Recap: Planning for the baby had already started. In this chapter, Harper's baby shower goes well. Until...
*~(December)~*
Harper was pulling out her second "famous" pizza out of the oven, and set it right next to the other pizza, along with stacking the fresh batch of cookies.
Alex, who was bringing down Harper's stomach cast for the baby shower (A paper mache cast of Harper's baby bump) after painting it, saw the cake that sat on the bar and quietly snuck over to it. Harper's home made icing was always amazing. She was slowly moving her finger to dip it into the corner of the blue cake.
"Alex, don't even think about it." Harper didn't even have to to look over her shoulder. She knew Alex that well.
In frustration, Alex snapped her fingers. She then decided to try again, but being a bit more quiet.
Harper turned around. "Alex, go ahead. Try." Harper waved her spatula to the cake.
Alex's finger only touched the pedestal when Tina abruptly appeared on the counter. "Alex Russo. Your cholesterol is bad as it is." She said as she jumped off the counter"Here, have some celery." She held up a stick of celery in front of Alex's face.
Alex angrily snatched it out of her hand, and ate it with the look of disgust plastered on her face. Harper simply laughed. "I learned my lesson from three years ago. Now all of my baked goods are Mr. Russo, Alex and Max proof."
"Gotta go, I'm getting my wings re-sprinkled." Tina said with excitement as she shook her wings. "And Harper, I'm going to find the best gift for your baby." Tina happily waved, and disappeared.
Alex was angrily trying to pick out the strings of celery stuck between her teeth. "When can we eat that?" Alex complained.
"Not until the shower starts." Harper answered. "Justin! You can write on the cake now!" Harper shouted.
"Yes!" Justin ran to the top of the stairs. Justin was terrible at cooking. Black pancakes, eggs that had reduced to just burned scraps, etc. He tried to squirt "Baby Russo" on the top. This ended up looking like "Bub-y Ruos_-so".
"It looked a lot better in my head." Justin looked at the barely legible squiggles.
"You tried. It's from the heart." Harper hugged him. Harper's phone alarm went off, the baby shower was about to start. "Yay!" Harper clapped her hands.
*~(Later)~*
As Harper was was walking down the stairs, she saw some people filing in.
"Hi, Monica." Harper ran and gave her hug.
"Hi, Harper. You really went all out with the blue." She laughed as she pointed to the blue balloons tied to blue ribbons tied to the chairs. She gasped. "And you even have Baby Bottle Pop!" She giggled.
"Yeah. My parties like to have a theme." Harper laughed.
"I hope you don't mind that I invited Chet. That cute quarterback?" Monica asked, as she pointed to a tall beefy guy in a letterman jacket.
"Oh, not at all." Harper smiled.
"Great!" Monica smiled and went to go put her gift on the table.
Many of the other cheerleaders had brought "dates", which Harper didn't mind at all. Most of the people in the sewing club, and The Alien Language League had come together.
Theresa, for novelty reasons, pinned a Mommy badge on Harper, and a Daddy badge on Justin. All of the girls had found it cute..
After everyone ate, it was time for Harper to open her gifts. Harper sat in a chair, while everyone surrounded her, Theresa had the camera, and Harper's parents were on Skype video chat (So it's technically like being there).
Harper threw out the blue tissue paper, and pulled out a pair of red overalls with matching red new born Converse.
"Aw! Thank you, Jenny!" Harper smiled and held up the out fit for everyone to see.
After that, Harper put it back into the bag and set it on the other side of her along with all the other opened gifts, she unwrapped a blue stroller from her parents, and a swing from Jerry Max, and Theresa.
She also got a mobile, heaps of clothing, a couple rattles, a lullaby music player, pacifiers, and a huge package of Disney bottles. The cheerleaders had all chipped in and bought a high chair, the sewing club had chipped in and bought a car seat. Harper felt incredibly guilty for getting such great gifts from her friends (Though they were all obviously happy to buy them). After the gifts were done, Alex ran to the back to get her gift.
"I got you a diaper bag." Alex held up a pink plastic glittered tote bag.
Harper smiled and gave Alex a (strangled) hug. "Thank you Alex." Harper gave her a big grin.
Justin pulled Alex aside. "Who's gift are you piggy backing off now?" Justin asked.
"What? I am offended. I actually bought it." Alex replied angrily. "And besides, I don't see a gift from you up here." She told him.
"I'll have you know, Alex, I sold a quarter of my action figures just to pay for this baby, and I might have to sell more." He sternly replied.
