Stephanie's POV
Hi I'm Stephanie Plum aka Bomb Princess aka Babe and once upon a time I was known as Cupcake. Not any more though and never again. Joe and I are completely done in fact I haven't heard from Joe since he showed up at my parents house when we all were over there having dinner. I'm sure you remember that cause my Batman pummeled his face pretty bad. Then grandma was arrested for pulling a gun on him. The charges were dropped though since Joe preferred to keep the fact that an old lady almost got the best of him a secret.
That had been 7 months and 2 days ago. I was relieved and a little worried about the fact that I hadn't seen Joe. I prefer to keep tabs on my enemies. You know what they say keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Things have changed over the past 7 months. I am now engaged to Ranger and we were planning a double wedding with Lula and Tank, we thought it was an awesome idea. Plus we'd be killing 2 birds with one stone.
The date was set for 4 months from now and we all were excited I just hopped nothing got in the way. Like the situation I was in now. I sat next to Lula on the curb watching my car burn. I have the crappiest luck with cars. What was this the five hundredth the sixth? I don't know I have lost count.
"Well white girl another car's death by your hands." Lula said.
"My hands? This one's all your fault." I said in a growl, great Rangers habits were rubbing off on me.
"My fault?" She demanded.
"Yes, your fault. You're the one who made fun of the guy. Why cant you just try restraining you're self?"
"How was I suppose to know that he would blow you're car up?" She asked.
"Well with my luck what else would you expect?" I sighed looking at what had been the beautiful Mercedes Ranger had given me. This sucked I loved that car and it was gone, with it went something even more important. My damn donuts.
"Damn he blew up my donuts I swear I want to kill that man" I said glaring at another man who was handcuffed and sitting next to Lula. "This is all you're fault to" I told him.
"My fault?" Sally asked.
"Yeah your fault. If we hadn't had to come after you this would have never happened. Why cant you be a good little boy and go to court?" I asked still giving him the third degree burg glare.
"I had to work, had to get the kiddies to school, ya know." He gave me a what do you want me to do look. I just rolled my eyes.
Just then Morelli pulled up and so did Ranger. Ranger climbed out of the SUV along with Tank and they came up to us.
"Dude, what is wrong with Steph? She's so damn moody" Sally asked looking at Ranger.
"I'll tell you what's wrong with me, that stupid bastard over there in the cop car blew my damn donuts up!" I said glaring at the man. I swear he paled and turned his head away from me. That's right ass whole look away in fear. Coward.
"Babe" Ranger said raising an eyebrow.
"I wanted those donuts damn it, I've been craving them all damn day and that stupid bastard blew them up. I wasn't the one who called him a ugly shrimpy ass white guy and I didn't tell him he needed to learn how to bathe. So why did he have to take it out on my car and donuts?" I said and sent a glare to Lula. "I told you I should have taken Tank with me today" I said sending a glare at Ranger.
"I'll buy you a dozen donut's white girl just settle down" Lula said rolling her eyes. Today Lula was wearing neon pink stretch pants that looked like they had been painted on and a black Rangeman t-shirt she had stolen from Tank.
"Well fine, but you going to buy me a new car while your at it?" I sighed "I loved that car." I said feeling tears form. "My god, what's wrong with me?"
"Hey cupcake, destroyed another car I see" Joe said.
"Why don't you got eat shit and die officer shit head, I don't want to have to look at your stupid face right now" I said borrowing Lula's nickname for him.
My out burst seemed to shock him but it sent the others into chuckle mode.
"What's your problem Cupcake, Batman not satisfying you're needs?" Joe asked. Rangers eyes grew dark with rage.
"I think her needs have been fulfilled overboard" Tank said.
"What you mean?" Lula asked looking up at her man.
"Steph has all the signs of being pregnant" Tank said smiling.
"Pregnant!" I shouted. "What would you know about being pregnant? I demanded.
"I read an article, Mood swings, cravings, being tiered, cant stand certain smells, body changes like weight gain."
"Half the shit you just listed happens to me on a daily basis." I informed him thinking his answer to my problem was insane.
"When was your last period?" He asked.
"That's easy" I said and tried to remember. I paled in realization. "I ugh.. Oh boy? I said "I cant remember."
"I do it was 2 months ago" Ranger said and he sighed. "Babe" he said looking down at me.
"This isn't my fault" I said standing up and placing my hands on my hip's.
"Didn't say it was Babe" he said smiling.
I had forgotten Morelli was there. But the sudden heavy breathing made us all look over at the cop none of us liked. He gave me a look that would kill if it could. He turned and stormed away.
"I cant believe that fucker" Snap! "ouch what the hell?" Snap! "Cut that out" Sally cried after Lula pulled the rubber band on his wrist and let it snap back into place.
"Just trying to help, not like you could do it your self with your hands cuffed" she told him. "Now watch that potty mouth." Sally let out a sigh. And then Ranger pulled him up and Tank pulled Lula up.
Lula, Sally and myself sat in the back. "So white girl, you going to have a little baby Batman" Lula said. I didn't want to think of that right now. Not only did I have to tell my parents that Ranger and I where getting married tonight when we went to dinner now I had to tell them I was pregnant.
"Stop the car" I yelled. Ranger pulled over and I threw the door open and threw up. I felt a warm hand rubbing my back.
"You ok Babe?" Ranger asked after I turned back around and buckled up.
"Yeah, that's just the reaction to having to tell my parents to night that I'm pregnant and that I'm getting married," I said. "My moms going to be mad."
"It's going to be ok" he said. "We are in this together"
"Maybe we don't have to tell them about the baby I mean it hasn't been confirmed by a doctor or even a home pregnancy test." I said hopefully.
"We'll pick a couple tests up on the way back to Rangeman" Ranger said. Great he wasn't going to let me go to denial land. I should have known.
That's how 30 minutes later I found my self sitting on the edge of the sink waiting for the results of 5 tests. Hey I was going to be sure. 10 minutes later we had our answer and it was clear. I was pregnant. There went the last hope of surviving dinner tonight. I sighed.
"Don't worry Babe its going to be ok" Tank and I talked and we decided we will move the Wedding up to next month. That way we will be married before its to obvious." He said.
"Tank's willing to do that? For me?" I asked feeling tears forming.
"Yeah, he's scared to wait much longer anyways you know how he is about commitment. He's afraid he'll chicken out."
"Well I guess that's fine. Now we just got to survive the wrath of my mother." He actually grimaced at the though. He tried to hide it from me but I saw it before he got his blank face in place. Great we were seriously screwed if Batman was worried about dinner tonight. Damn sometimes life sucked. If it wasn't my cars blowing up it was something else that I had to tell my mother and have her tell me how disappointed in me she was. Well on the bright side grandma would be ecstatic. She loved Ranger.
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