It was a quiet evening in late August, and nothing was out of the ordinary in the lives of Simon and Jeanette Seville, or so it seemed. Three years out of college (and medical school) and a year into marriage and still nothing has changed in the blue-clad chipmunk or his female counterpart; they were both still quiet, studious and organized. That could even be seen in their nightly ritual of sitting down on their couch and reading together for an hour before they prepared for bed. It had been the same thing since they moved into their adorable LA apartment, the very first night they sat together and read one of their favorite books together, and from that moment on, that's what they did to relieve the stress of the day. No matter how crazy the day was, it all seemed to dissipate when they sat together and had time to enjoy each other's company.

However, this night was different. Jeanette knew something was different, but she couldn't quite figure out what. But she had a suspicion. She had been feeling strangely ever since their one year anniversary in June, she blushed at the thought of what had happened that night, and since then she had been feeling sick, as well as a little bloated. So she went to the local super store that afternoon after she got off work to purchase something she wasn't sure she was ready to purchase just yet. True, she was the most mature of her siblings, as was her husband, but she was afraid of how they wouldn't be able to handle this of all things. They had conquered so much, but A BABY? How could two bookworms do that? True, there are baby books, but those never told you the full truth of the whole thing. Nonetheless, the test had to be taken, she needed to know.

"Excuse me for a moment, Simon," she said quietly as she put down her book and got up from her spot on their sofa.

"And where might you be going young lady?" Her husband asked in a joking matter, looking at her with a smirk and a wink.

She blushed scarlet as he winked at her, she had never kept a secret like this from him before, but she couldn't tell him yet, not until she knew.

"Just to the bathroom," she responded shyly before she walked quickly out of the room.

The bathroom was far enough away that she knew that Simon wouldn't hear her if she were to talk to herself, which she was doing as she waited for the test to say something, it seemed to be the longest five minutes of her life. All she could think about, however, was him; her wonderful husband who, no doubt, would be ecstatic at the prospect of children. But she had seen him interact with his brother Alvin's twin boys, and that ended in disaster as Alvin Jr began to scream as soon as Simon was holding him. The look in his eyes said it all, he was not really for children, he was a genius, she knew that, but that was one field she knew he had no expertise in.

She jumped out of her thoughts when she heard the timer on her phone go off quietly. It was time, and that was the scariest moment of her life, and she had no idea why. It could be negative for all she knew, but this test determined her future, somehow this little hunk of cheap plastic would say where the next year of her and her husband's lives would go. She squeezed her eyes shut as she grabbed the stick and held it infront of her face. And there it was, the little pink plus sign. There was no wondering now, she was pregnant, and there was nothing anyone could do about it now. Jeanette smiled and giggled a little, she was going to be a mom. Now that the Olympian task of taking the test was over, her next task began, trying to figure out how to tell her beloved Simon.

She walked out of the bathroom and saw him still sitting in the same position he was before, reading, novel in his left hand and his right draped across the top of the sofa, right above where she usually sits. She took a deep breath and walked back to her seat, the test hidden in the sleeve of her satin robe.

"You were gone a while," Simon remarked, looking over at her from the corner of his eye, "is everything alright?"

"Yes," she responded, "just lost track of time, I guess." She giggled nervously as he smiled at her and returned to his novel.

'It's now or never Jeanette,' she thought to herself as she looked over at her husband nervously.

"H-hey Simon, c-can I tell you something?" She asked quietly

"Yeah, of course," he answered as he put his book down so he could turn and look at his visibly nervous wife. "What is it? You know you can tell me." He smiled a reassuring smile at her, but it didn't make her feel any better, it made her even more nervous!

'Just say it, spit it out woman!' The little voice in her head shouted.

"ALVIN'SGOINGTOBEANUNCLE!" She blurted out

"What?"

"A-alvin," She repeated. "He's going to be an uncle."

"Well that's great!" He responded, not realizing fully what she meant. "So Elenor is expecting I assume?"

She was startled by what he said, "What? No…. Ellie isn't pregnant Simon…."

"But you said Alvin's going to be an uncle…. And if Ellie isn't pregnant, and you're not pregnant…then…...who's….having...the...baby…?" He stared blankly at his wife for a moment and then noticed the sheepish look she had on her face.

"Well…." She responded quietly

"Well what Jeanette?" He asked sternly, but with a crack in his voice.

She looked down at the book her husband had laid down and responded, "No one ever said that I wasn't pregnant…." Then she pulled her hidden hand, with the test in it, out of her sleeve and placed it on his book.

She was afraid to look back up at him, all she heard from him when she pulled out the test was a small gasp. Then he slowly moved his right hand off the back of the sofa to pick up the test that his wife had laid upside down upon his book. She heard another small gasp, which she assumed came from him after he flipped the test over. She took the small amount of courage that she had left and looked up at her husband, and she was shocked to see he was tearing up.

"We're going to have a family," he choked out. She had never seen him this overcome with emotions since the day of their wedding over a year ago. He looked down at his wife, who was staring at him with her large emerald eyes. "We're gonna be a family Jeanette," He said as a huge smile broke out across his face. He dropped the test and pushed his book aside as he went to embrace his wife, who was now crying her own tears of joy.

"I know," she said quietly, hugging him close. "I know."