Alex was speechless. Those dolls, er, action figures were Justin's pride and joy. "Not anymore." Alex thought.
*~(Later)~*
The last person had left and Alex and Harper were sitting at a table counting the pieces of fabric people had given her for the one hundred good luck wishes quilt.
A few examples:
From Harper's parents- A purple and green sequined cloth. So their grandson will be very Finkleish.
From Kenny (A member Justin's old Alien Language League)- A cloth that depicted flying saucers. So that he would believe.
From Gerdie (A member of Harper's sewing club)- A cloth that depicted "A+"s and pencils. So that the baby would have his parents' smarts.
From Betty- A cloth that showed baseballs and footballs, and different sports. So the baby could be athletic.
"Great turn out this year." Alex laughed then pointed to the pile of gifts.
"Yep." Harper laughed.
Jerry sucked the helium out of the balloons. "Girls, we are about to clean up here, could you take the stuff up to the baby's please?" Jerry said in a high pitched voice.
"Dad, I wanted to suck the helium out of some." Justin whined as he held up deflated balloon.
"And to think, he is going to be raising a kid." Alex chuckled as she grabbed all the fabric.
"Well anyway, want me to help?" Justin asked as he threw the balloon at Jerry.
"Sure." Harper said as she picked up the bag of clothes.
Justin grabbed the high chair box, and all of them went up stairs.
Max went outside to take away the sign (Which was a card board stand up of a stork holding a blue bag). He saw Zeke walking over to the him.
"Zekester." Max greeted as he gave him a high five. "What are you doing here?" He asked.
"Visiting for Christmas." He happily answered. "Who's baby shower is this?" he pointed to the sign.
"Harper and Justin's." Max absentmindedly replied.
"Harper and Justin?" Zeke slowly asked, wanting to make sure what he heard was correct.
Max realized what he had said, but it was too late. Zeke angrily stormed in. Max followed in.
Theresa and Jerry stopped in their tracks. They knew Zeke was royally mad at Harper for breaking up with him. "Zeke, we're uh... closed. You should come back tomorrow." Jerry was trying to lead Zeke out the door.
"Um No." He angrily replied. "Where's Harper and Justin?"
Coincidentally, Alex, Harper and Justin were all walking down the stairs laughing. Harper saw Zeke. She nervously tapped on Justin's chest to get his attention. Justin looked. He froze.
"Hey Zeke." Alex nervously waved.
"Cut the crap." He furiously replied. This was the first time anyone (Except for Harper) had seen him this mad. "So I was right, you did break up with me just to be with Justin!"
"Zeke.." Harper was going down to console him, but he backed away. But he immediately went to Justin. "And you! You were my best friend. How could you steal my girlfriend?" He was even more furious. He ignored the fact that Jerry and Theresa were still in the room.
"I didn't steal your girlfriend. She broke up with you, because you act like a kid." Justin replied out of frustration.
Zeke was about throw a punch, Justin blocked it, and that prompted a fight. Alex and Jerry broke it up.
"Stop this!" Alex yelled.
"I'm going to talk to Zeke outside." Harper angrily grabbed him by his coat sleeve and lead him outside.
"Listen, Zeke, I seriously don't know what your problem is, but you do not have to take it out on Justin." Her voice was stern. She ignored the cold and the snow.
"He's the reason why you broke up with me." He replied. His neck was getting red from the anger.
"No! I broke up with you because you acted like a freakin' kid all the time! I couldn't have a real conversation, you were so clingy, I couldn't take it." Harper was breaking down into tears. She didn't want to say this. When she broke up with him, she simply said things that would sound calm, but that didn't spare his feelings like she had expected. "In the end, we had nothing in common. We just didn't." Harper's tears had calm down.
"Yeah? Well, you promised me that I'd be your first, and you WANTED to WAIT after WE GOT MARRIED!" He yelled at the emphasis of those words.
"I promised you that, but, Justin wasn't an exception. It just happened." Harper wiped her eyes. But she thought. Maybe he was. He was her first crush.
"You say we have nothing in common? Yeah, try looking at you and Justin. Whatever." Zeke walked away.
Harper wanted to yell that her and Justin weren't dating. But found it useless. She sadly walked back inside.
AN: Baby shower part wasn't really a big plot thing, but it's just that usual "Pregnant ritual" thing. But I didn't want to give, like, every single detail of it, because I like to get down to the nitty gritty. ;P
I had fun writing the fight. :)
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