Bella sat on the edge of the bed, trying to put together the bits and pieces of her conversation with her brother, Micheal Bachelor, a few moments ago. He didn't seem overly thrilled to be an uncle for the third time to his sister's third child, but maybe he was busy. He was the Micheal Bachelor, day and night, and, of course, hottest businessman to the extreme, and had many girls constantly throwing themselves at his feet twenty four seven, seven days a week, four weeks a month, twelve months a year and so on. Of course, as Micheal was a busy man, he could've easily been busy and was annoyed to take the call from Bella, as he would've instantaneously assumed that it was one of his colleagues asking if he had taken those notes, or if he could send the SimmerPoint, or email them the spreadsheet, which was understandable. Bella imagined being a business woman, frequently getting angry emails from her boss, frustrating calls from colleagues, and typing out spreadsheets constantly, twenty four hours, every day of the week. Even then, Bella still thought he would've managed to find the spare time to answer the call, and sound genuinely excited for her when she had told him that she was pregnant. She thought at last a "Congrats, Bella!" or a "Congratulations, Bells!" would've been nice enough and left her decently satisfied with bothering to call him about the new addition.

"Alexander, Cassandra! Up here, please!" Bella called for her two children with a half hearted smile on her face.

Alexander and Cassandra walked up the stairs with happy smiles on their faces, since they had just conquered a load of Simanities and Maths homework together, with only Alexander's curiosty in the way of a perfect run of homework. Bella ushered the both of them to sit on the edge of the bed, and Mortimer held a fake emotionless expression so he could decide what emotion to feel, depending on what the kids made of the news, since they always made Mortimer and Bella's job a little bit harder, because they always had different emotions and thoughts on things than they thought they would've.

"So..." Bella began as she fumbled for the right words. "So, guess what, kids?"

"What?" Alexander and Cassandra asked in sync, in an obviously annoyed tone.

"Kids.." she began again, and paused to gulp, still not sure how the two would take the news. "Kids, I'm...I'm pregnant?"

At first, all the kids thought about was the fact that their mother phrased it as a question rather than the news at hand. Then Cassandra started to feel a little bit embarrassed and sheepish, because she'd actually guessed this, and that's what she'd tried to hide her brother from. The WooHoo moment with Mortimer and Bella in the bed, which Cassandra had tried in vain to make her brother avoid, but, as the saying says, curiosity killed the Sim. He saw the hearts fly out of the bed and the pillows flying up and crashing down valiantly, and still was determined enough that it didn't seem as if it had scarred him for life, but she could tell it had from when she dragged him away from the music and commotion. She glanced at Alexander who was opposite Bella, wearing the same expression as Cassandra.

Bella glanced at her two children, waiting anxiously for at least Cassandra to respond to this news, but even Cassandra seemed vacant, awkward, embarrassed, allbeit not excited about the fact that she would be getting a new sibling, whether that were a brother or sister. Let alone that Bella fell pregnant in Autumn, or as the Goths had labelled it, 'The Lucky Season', as it was the season when most of the Goth family was born, and they practically worshipped it. Cassandra was an autumn baby, as was Alexander, even Mortimer and Lolita were lucky autumn babies, it felt as if it ran in the Goth bloodline to be an autumn baby. Bella, however, like Micheal, was not an autumn baby. But what did it matter, they were all a family and they all stuck together, through thick and thin, and they supported eachother until the Cowplants came home. Except, this time, it was a rather silent moment that Bella received, upon delivering the news of the new baby to Cassandra and Alexander.

"So..that's...that's..." Alexander choked on his words. "That's what you were doing. In the bed. Last night. That's what got Cassa scarred for life. That's what you did. And what's worse, you did it to me too."

"I was trying to stop him, I swear! I said to leave you be and he didn't! He came up here! He saw the hearts! He heard the strange music! He saw the pillows! Mom, I can't believe you! Why did you lie to him?" Cassandra spat. "Don't you care about us? Don't you care about what we see and hear? Don't you care? Bloody hell, Mom, bloody hell!"

"Cassandra!" Mortimer lectured from the back of the room.

"Cass...I thought...I thought..." Bella began, choking on tears. "I thought that you'd be happy for me.."

"I am, Mom, I am," Cassandra assured. "It's just..."

"She wanted to keep me safe, Mom. She wanted to be a good sister to me," Alexander finished.

Bella gave her son and daughter a hug and cried on Cassandra's shoulder. If only Bella hadn't said anything to Alexander when he had asked what was going on up there. If only they hadn't been up there for a suspiciously long time. Bella thought about it, and smiled. Maybe the kids were right all along. Maybe no news at first is the real good news.

Bella went downstairs and started cooking a serve of pancakes for her family. A party serve and two family serves, just so they had enough to go around. Just so they had enough to go around for Bella, Mortimer, Alexander, Cassandra, and future baby Goth. It was always good to have more than enouh just in case anyone wanted seconds in Bella's mind.

Bella and Mortimer sat at the heads of the dining table and ate together, with Alexander and Cassandra sitting next to each other.They both smiled at her.

"Congrats, Mom!" Cassandra said.

"Yeah, congrats Mom," Alexander echoed.

As if on cue, Micheal calls.

Bella picks up her mobile. "Hello?" she whispered into the phone.

"Congratulations, Bells!" an ecstatic Micheal Bachelor congratulated on the other side.

"Thanks. Thanks everyone," Bella responded, but to the whole table this time.

Everyone smiled. Just another day in Goth Manor, Cassandra thought, with a hint of a smile on her face.