When Janet got back from her shopping trip she sat several bags down on the bed about the time Eddie came out of the shower wearing only a towel.
"What did you get me" he asked trying to gain access to the bags but Janet stood in front of him blocking his reach by distracting him with a kiss there was something she didn't want him to see and he knew it. "I don't care how much you spent" he smiled taking another swipe at the bags but Janet pushed him away. "What's in there you don't want me to see" he picked at her "Nothing, I just want it to be a surprise is all" Janet cringed "O-kay" Eddie made his way to the bathroom to get dressed and Janet sat the bags on the bench in her room.
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She was in the kitchen preparing food when she heard Eddie's voice cracking "Janet" she knew instantly he cheated and peaked in the bags. She closed here eyes and took a deep breath. He walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her "Is there anything you want to talk about" he asked scared to death
"Yeah, we do need to talk about something" she enjoyed his torture and he swallowed hard. "O-kay" he forced the words out
"You should know that I am... starting to get a little annoyed with your inablitly to delay gratification of any kind" Janet knew deep down he was going to peak in the bags and she tuned around to scold him.
"Well if you wanted me to be surprised you way over shot that one" Eddie had know clue what he should be saying and his face clearly showed it.
"It's not for me Eddie, it's for Darcy" Janet was almost ticked by his overly sized release of breath.
"You could have told me instead of just letting me find a pregnancy test, what was I supposed to think" Eddie was trying to come down off of an extremely nerve racking emotional roller coaster
"Serves you right, you shouldn't have looked when I asked you not to" Janet was irritated
"I think I learned my lesson" Eddie laughed but Janet pulled away from him. It was clear she wasn't very happy. "What's wrong" he asked clueless
"Nothing, It just sucks to know how you would feel about being stuck with me" Janet continued to move about the kitchen
"What are you talking about" Eddie asked beginning to become angry about her snippy attitude
"For Darcy's sake, maybe Ickey will be more of a man about it than you are" Janet all but slammed the bowl she was holding down on the counter beside Eddie.
"Time out, what's the real problem" Eddie grabed her arm and made her stand still in front of him.
"You say you can handle the consequences of being in this relationship but can you, if it really came down to it can you honestly say you wouldn't feel trapped" she asked
"I can with 100 percent complete honesty that I could never feel trapped in a relationship with you, even if something unexpected happened...like getting pregnant(Eddie swallowed hard)...I would love you just as much and I would be happy to see it through" Eddie spilled a little more than he necessarily wanted to chew but she needed to hear it and he could work out his own adolescent fears in private. Janet kissed him and went back to getting ready for the party.
"So, does Ickey know" Eddie asked about the time Darcy walked through the kitchen door.
"You told him" Darcy was upset
"No, somebody just doesn't understand that no peaking means NO PEAKING" Janet stated snatching the bag of chips from him.
"I want say anything" Eddie excused his self with a slap on Janet's bottom and went to put his shoes on. He occupied his self in the yard for a while knowing Darcy and Janet were busy finding out if she was indeed pregnant with David Eichorn's baby.
He was changing the porch light and working on a few minor things on Janet's well planned honey do list when the other ladies arived. They all ragged him on thier way inside.
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Eddie stuck his head inside the door and asked Janet to come help him for a second. She quickly went to ensure he manged to get the new house numbers straight. She made him adjust one and while he was he asked her "So"
"Now's not the time, everyone is watching us through the window" Janet pretended to be involved with the leveling of the numbers. He just had to show out and leave her with a kiss she wouldn't soon forget. Still embraced tightly and their lips pressed together he mumbled again "Is she"
"You can't tell him" Janet ordered "He's going to be in shock and probably act the same way I did" Eddie informed her "Then figure out a way to keep that from happening with out telling him his going to be a daddy"
"Ohh, well that should be a piece of cake" Eddie gave her another peck and headed to the truck
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Aubrey had pulled the blind fold off of Hannah once they made it into Janet's living Room. She wasn't entirely shocked that something of that nature would happen after all she was about to get married and the girls of Knight's Ridge new how to have fun.
