the opportunity to give the twins what she had bought them at Victoria’s Secret.
“Kate, Kassidy; can you come here please.” Jenny called as Jethro stepped out to go to the diner to get coffee for the four of them.
“You’re not staying for this?” Jenny asked her husband through the open window.
“This is your moment with them not mine. And no as a father of two sixteen year olds, I don’t want to even think of them doing that. Hell I don’t want to think of any of them doing that.” Jethro said as he drew closer to his ’71 Dodge Challenger RT Hemi that he got back in 2008.
“Stop acting like they aren’t your little six year olds, Jethro. They’re going to and in fact two out of the seven already are.”
Jenny saw the abhorred look on her husband’s face as he got into the driver’s side of his Challenger.
“We’re here mom, what did you want?” Kate said.
“We were trying to get ready for the spa.” Kassidy said.
“I have something to give the both of you. An early birthday present if you will.” Jenny said as she handed her daughters each of their present.
“What is it?”
“Where’s dad?”
“Your dad went to get coffee for all of us from the diner. As far as the gift before each of you is a part of a tradition that my mother started with me when I was your age and I continued it with your Aunt J when she was your age. And of course your Aunt J continued it with your cousins last year as I did with your sisters.”
The twins opened their gifts and saw what the gift boxes held inside of them. In Kate’s gift box was a blue halter babydoll. Kassidy’s box held a flyaway apron babydoll that was black and white in color.
“Thanks mom.” the girls said awkwardly before they left to finish getting ready for their spa day.
Shortly after the girls left, Jethro came back with a carrying tray of four cups of coffee. Once Jethro was in the kitchen he removed and handed Jenny the cup of Jamaican blend coffee.
“Thank-you, Jethro.”
“What did the girls think of their gifts?” Jethro asked.
“I think they like they were just a bit socially awkward and quickly left.”
After that Jethro brought his daughters their coffee. Kate’s French Vanilla blend and Kassidy her Colombian Dark Roast.
Sometime later Jenny and the girls met the rest of their party at Qi spa. The twins went to the mud room while their sisters and cousins took off for the steam room. Jenny, Jaylyn, Ziva, Rachel and Abby went directly to get a deep tissue massage.
“Once we all have our homes to ourselves after the kids go away to college; we have to make this a regular thing. Just the five of us, just the moms.” Rachel said as her masseur started the massage.
“These women are so tense.” the masseur who was working on Rachel said in Korean.
“We’re tense cause four of us are Federal Agents and she’s a psychiatrist.” Jaylyn said.
The spa day continued on for a while. Once the spa day had ended it was time to call it a day. Delilah had revealed that she was seeing Carson Taylor/Carson Matthews. Arabella was dating Zach Tanner. Emiliana was involved with Zane Wilson. At midnight that night Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Jennifer Gibbs were the proud of forty-five year old Kelly Joann Gibbs, thirty-five year olds Delilah Jayne Gibbs, Emiliana Jayme Gibbs, Arabella Jacqueline Gibbs and Madison Jaliyah Gibbs; and now the newly turned sixteen year olds Kate Jayden Gibbs and Kassidy Jacey Gibbs. Tonight Jethro and Jenny went to bed happy.
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