A/N: Ha sorry for the waity it took me a week to type this up because I'm lazy heh. Hope this was worth my time. Well R/R!

"Tanner! We heard the news congratulations!" Belle beamed, happy for her brother. She went down the stairs and hugged him.

"Yeah we are very happy for you." Justin added.

Everyone nodded in agreement

"Yeah... yay for me..." Tanner said almost in a monotone not even trying to fake enthusiasm.

Belle picked up on his lack of enthusiasm and monotone. It was all to obvious anyway. This was a weird reaction. Weren't people normally hapy when they were going to have a baby? "Ok, what's wrong?" She asked letting go of him.

"Wrong nothing's wrong. If anything I'm Mr. Right. everything's fine just... peachy."

Shannon rolled her eyes. "Don't bloeve him Belle! He's lying I can tell!"

"Ofcourse I'm not. How thick do you think I am?"

Shannon opened her mouth to say something. "On second thought don't answer that."

Hayley groaned. "Oh come on! Do I have to do all the dirty work around her?" Hayley waited for an answer, but got none. She grew impatient. "Ok fine I'll do it! Come on Tanner tell me all about it."

Tanner shook his head. "Naw don't feel like it."

"Please!" Hayley then resorted to her infamous pout.

"No! Not the puppy dog pout!" Tanner groabed.

Soon everyone was doing it, outnumbering Tanner.

Tanner finally gave in. It wasn't very hard to make him cave. "Oi! Fine I'll tell you!"

Everyone's ears were waiting for Tanner to tell them what was up. "Anytime now!" Dylan said annoyed.

"I don't want to a father. Not now." Tanner mumbled

"Why not?" Belle asked.

"Yeah?" Everyone asked along with Belle's questioning.

"Because I'm not bloody ready!"

"Maybe you will be as time passes" Shannon said with a nod.

"I doubt it. I mean I'm going to be responsible for another life! I'm not ready for that kind of responsibility! I don't really think I want it right now."

"Well the baby's coming rather you like it or not." Belle said.

"Gee thanks for the information!" Tanner said bitterly.

"No need to get so snippy!:

"Sorry" Tanner muttered. "It's just... I didn't expect this so soon... you know?'

They all nodded. "It's ok you'll make a great father"

"Oh! So now you all have faith in me!?"

"We've already had faith in you we were just playing with you.

"You have?" Tanner asked, surprised

"Ofcourse we have!" They all said in unison.

"Then why didn't you show it?" Tanner asked

"Well err..."

"We were using reverse psychology on you." Shannon said with a nod saving everyone.

"Ye- What's that?" They asked.

"You know. Like we did pretending to believe he couldn't do it so he'd prove us wrong" Shannon explained.

"Oh!" They all nodded in understanding.

"You're way smarter than us Shannon!" Justin said with a laugh.

"I know!" Shannon said with a sense of pride.

"Hey! I'm smart!" Tyler chirped.

"Aww! Yes you are!" Belle cooed kissing him on the top of his head.

"Hey again!" Shelby said popping up out of nowhere which was usually what Shannon did.
"Shelby! Hey!" Tanner grinned waving along with everyone else.

"Shelby!" Tyler chirped running to hug her. What can I say TYler loved to hug people.

"Wow I never expected such a warm welcome!" Shelby said with a laugh picking up tyler to hug him then put him back down after a few minutes.

"What can I say Shelby you're like family." belle said as everyone nodded their heads in agreement.
"Aww thanks guys that's so sweet!" Shelby said appreciatively.

Everyone just shrugged as if to say 'Don't mention it'. Everyone was silent for a few moments.

Then there was a knock at the door. "Anyone going to get that?" Belle asked.

Everyone just stared at her blankly, not responding.

Belle sighed, "All right, All right I'll get it"
Belle then headed towards the door, turning the doorknob until the dor opened. Standing right before her were both Ethan and Jenna. "Ethan?! Jenna?!"

"Well hello to you too.."

