Disclaimer: I do not own Degrassi.
Author Note: it's a little shorter than the others but the next few chapters will make up for it. A big thank you to Halawen for all your help in betaing and co-writing. Hope you all like it.
Maya's POV
It was the day we were going to find out the sex of the baby and were really excited to find out.
"It's a boy!" Dr. Sherman said giving a smile to me and Owen.
"Yes!" Owen said even though it wasn't actually his kid he was hoping for a boy. Because in his words "If it's a girl I don't want to go to jail for hurting a boy who goes near my little girl." See he's already acting like the daddy.
"Really." I said just as happy as Owen as I squeezed his hand in a loving way.
After the Dr. was done with everything and printed of a sonogram for us, and I changed, we exited out of the room and headed to the desk to make the next appointment. As we headed out of the office neither one of us could keep out excitement as we kissed when we got in the car.
"Come on we got to meet everyone at the Dot." I said forcing myself out of the kiss not really wanting to of course. I mean we did say we love each other but we haven't become official yet.
"Do we have to? I much rather sit here and make out with you" Owen whined before starting the car and driving towards the Dot.
"Yes we do. But maybe we can do that later when no one's around." I said squeezing his arm causing him to smirk in satisfaction.
When we reached the Dot I could see that everyone was there. The Bakers, Katie and Jake, Zig, Tris and the Misfits and they already had a table ready for us all when we walked in waving to Peter before heading to the table to share our news.
"So what are you having?" Both Katie and Becky shouted out before we could even sit.
"Guys let them sit before sprouting out something." Luke said laughing at the girls with Zig and the rest of the guys.
"Yeah let us sit or you might not find out." Owen said sarcastically as he helped me sit before sitting next to me.
"Sorry." The girls said sheepishly.
"It's ok. So are you guys ready to find out." I said playing along with Owen on sarcasm.
"YES!" Was heard around the whole table.
"How's a future hockey player with a little music genes sound to you guys." I said knowing that even with Cam as the father and not in the picture it will still know hockey along with my musical talent of course. Since that's how we planned on telling everyone and of course confuse everyone until Luke was the one to understand that.
"You're having a boy. That's awesome!" Luke said high fiving Owen and giving me a hug since he was on the other side of me, cluing in on everyone else on what was said casing a mayhem.
"I get a nephew to spoil." I heard from both of our siblings.
"You all will be considered Aunts and Uncles." Owen said pulling out the sonogram to show everyone with a smile on his face and holding my other hand before kissing me.
Owen's POV
"I'll talk with Heather this weekend and start planning your shower." Clare said.
The girls started discussing the shower until Peter came over and they all looked at him.
"Hey Owen could you stick around and work a shift we're pretty busy today?" Peter asked.
"Sure no problem." I nodded knowing we could use the money.
"Thanks, if you need another shirt there's a couple behind the counter." Peter said.
"We should get out of your way and let you work. You two want a ride home?" Jake asked looking at Maya and Tristan.
"I want to stay here for a while with Owen." Maya said and kissed my cheek.
"Zig's coming over can you give us a ride?" Tris asked and Jake nodded.
Maya hugged her sister and the others started saying goodbye to her and me.
"I'll come over sometime this week and we can plan some more." Clare said hugging Maya and then she hugged Peter. "Bye Peter." She said hugging the older boy tightly.
"Later Baby Edwards," he said kissing her cheek she started walking out with Eli's arm around her and then Peter called to them. "Hey I need to talk to you two at some point." He said in a stern voice.
Clare knit her eyebrows together and I laughed a little, I had a feeling it was about what I'd said the other night and Clare not waiting until marriage anymore.
"You sure you want to stick around?" I asked Maya when the others had left.
"I'm sure." She smiled.
"Can I get you anything?" I offer.
"Juice would be good and a muffin." She says.
"Coming right up." I smile.
I grab Maya's juice and muffin and take it to her, then grab a shirt from behind the counter and go back to the employee lounge to change. I worked for a couple of hours with no problem while Maya sat at the table; every time ours eyes met we smiled at each other. Everything was going fine until Bhandari and Tori walked in, they walked to Maya's table and sat down with her.
