"I can't go to work today. Will you be okay taking the kids to school?" Aria moaned as she watched Jason get ready for work. He looked tired. She felt bad knowing that it was because he was up all night with her while she continued to vomit.

"Yeah, that's not a problem. You just stay in bed." he told her as he put on his shirt and kissed her forehead.

"Thank you.." she replied as she closed her eyes and quickly fell back to sleep.

She woke up a few hours later to a text from Jason.
From: Jason
'How you feeling baby?'

To: Jason
'Better than I was a few hours ago.'

From: Jason
'Good, do you want me to bring anything home for you?'

To: Jason
'No thanks sweetie.'

Aria fell back to sleep for a while before she was woken by a text from Hanna.
From: Hanna
'Aria, have you been sick? :('

To: Hanna
'yeah, I was throwing up all last night :('

From: Hanna
'so was I! still being sick now..'

To: Hanna
'that takeaway must not have been cooked properly. any word from Spencer and Em?'

From: Hanna
'no, not yet'

To: Hanna
'I'll text them and let you know, cause if we're all sick, we're going to have to let the restaurant know.'

From: Hanna
'yeah we will. let me know..'

To: Specner
'Spence, how you feeling today?'

From: Spencer
'I'm good. How are you feeling? :)'

To: Spencer
'Ill. Like stupidly ill :('

From: Spencer
'Aww honey, was it something you ate?'

To: Spencer
'I have no idea..'

Emily told Aria that she was feeling perfectly fine too. Aria called Hanna frantically.
"Are you on birth control?" Aria asked.
"Yeah, I've got the implant. Are you? What are you trying to suggest?" Hanna asked as she lay on her sofa with a hot water bottle resting on her stomach.
"If you weren't on birth control I would be suggesting that we might be pregnant.."
"Holy shit." Hanna quickly sat up. "I can't be pregnant!" Hanna stressed.
"You have the implant. Why are you stressing?"
"Implants have to be replaced Aria! Oh fuck, what if I missed my appointment the other week." Hanna got off the sofa and went into her kitchen.
"Call your doctor Han!"
Hanna walked over to her refrigerator and saw a doctor's note. "Fuck fuck fuck, I've just found a doctor's note I was meant to go to get it replaced.." