Keeping Her And Baby.
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Johnny looked at Reed for a moment and scratched his head.
"Did anyone besides me hear that?" He asked looking at his two friends.
Reed and Ben nodded slowly. Reed opened his mouth to say something but he couldn't find the words to express what he was feeling at the moment. Ben smiled and slapped Johnny on the back.
"Congratulations Flame Brain," Ben said nudging Johnny. "You're going to be a dad!"
Johnny looked at his friends and stumbled a bit.
"I think I need to sit down," Johnny said finding a chair. "That's, wow."
"I'm here if you need advice," Reed said taking a seat next to Johnny. "I have one too, you know."
"Is this real life?" Johnny asked looking between Ben and Reed.
"Yes, Johnny," Reed replied looking at the young man. "This is real life."
"How, how, how did this happen?" Johnny asked pathetically.
"Well Johnny," Ben said taking a seat next to Reed. "When a man and a woman really love each other…"
"Not funny Wide Load," Johnny said looking pathetically at his friend. "I mean me, a dad; I can't see how God would be that irresponsible."
"Johnny," Reed said reassuring Johnny. "I promise you God didn't make a mistake, I thought the same thing when Sue got pregnant. Look at me, I can barely remember my own birthday, but somehow, the cosmos saw fit for me to have a son, who's the light of my life."
"Reed," Johnny said throwing his leader a strange look. "That's really sappy."
"When your baby looks into your eyes for the first time," Reed said smiling. "Sappy will become your middle name."
"Right," Johnny said looking at Reed. "No, I will never be as sappy as you."
"Just wait," Reed said smiling. "You'll be wrapped around those little fingers the moment you see him or her."
"Baby." Johnny said shell shocked. "Baby, me father, baby actual baby."
"Kid's in shock." Ben said chuckling. "Who knew a baby could shut him up!"
"May be she isn't pregnant," Johnny said looking at the floor. "It could just be a mistake on the test, those home tests are entirely accurate you know!"
Reed was going to reply when Sue and Chill walked out of the bathroom. Johnny stood up and looked at Chill.
"So, uh-," Johnny said rubbing his neck. "I heard the uh, thing, about you and the uh-"
"These home tests aren't entirely accurate," She said looking at the floor. "Sue is going to run a few tests on me and verify it."
Johnny looked at her and scoffed.
"You act like you're pregnant already." Johnny said harshly.
Chill looked up at him with slight hurt in her eyes.
"Yeah well since the pregnancy test came back positive I have reason to assume that I'm pregnant." She said defensively.
"Well you know what happens when you assume things." Johnny said harshly.
"Yeah," Chill said offensively. "It makes you an ass!"
"I'm not the one who could be pregnant here-" Johnny said before getting slapped.
"The last time I checked Johnathan Storm," She said with tears in her eyes. "It takes two to make a baby and when we had sex we knew this could happen and for you to act the way you're acting now-"
Chill looked down at the floor again then back at Johnny with tear stained eyes. Johnny winced as the reality of what he said hit him.
"I'm sorry," He said holding his hand out toward her shoulder. "I'm just scared okay."
"You think you're scared," Chill said looking up at him. "I'm terrified, I could possibly be responsible for carrying a new life in me for nine months, and that has it's own set of responsibilities because what ever I do the baby will in some way be affected by it."
"If I sat with you during your tests would that make you feel better?" Johnny asked stroking her shoulders.
Chill nodded and looked up at him.
"But it's not earning you get out of the dog house points." She said smiling a little.
Johnny smiled and snapped his fingers.
"We're ready anytime you are Susie!" Johnny said in a playful rushing tone.
"Keep it up Johnny and I'll poke you in the -" Sue said before Reed interrupted her.
"So Ben let's go do something not in the way-" Reed said motioning for Ben to leave.
"I know what we could do," Ben said smiling. "We could go and plunder through Flame Brain's old baby pictures."
Reed laughed a bit until he realized that Ben was serious.
"Ben come back here," Reed said chasing after him. "Ben!"
"Maybe we can post them to Facebook!" Ben shouted in glee.
"Ben I don't think that's a good-" Reed shouted at Ben throwing Johnny and Chill an apologetic smile. "Ben put the baby book away!"
"Come on," Sue said guiding the couple to the med lab. "That blood isn't going to draw itself."
"We can put a man on the moon," Chill said walking into the lab. "But we can't make a way of drawing blood that doesn't hurt."
"It could be worse," Johnny said sitting next to her. "She could use Ben's needle."
Johnny pointed over to a small atom smasher Reed built.
"Johnny," Sue said smiling. "Grow up."
"But it makes her happy." Johnny said pointing to Chill.
Sue prepped Chill's arm and looked at Chill.
"Okay one big stick and there we go." Sue said inserting the needle into the vein. "And all done."
Chill looked up at Sue and scowled.
"Ow." Chill said frowning. "How long until we get the results?"
"Normally for most people it would take 24 to 48 hours," Sue said placing the tube of blood into a machine. "But since my husband is a super genius, two hours."
"Two hours," Johnny whined. "What are we supposed to do for two hours?"
"How about talking," Sue said folding her arms. "If the test is positive there are going to be a lot of changes and you two need to start thinking about that."
Sue walked out and saw Reed standing across the room with his head springing back to his shoulders.
"You told them two hours?" Reed asked smirking.
"It gives them time to sort out some of their issues." Sue said giving a sheepish smile. "Because they will have some issues to sort through before the baby comes."
"So she is." Reed said smiling.
"Yep eight and a half weeks," Sue said smiling as she hugged Reed. "Chromosomal results show that they are going to have a-"
"Hey Susie got any pics of Johnny running around naked as a baby?" Ben asked grinning. "I want to make a scap book for the expecting idiot and wife."
Johnny walked over to the computer and began clicking around on the screen.
"Johnny what are you doing?" Chill asked walking over to him.
"I'm finding out the results." Johnny said as he began sifting through files. "I remember when Sue found out she was pregnant, it took about thirty seconds for the results to go through."
"Johnny," Chill said placing her hand over his. "Maybe she did this for a reason, she's right if I am pregnant, and by the way she's acting I would say I am, if I'm preganant then things will change, and I want you to know that I love no matter what happens."
Johnny sighed and wrapped an arm around her.
"I know you love me and I love you," Johnny said sighing. "I just don't want things to go the way they did when I was a kid, I don't want to be the living father whose all but dead to his kid, you know?"
"Johnny," Chill said taking his head into her hands. "We can do this together, okay, we just have to stick together and like Sue said talk, and for you Johnny that shouldn't be a problem-"
"Hey," Johnny said smiling down at her. "So let's see those results, but I will admit I'm going to be jealous of the kid I mean my looks plus your looks-"
"Johnny are you okay?" Chill asked as she looked between him and the postitive result.
"When we move out do you think putting a skeet shooter in the backyard would be to much?" He asked looking at her.