"Look it's little miss slutty Matlin." Tori snapped in a venom filled voice.
"Excuse me!" Maya exclaimed.
"You sleep with Campbell and are stupid enough to wear protection then trade favors with Owen to stay at his house." Tori growls.
"That's not what…" Maya starts but Alli cuts her off.
"Yeah sure, I know what Owen's like he once tried to pay me for a blow job." Alli scoffed.
I was about to step in when Maya loses it, must be the pregnancy hormones cause she went completely Hulk on the girls. First she reaches over the table grabbing a fistful of Tori's curls and slamming her head down to the table. Then she slaps Alli as hard as she can, Alli starts to scramble over the table to attack Maya and Peter and I step in. We grab Alli and Tori and pull them to the door.
"You two out, you're both banned for a week." Peter tells them.
"Peter that's not fair, she attacked us." Alli pouts.
"You both came in looking for trouble. Now get lost both of you." Peter demands.
The girls walk off and I go back to Maya. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah just upset I think I'll go home now." Maya says starting to walk for the door.
"What are doing?" I inquire.
"Walking home." She says looking back at me.
"No way it's too hot for you to walk, the doctor said you could get over heated easily and it's over a hundred degrees outside." I state.
"It's about time for your lunch go ahead and take her home." Peter tells me.
"Thanks Peter I'll be back in an hour." I tell him putting an arm around Maya and taking her to the car.
I drive her home and walk her in, Tris and Zig come down and she tells them about Tori and Alli. Tris takes her back up to his room and I heat up some leftovers for a quick lunch. I go up to say goodbye before heading back to work, Maya kisses me softly and I head back to work.
"How's Maya?" Peter asks when I go back in and the Dot is pretty empty.
"Okay, the hormones are messing her though. Tris and Zig will take care of her." I tell him.
"I can't believe Alli and the other girl would start stuff with a pregnant girl. Maya is so nice and sweet why would anyone want to start stuff." Peter said cleaning up the counter as I started to sweep up around the tables.
"That would be Tori Santamaria and would you believe she used to be friends with the rest of the niners, until she sided with Saunders and thought Maya should get rid of the baby." I said stopping and looking up at the older guy.
"What she sided with that jerk?" Peter said dropping everything and looking straight at me with a shocked look on his face.
"Yep and in the process lost her friends and boyfriend, and decided to become a bitch with Bhandari and to cause drama." I said getting pissed just at the thought of anyone trying to hurt Maya.
"Damn I always knew Alli was trouble and loved to cause drama but I didn't say anything cause I was friends with her brother Sav." He said before picking up what he dropped and finished cleaning.
"Pretty much, at least I grew out of that crush on her, and now I'm happy with Maya." I said with a smile on my face.
"Yeah dude you act like a love sick puppy around her." Peter said making kissing noises at me laughing.
"Shut up I do not. Which by the way what would make a great first date. I want to make it really special for her especially since everything with her parents went down." I said looking up at the guy who I only knew for a few weeks but considered him like a great friend/ big brother.
"Yeah you never did tell me what happened that night bits and pieces, but not all." Peter said coming around and sitting at the table I was sweeping around causing me to sit down across from him.
"Well basically her parents gave her an ultimatum. Move back home after adopting out the baby or keep the baby and be disowned." I said shaking my head at the thought of her asshole parents. "Obviously she decided to keep her baby and she's now permanently living with us."
"Wow what asses. Their daughter will still need them, but she does have you to be there so that's a little better." He said shaking his head at the thought.
"Yeah my parents love Maya, hell that night was the night we admitted to loving each other and my parents are alright with everything. They even agreed to Martin's dad to come look at the house to see if anything could be remodeled to fit both the baby Maya and myself in the same house." I said getting a goofy smile on my face at just thinking of myself Maya and our son being a family.
"So you want to make this date romantic right." Peter said knocking me out of my thought.
"Yep so I do need to see what night I'm off so I can sort out any kind of date, I don't want it to be like rushed or anything." I replied looking at Peter.
"Well let's take a look at the schedule." He said as he got up and headed into the employee lounge with me behind him.
