Hello!

I really don't have an explanation for why I decided to post this. I just got struck with inspiration last night and wrote this in an hour, so if it's not good then that's the reason.

I was talking to my friend at school though the other day and we both decided that our favourite genre of fanfiction was family based stuff, especially when they're really cute. So, totally ready to read some adorable content, I logged on to the website after school and found virtually nothing in the Teen Beach Movie archive. And since there was so few family stories, I decided to try my hand at writing one myself.

I know that I said that I won't be updating my other story until the end of October for my Halloween one-shot week, but I write those stories on the computer and I got the idea for this last night so I just typed it up on my phone.

I don't know if anyone's interested in reading a story like this but I thought that I'd try something different. Maybe it'll go well, who knows?

I hope that you enjoy it!

The pale blue box sat at the bottom of her bag, glaring up at her. It only became visible once she'd dumped her pile of reports on the kitchen table and suddenly the events of this morning came flooding back to her.

After weeks of battling a constant uneasy stomach, Mack had decided that something wasn't right. Her mind had been occupied the entire ride to work with various, albeit highly unlikely, solutions to her nausea. But she couldn't shake the feeling that something was different about her. And every time that she wracked her brain for a reason why, her train of thought always returned to the same station: pregnancy. Which is why she was currently having a staring contest with the little blue box that she had picked up at the drug store during her lunch break.

Normally Mack and Brady got home around the same time, each leaving their respective work places just in time to meet each other on the driveway. However, Brady's text message from ten minutes ago stated that he would be a couple of minutes late because he was dealing with something back at the shop. Frankly, Mack had too much on her mind to question him further so she just left it until she saw him in person. Now that she had some time alone though, it would be the perfect opportunity to remove the dastardly ominous box from her satchel and put her whirring mind at rest. At least this way, if it came out negative then she could just keep it to herself. Before she could have a second thought, Mack picked up the box and walked into the bathroom, her chocolate brown eyes already scanning the instructions on the back.

Fast forward ten minutes though and the brunette's eyes are glued to the two lines. The two lines that meant that the test was positive. The two lines that meant that she was pregnant. That she and Brady were going to have a baby. She didn't know whether it was the shock of it all or her nausea flaring up again but she felt her stomach start to perform backflips.

Mack and Brady had been married for almost two years now, so the subject of babies was definitely on the table...just a bit further down on their list of priorities. It's not that they didn't want to have children, it was just that they both had a lot on their plates right now with work and finalising the financial side of the house that they had just bought together.

The front door may have clicked open at some point during the time that she was hovering in the bathroom, but she couldn't have told you for definite. She also didn't hear Brady calling her name twice because the blood was rushing around her head too loudly for her to concentrate. Eventually she managed to prise herself away from the sink that she had been steadying herself on long enough to step towards the door. She was in such a trance that she didn't even think to put the test down, let alone look up as she walked out into the hallway. And this simple little error is what caused her to crash into the lanky blonde that she's so happy to call her husband. Although she wasn't as happy today as she usually was around him, but that was mainly just because of her shock.

"Hey, there you are. I've been looking all over for you, I was getting worried," Brady smiled, clearly relieved to know that Mack was ok. Although 'OK' wasn't really the right word for how Mack was feeling right now.

Her stomach, which was still trying to tie itself in knots, dropped to her feet as soon as she laid eyes on Brady. She'd been so caught up worrying about the pregnancy herself that she'd completely forgotten about telling Brady and how he would react.

Brady had a lot going on down at the surf shack, his surfboard business was really thriving. But she also knew that he was under a lot of stress right now because he had a pitch to a rather large organisation coming up, which, if it went well, could turn her husband's quaint little business into a global success. Could this news be a major problem for him? How was he going to react? Could she even bring herself to tell him at this point?

"What's that?"

Brady's words brought her tumbling back to reality but struck fear down to her core. His warm brown eyes were trained on the white stick in her hands, an unreadable expression crossing his face.

Mack knew that see couldn't put it off any longer. What was the point in doing that anyway? She couldn't lie to Brady about something as huge as this after all. But tears choked her words as she tried to make them come out of her mouth and in the end she just hurried past him, brushing away a tear that had broken through the barricade and had fallen to her cheek.