"Oh... I'm sorry. I'm just surprised to see you both here is all." Belle said apologetically.

"Well... sorry we just came so maybe you could help us going ring shopping for Jenna..."

Belle put her face in her hands and groaned recieving a confused look from Ethan. "Etha... you're killing mer?!"

"What?" Ethan asked cluelessly.

"You're not supposed to bring Jenna with you when we go ring shopping." Belle sighed.

"See! I told you!" Jenna muttered jabbing ethan with her elbow hard on his side.

"Err... sorry I didn't know.." He mumbled looking down at his feet.

Belle shrugged. "Well I guess we can just-"

"Go anyway!" Jenna chirped in cutting Belle off as if though to finish her sentence, but that wasn't at all what Belle had, had in mind. "Besides belle the three of us haven;'t hung out all together since well... Hogwarts!"

Ethan nodded. "Yeah so what do you say?"

"I don't know... I'm needed." Belle said glad that she had came up with such a great excuse.

"I'll be fine. Go ahead. Shelby and I can take care of things. Enjoy yourself for once!" Tanner said with a nod, Shelby followed suit.
"Great then let's go!" Jenna said eagerly dragging belle out the door Ethan following behind.

Tanner shook his head grinning. "Kids..."

Shelby laughed. "those were the days, huh?"

Tanner nodded. "Indeed. The best days of my life."

"Hayley has a cat! Hayley has a cat!" Tyler chanted followed by a shriek from Annabelle.

"What? Mom and Dad never agreed to let Hayley have a cat. I'll handle this..." Tanner said going up the stairs to investigate futher.

Tanner had observed that the shriek had come from Annabelle's room. It was kind of obvious anyway since that''s usual where Annabelle was. He went into the room to find a peculiar sight. Before his very own eyes he saw Annabelle huddled in a ball almost on her bed, MOnty (her rat) in her hands.

"Don't worry Monty I won't let that evil kitty cat hurt you." Annabelle reassued her rat his beady black eyes filled with fear.

On Rachelle's bed was not Rachelle, oh no, it was Hayley as well as a fluffy gray ball, that seemed to be a cat, perched on her lap. "I know how tasty that rat looksd, but I'll get you your own." Hayley cooed.

That really freaked Tanner out beyong reason hearing Hayley talk in that way to another living thing. "Hayley?"

Hayley cleared her throat instantly looking up. "Yes?"

"Where did you get that... 'thing'?" Tanner asked. He was never particularily fond of cats.

Hayley glared at Tanner petting her pet protectively. "It's not a 'thing' it's a cat. Her name is Sophie." Hayley said in a matter of fact tone.

"That's great, but where'd you get it... I mean..." Tanner cleared his throat. "Sophie..."

"Fred and George found her outside their shop one day when I was working there and I volunteered to take it home. I thought Annabelle here would be happy being such a tree hugger."

"I like cats, but she'll eat Monty!" Annabelle exclaimed holding her rat close. "Who cares about your stupid rat!" Hayley shouted petting sophie who in turn purred.

"Oh well I-"

"All right! All right!" Tanner said trying to keep the peace. He never really got the point of why Hayley couldn't get a cat. She seemed already very attached to it and he didn't want to be the bad giy he left that job up to his mother or Belle. "Hayley, how long have you had it- I mean Sophie?"

"About... 2 weeks."

"2 weeks? Anf you've been taking care of it all this time?"

Hayley nodded.

"Well if you're taking care of it I don't see why you can't have it."

"Yes!" Hayley cheered.

Annabelle groaned. "It's not fair! You like Hayley better than me!"

"I'll tell you what Annabelle... wait a mninute Hayley why're you in Annabelle's room?" Tanner questioned.

Hayley shrugged. "I was bored... plus I wanted to get away from Justin for awhle."

"All right well see you guys." Tanner said walking out of the room.

"What was that about?" Shelby assked as Tanner came down the stairs.

:You don't want to know.."

Shelby shrugged. "Ok..."