Hannah was happy to see her co-worker and current friend of Ronnie, Carley came. She was young, still in training and worked part time doing an internship at the Vet Hannah worked for. Hannah had manged to talk Ronnie into a blind date at Sully's and it worked out well, they had gone out several more times. To every ones knowledge they were more on the friendship level than anything else.
About an hour into the gathering. Janet answered the knock at the door thinking it was Eddie trying to sneak back in. What she found was a Fireman that clearly wanted to start a few fires as opposed to putting them out. Janet tried to inform him he had the wrong house but Aubrey and Pizza Girl barged the door, guilty of pulling that alarm.
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Once the flames had died down, Hannah gathered her loot and went home the girls were helping Janet clean away the mess. "You know if the guy's find out their going to want one of their own" Pizza Girl laughed
"When one of them decides to get married, then they can have one" Darcy laughed forcibly
"I think we're probably safe on that one" Janet mumbled
"You and Eddie haven't talked about getting married" Carley asked
"I don't think I've ever heard Eddie say the word wife or husband for that matter" Janet didn't seem to be concerned as she straightened the pillows
"I just thought...it's just that you and Eddie seem so" Carley stumbled on her words
"We're okay" Janet smiled but now the wheels were turning faster than ever
"Hey I have an idea" she added and the girls piled around
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"So I wonder what the girls are doing" Owen asked and the guy's threw food at him. He was quickly informed that girl talk wasn't allowed. But they couldn't avoid the subject even if they had tried.
"How are things with Carley" Owen asked "She's hot" he added "She's alright" Ronnie didn't seem all that interested "What is wrong with you" Ickey asked "Nothing, I just don't feel the need to talk about it is all" Ronnie added "That's because they never do any talking, because their to busy..." Ronnie shot Nick a look "Sorry dude, but the walls are paper thin" Nick laughed "Tell me about it, listening to you two last night I almost hung myself" Ronnie recounted the noises "We didn't do anything last night" Nick was putting the pieces together. "Sure you did, who else would..." They both shuttered at the idea of the Commander and Leslie having sex as Eddie raked the pot towards him self
"How's living with Pizza Girl" Nick asked as Owen delt the cards and Eddie stacked his chips "Loud and wonderful in every conceivable way" Phil answered
"Speaking of conceivable, do you realize that we are almost thirty and there's only been one unplanned kid" Eddie sorted his cards then laid two of them down and turned up his beer. "Actually Kaitlin was a surprise" Owen added
"What are you getting at" Nick asked curious "Nothing, it's just I figure the odds are stacked against us and sooner or later it's bound to happen to one of us" The guy's listened intently
"You know there are ways to prevent that from happening, right" Ronnie asked
"Yeah but nothings a 100 percent and besides if we think like that, we would probably end up saying something stupid and insensitive if it did, seriously were not childern anymore, even Ronnie's in a relationship whether he wants to admit it or not" Eddie purposely avoided all eye contact with Ickey.
"Eddie is Janet pregnant" Phil asked "No, I was just thinking" he replied "Maybe you should stop" Ickey suggested
"Speaking of Janet, things seem to be working out pretty good in the Meadows/Latekka household" Owen was being cunning
"They are but it's not going to be the Meadows/Latekka household for long" The guy's were confused as Eddie threw more chips into the center of the table "Whose household is it going to be" Phil inquired "The Latekka/Latekka household if she say's yes" Eddie knew they would be caught off guard if he dropped that bomb on them.
"You're planning on asking Janet to marry you" Nick asked clearly in denial. "Yep, next weekend when we go up to Providence to see her grandparents, so keep your big mouths shut would ya" They all agreed to put it in the vault so to speak.
"Their here" there was a knock at the door and they unamimously volunteered Ronnie to shoe them away since he didn't have an overly strong attachment to any of them, they didn't know Carley was with them.