"Mack?" Brady questioned, the concern in his voice very clear as he followed his wife.

Mack stopped at the kitchen counter, placing the white stick face up on the surface in front of her. Instinctively her hands slid to her stomach as it hit her for the first time that there was a tiny human growing in there. She felt a hand on her arm and then a chin on her shoulder and she instantly relaxed into Brady's touch, waiting on tenterhooks for his response to the two lines looking up at him.

"That means that you're pregnant, right?" Brady checked, making sure that he had his facts straight before making any assumptions that might upset Mack even more.

Mack weakly nodded, silently letting a tear slip down her face.

"Wow," Brady breathed. Even though Mack wasn't looking at him, she could tell that he was grinning like an idiot. There was a childlike innocence and awe in Brady's voice when he got excited like this that made her wonder how she could ever have doubted him. No matter how busy he was at work, no matter how stressed he might be, his family always came first. And the news that he was going to have a new addition to his family was some of the best news that Brady could have heard. Neither of the twenty six year olds had planned this pregnancy and neither had expected it to come up so suddenly. But somehow it felt right. How, they had no idea though.

"What are you thinking?" Mack asked shakily, trying to calm her nerves without much success.

"I don't really know how to put it into words," Brady admitted with a bashful chuckle. "I just feel strangely amazing."

"Really?"

"Really. Why what are you thinking?" Brady asked, his tone changing slightly as if he was uncertain if what he was feeling was right or not.

"A lot of things," Mack confessed, bits and pieces of information to comprehend flying around her brain, making it hard to think straight.

"That's understandable," Brady said quietly, moving his mouth closer to her ear as he moved his hand closer to her shoulder.

"I'm nervous, Brady," Mack whispered, scaring herself by actually saying it out loud. But it was the only thought that she could actually make out for definite because it was so strong, everything else just melted into one big blur.

"You don't need to be, everything's going to be fine," Brady reassured her. "Isn't this what we've always wanted? I mean sure, it's been put on the back burner over the past year or so but that doesn't mean that we can't get excited about it."

"But what about everything at work, Brady. You've got so much going on that-" Mack started, blathering on about her problems to see if it will make them go away.

"Mack, who cares about boring grown up stuff like work?" Brady chuckled, gently spinning his wife around to face him.

"You," Mack replied, still a little uneasy about the whole situation.

"Nope, wrong answer," Brady grinned mischievously, tapping the brunette on the tip of her nose before continuing. "You know that my main priority is always you. But now, you're going to have to share that main priority slot with this little one," Brady continued, lacing his hand between Mack's fingers over her stomach.

Mack felt herself smiling, she couldn't help it around Brady, he brought it out of her, especially when he was being as sweet as he was right now. She didn't know if it was her hormones already staring to act up but her panicked tears had now turned into happy ones that started to free-fall now, leaving glistening trails behind on her cheeks.

Brady brushed the tears away with his thumb before planting a reassuring kiss on her forehead.

"We're going to get through this together, ok?" Brady prepositioned, wrapping his arms around Mack's waist as he brought her into a hug.

"Ok," Mack agreed, nestling her head into Brady's chest. "We can do this," Mack murmured, trying to dispel her concerns and give herself some much needed confidence in this area.

"Mack, it's us," Brady said, resting his chin on the top of his head as he ran his fingers through his wife's hair. "Of course we're going to be fine."

And they hoped with all of their hearts that they would be.

This was merely the start of one of the biggest adventures any couple could ever go on, hopefully they could make their way to the end in one piece to witness their lies changing forever.

So that's the first chapter!

Let me know what you thought of it! Should I continue? Are you interested in reading something like this? Was this first chapter any good?

Also, I'm still debating whether I want to bring the Wet Side Story characters into the story so let me know your thoughts on that too.

I don't really know when (or if) the next chapter will be posted, I'll see what the reaction to this is first before I decide to write any more.

I think that's all for now! Thank you so much for reading if you got this far!

-cherrygorilla