"Your off on Friday how about that." Peter said looking up from the paper with the schedule on it and straight at me.
"That will be perfect and I think I have an idea." I said remembering Maya saying she wanted to go see that new romantic movie Safe Heaven.
"What?" Peter questioned as we headed back to the café and noticed we hadn't had any customers in a while and it was closing time, you would think on a Saturday night people would be hungry oh well quicker I can get home to see Maya.
"Maya's been wanting to see that movie Safe Heaven for a while. So I'm thinking a romantic dinner then a movie." I said getting an excited just at the thought.
"That's awesome dude. Where would you take her to eat?" Peter said patting me on my back as we finished clearing the registers and putting everything away.
"I don't know. Got any ideas?" I said looking up at him.
"How about that Italian restaurant on the edge of town. I heard they have good food." He said as he flipped the sign to close and flipped the lights out.
"That's awesome dude. Thanks." I said as we walked out and watched Peter lock the doors before heading towards our cars.
"You're Welcome. Have a good night dude. Tell Maya I said hi." Peter said as he got into his car.
"Will do, have a good night to." I said with that driving off and heading home. When I reached home I seen all the lights on except my parents so they must of went to bed already. When I walked in I headed straight for the stairs to go see my girl and Tris.
"Hey guys. Zig go home." I said finding them in Tris room looking at colors and designs must be for the nursery.
"Yeah he went home around 7." Tris said as I sat next to Maya and kissed her hello.
"Alright cool. Are you alright after everything from this afternoon?" I said looking at Maya and rubbing circles on her back.
"Yeah Tris and Zig calmed me down and we've just been looking at baby things and thinking of where to set everything." Maya said looking at me before saying she missed me.
"I missed you to beautiful, and don't worry about those 2 they won't cause you or anyone else any drama, and Jake's dad is coming to look at the house to see if it could be extended to make it bigger or an extra room" I said side hugging her into my chest.
Maya's POV
It was Tuesday evening and the Martin-Edwards were on their way over to have dinner with us. After dinner Jake and his dad were going to look at the house to see about adding an extension and Clare and her mom were going to plan the baby shower with me and Heather. The doorbell rang and Tristan opened the door, everyone exchanged hellos and we all sat down at the table, which James had to put the extensions into to fit the nine of us.
"I checked the property line and ordinances for your block and I drew up a plan for…" Glen was saying when Helen cut him off.
"Honey save the talk for after dinner." She told him.
"Sorry this chicken is wonderful Heather." Glen changed the subject.
"So what were you thinking?" James asks.
"Well you have a couple of options we can extend off the back patio, put in insulation and carpeting and it would make a good sized nursery for the baby. Big enough to put in a bed for Maya and/or Owen for the first few months and then when the baby moves from a bassinet to a crib you can take the mattress out. We can put in custom shelving and paint it with chalkboard paint." Glen says.
"That sounds wonderful." I exclaim happily.
"What's the other option?" James inquires.
"We could knock out the west wall in the den and you would lose the downstairs linen closet but you wouldn't have to lose the entire back porch, we'd only extend off a portion of it. You could move the den to Owen's room because we'd be making one long room down here that could be divided into two later but Owen and Maya could both move down on end of the room and their son would be on the other." Glen informs us.
"Oh I like that one even better, and you said we could divide it into two rooms eventually?" I ask Glen.
"Yes it would be quite easy actually to add a wall with a door when the baby gets older or you want some privacy again. Both rooms would be a decent size so neither you nor the nursery would feel cramped." Glen informs us.
"That sounds perfect!" I exclaim and then look at Owen and his parents. "I mean to me it does." I blush.
"Sounds wonderful to me." Owen smiles.
"I think it sounds lovely, let's go with that." Heather said.
"Good we'll take measurements after we eat and we can start this weekend." Glen says.
After we finished eating the guys including Tristan went to the back of the house to start taking measurements and Heather, Clare, Helen and I sat down in the living room to start planning the shower.
"So Maya who will all be coming to the shower?" Mrs. Martin asked having a pen and paper ready.
"It would be really small, just you three, Tristan, Katie and Becky. I didn't really have that many to being with." I said thinking back to my mom not being there for me.
