Author's Note: Greetings, earthlings! I know I am late updating and I am so so sorry! I hate being held in suspense and I can only imagine you do too. So I will stop blabbering and let you get reading! On with the story!

Megan

"Are you sure?" I ask into the receiver. "We really wouldn't want to intrude." Emma Hawthorne (apparently Chadwick now) just invited Cassidy, Tris, Simon, and me to her house for the evening. Coincidentally, they're celebrating tonight too. I guess Stewart just got a new job or something.

While Emma insists that it will be "no trouble at all," I glance down at the ring on my left hand. I'm still shocked. Amazed. Awestruck. Bewildered. Though I've never admitted it to anyone but Simon, I still play the synonym game with myself . . . all the time.

Thinking about the synonym game reminds me that I'm still on the phone with Emma, and I snap back to reality. "—and Jess and Darcy are already here, so if you four all came over too, it would be almost like a book club daughters reunion!"

I smile. "That would be fun," I reply slowly. I'm a little hesitant to drop by the house of someone that I haven't talked to in over five years, but this might be our last chance to see everyone before we head back to London for good. And I need a little more spontaneity in my life.

I look at Simon, Cassidy, and Tristan, who are lounging on the little sofa and beds of our hotel room and wonder if they'll go for it. Cass and Tristan seem like they're pretty go-with-the-flow since they're stuck here in this hotel until they can get out to see Cassidy's new nephew in California. And Simon's so over the moon right now that I think he'd probably be willing to go skydiving if I asked him to.

So I surprise myself and say into the receiver, "Alright. What's the address?" I punch what Emma tells me into the GPS on my phone. As luck would have it, their apartment building is only one street over from the hotel we're staying in, right here in Boston. It's a good thing too, because the rental car Simon and I (wow, I love the sound of that!) have is only a two-seater, and Cassidy and Tristan don't even have a car; they expected to be out of here by tonight.

As we head out of the hotel and walk through the warm spring evening, Simon slips his hand into mine.

"So," he says softly. "One question: Did you see it coming?"

I tilt my head up and smile at him. "Honestly?" I ask. "Nope." I glance back down at the ring on my finger. Whenever I imagined getting engaged, I always pictured it being on top of the Eiffel tower where we had our first real kiss, or on the park bench along the bank of the Seine where he first told me he loved me, not in a hotel room in Boston. But now that it's all said and done, I realize that I wouldn't have wanted it any other way. "The rose petals on the floor were a nice touch," I say with a wink.

Simon grins. "That was Tristan's idea," he admits. He turns back to where Tristan and Cassidy are walking behind us hand in hand. "Nice call on the petals, Tris!" he calls, and Tristan grins.

"I told you bro, I know what the ladies love!" Tristan says with a sly wink.

"Oh do you now?" queries Cassidy teasingly, waving her ring-less left hand under his nose. "Which would be why you haven't put a ring on it?"

Tristan blushes as Simon and I crack up and head down the street.

We eventually reach the Chadwicks' apartment, where Emma, Stewart, Jess, and Darcy – is it safe to assume that they're married? – are all sitting in the dining room, which not surprisingly, is filled with books. I see a laptop open at the end of the table and realize that Becca and Theo are joining us via video chat.

"We decided that it wouldn't really be a reunion without Becca, who happens to be out in Minnesota," says Emma. "They can't join us in person, but video chat is the next best thing, and Becca happened to be online, so I thought, 'What the hey?'"

"Did you fill her in?" I ask, wiggling my left hand in front of the screen. I hear a computerized shriek come through.

"MEGS! CONGRATULATIONS!" she cries. Then she lowers her voice. "Was it Simon?"

"Hi, Becca; hey, Theo," calls Si, coming up behind me.

Becca's face splits into a grin. "I'll take that as a yes."

After hellos and brief introductions (Jess is as short as ever, but I think Darcy's gotten taller; Becca got her hair cut since the last time I saw her, and I notice a diamond sparkling on her left hand; and Emma's just as cheerful as ever but has trimmed down a lot since high school), we all settle in around the table. It's quiet for a moment.

"Well," starts Emma, "I guess we should catch each other up on the past before we discuss the present. I mean, it's been, what, five years since we were last all together?" Heads bob up and down. "Anybody wanna go first?"

I see Jess and Darcy across from me exchange a glance, and Darcy gives Jess a little nod. I think I detect a hand squeeze under the table.

"Umm," says Jess tentatively, "I guess I will." She stands up. "Tonight seem to be a big night for just about everyone, because before we heard about the promotion or the engagement, we were coming with some news of our own. Here's the thing…" She looks at Darcy again, who smiles at her encouragingly, and then she turns back to the rest of us.

"…I'm pregnant," she says finally.

The room goes silent as eight jaws hit the floor.

"And I'm having twins."

Author's Note: Holy cow! BOMB = DROPPED. Did you see that one coming? I know some of you did because of your comments - I read them all. :) But yes, Jess is pregnant - with twins. I wonder how everyone in the MDBC will react to this news... tune in next time to see!

Hopefully you appreciated my attempt at Smegan (Mimon?) fluff and the latest bit of serendipity that has been sprinkled upon our heroines! I will try very very hard to update within 2 weeks, but no promises as the start of school looms nearer and nearer. As always, let me know what you think! Also, if you have any ideas for something that may have happened to any member of the group (guys included) since they all last saw each other, comment it or PM me and I will try to work it into the next chapter - I am short on ideas.

See you soon!

Anna