I am so sorry it has taken me so long to post a new chapter! Just a short one here, not that my chapter's are ever very long, to get things rolling again. Enjoy... I hope.

Chapter Thirty-Five

As can be expected Nudge and Iggy's parents didn't take the news of the Pregnancy very well at first.

Nudge and Iggy decided not to get married. They didn't want to only get married because of the baby. Melanie- Nudge's mum- was really pushing on the marriage idea, but once the whole shock of the pregnancy died down, she supported Nudge and Iggy in the decisions they made.

Melanie was a rock for them. She went to their appointments and went shopping with them. She was everything you'd expect of Melanie, protective as ever, but always there when you need her.

Nudge planned to stay in school as long as she could. She was just going to see how things went, to see if she could cope, but she knew eventually she'd have to quit school at least for a little while. Iggy had said he'd quit school and get a real job- then the job he had part time in the science lap of his school- but we all convinced him to finish his course and get his certificate. Nudge wanted him to finish what he started. She told him they'd make it work. Iggy's course was three years long. After that he was to get a job and he would have a stable income.

The baby was due in December, it was March when Nudge found out she was pregnant. The only people who knew about the pregnancy were Nudges family, Iggy's family, me and Fang, the twins and Ella. And we tried to keep it that way for as long as possible.

I walked into the school library in search of Nudge. We planned to meet in here at the table at the far right hand side of the large room where we always sit when we are in here, but I can see Nudge isn't at the table. I walk in and out of the isles of book shelves.

Maybe she decided to look for a book while she was waiting; I did get out of class ten minutes late. I have a crazy hard assignment due next Monday that I needed to get some help on from my teacher after class. My teachers name is Bill Blinky, which we all had a good laugh about, you will too, if you're familiar with the famous Blinky Bill- the Koala.

"Max." I look to my left towards the non fiction section and see Nudge sitting on the carpeted floor leaning up against the shelves behind her, surrounded by books.

"Doing some light reading?" I ask, joking at the amount of books around her, and the size of them.

She smiles. "Something like that."

I take in what she's wearing super skinny light pink jeans and a white baby doll top that's fitted to her waist then falls out loosely. I don't know why she's wearing a top like that; she's not even showing yet.

"What are you reading?" I ask.

"I was looking for self help books on-" She stop's talking and looks around. "On you know what." She finishes, lowering her voice.

"Oh? Let me see." I sit down beside her and pick up the book closest to me. "Be the best self you can be." I read. I pick up another. "Parenting guide for dummies?" I laugh.

"I know pathetic right?" Nudge laughs as well looking a little embarrassed.

"No. Not pathetic."

"It is! You can say it."

"No."

"Come on."

"Well, maybe a little." I say, trying to hide my smile, and we both end up laughing.

"I like that we can joke about it." Nudge says. She puts the book she's holding down and turns to face me fully. "Mum offered for me to go move back in with them. She even said Iggy could come and live with us."

I look up at her face from the books I was looking at. "Oh? Is that what you want to do?"

"No! I want to say home with you. Are you okay with that? Things might get a little crazy."

"Of course I'm okay with that! I'm glad you're staying, I'd miss you too much if you moved out." I smile at her. "Who'd wake me up at ungodly hours to tell me about their dreams in fear that they'd forget by morning. And who'd cook for me? And who'd write me little message's on the white board. And who'd watch musicals with me?"

She tips her head back and laughs. "No body. No one could be as great of a room mate as me." Nudge grins nudging me with her elbow. "And you." She adds. "Who would write messages back to me? And who'd make me burnt cookies? And who would I fight over the remote with? And who'd drag me out of bed in the mornings, so I'm not late to school and get into trouble?"

"Exactly! Obviously we've just established that we are so compatible, and it just makes sense to live together."

"Obviously!" Nudge agrees. "Maybe we should get rid of Fang and Iggy and live together for ever, too old maids and their cats."

"We'd have to get the cats first."

"That's okay. My dad just bought a kitten for my mum."

"Your mum hates cats! Didn't she swear off animals, say you weren't animal people?"

"I know!" She laughs. "Yeah. She offered it to us."

I think about it for a minute. "We can't have a cat in our apartment." But it could be fun.

"Yes. I told her that."

Nudge looks confused for a minute. "How did we get onto cats?"

"I don't know. Let's go to our table."

I help Nudge put the books back, then we go and sit down, getting out our home work we had planned to work on, me writing an essay on the importance of proper grammar. And Nudge designing a security program on her laptop.

"So, did you want to go and visit Gazzy?" I ask Nudge after a couple minutes.

She takes a minute to answer, and when she does she doesn't look up from her computer. "I was thinking we could all go down, and- you know, get one more trip in all together before every thing's different."

"We'll still be together and take trips when the babies born."

"Yes, but it won't be the same."

"We'll all go down. I'm going over to Angel's house tonight; we can ring Gazzy while I'm there."

"Okay. Great, I'll ask the others. This should be good. Maybe if everyone's free we can go next weekend."

"Sound's good to me."

The six of us did go on that trip to visit Gazzy in Sydney the weekend after Nudge and I talked about it. Nudge and I drove up on Friday morning and we got there twelve hours later and the others arrived mid day on Saturday.

We spent most of our time on Bondi beach while Gazzy worked on the weekend then we all went out on Monday and walked around the city.

We didn't talk about the baby. It was as if we had a silent agreement not to. It was great to see Gazzy in his element. We even got to witness him in action. We sure him go out on his paddle board and bring two little boys in. There were fine and thought the rescue was the best thing that happened to them.

On the morning we were to go home Nudge had really bad morning sickness. So she took Angels ticket for the plane.

Angel drove home with Fang and me. It had always been the plan that Fang would drive home with Nudge and I. Fang drove most of the way, though Angel and I did take our turns.

When Fang was driving Angel and I sat in the back seat leaning against each other and slept with a blanket pulled up to our chins. It felt nice spending some time with Angel even if we didn't talk all that much. We made plans to spend the day together when we got home.