"Ok dear." Heather said while turning to the others girls to talk about what we should do for the shower.
They talked about games and when to have it and the details; I mostly listened unless they asked me a question. It was close to 10 when the Martin-Edwards left and everyone else headed off to bed except Owen and I. We were in the living room talking about everything tonight.
"I can't wait for everything to begin." I said excitedly.
"Me to babe. By the beginning of the school year the rooms should all be done and then we could decorate the nursery and both have a room to fit us all." Owen said putting his arm around me excited to get to share a room with me, I can't believe his parents were ok with it but I love them for that.
"Yep, and I can't wait to fall asleep in your arms every night." I said reaching up and capturing his lips to mine for a little make out session.
After we stopped kissing I realized I was getting tired and headed off to bed. As I got off the couch Owen stopped me by asking something.
"What are you doing Friday night?" He asked looking up at me with his adorable smile.
"Nothing why?" I asked looking at him strangely.
"Well I figure Friday night I could take you out on a date." Owen said getting up to get all the pillows and blankets for the couch.
"Really!" I said getting excited just at the thought.
"Yep. So be ready to have a great night." He said kissing me before heading to get some pajama pants from his room with me behind him.
"I will. I love you." I said kissing him goodnight before heading into Owens's room for the night.
"Love you to." He replied as he headed back downstairs.
Owen's POV
"Maya are you ready to go?" I asked standing at the stairs in a button up shirt and dressy blue jeans, with the sleeves pushed up.
"Yeah. Sorry I took so long." I heard from the stairs as she made her way down them dressed in that yellow dress I love so much on her.
"You look beautiful babe." I said kissing her quickly before showing her out the door with me behind her as we head to the car.
"You don't look so bad yourself handsome." Maya said as she got into the car with my help.
As we headed off to our first destination of the date night Maya had no Idea where we were going and kept asking all week, so I finally told her.
"Were going to have an Italian dinner at a restaurant on the edge of town and then go see a movie that you've been wanting to see for a while." I said seeing her face light up.
"Really, Owen this amazing thank you." She said kissing my cheek.
"You deserve it babe." I said pulling up to the restaurant.
After helping her out of the car and having a waiter show us where to sit and handed us our menus and getting our drinks, sprite for her, coke for me. It only took a few minutes to decide what to get.
"What would the two of you like to order?" the waiter asked looking between the two of us.
"The lasagna please." Maya said smiling up at the waiter.
"Me to please." I said handing both the menus to him.
While waiting for our meal we started talking about everything from the baby to how she's feeling and me working to, school starting back up in a couple more months. When the meal came and we ate I realized it was getting close to show time so I waved the waiter over to get the bill and paid for it. As we headed off to the theater to see Safe Heaven. I paid for our tickets and got us snacks as we headed into the theater and found seats in the top corner of the theater. I never really knew about the movie but throughout I couldn't keep my eyes off Maya. The way her eyes lit up at different parts and laugh at others. I put my arm around her so she could comfortable cause I know being pregnant in one of these seat couldn't be nice, but she never nagged about it.
After the movie was over I had one more stop to make before ending this great night. Nobody but Peter knew about me asking Maya to become my official girlfriend over the lake.
"Where we heading Owen your house is the other way." Maya asked confused about going in a different direction.
"Don't worry you'll find out." Since now the sun was just now setting over the lake.
When we reached our spot Maya was delighted you can say.
"Oh Owen this is beautiful. This night has been amazing thank you." She said leaning into my shoulder.
"All for you babe. You deserve nothing but the best." I said kissing the top of her head. As the sun was at the end of turning I figured it was a perfect time to ask.
"Maya I have something to ask you." I said turning her towards me.
"Yes Owen?" Maya looked up at me.
"Well I know we basically been skipping everything and doing it backwards since the beginning but I was wondering will you be my girl?" I said looking down at her.
"Yes Owen I'll be your girl. I love you Owen Milligan." She said kissing me heatedly.
"I love you to Maya Matlin. Forever." I said excepting the kiss from this amazing girl I could now call my girlfriend.
"Best Night Ever!" Was all I could think as we kissed.
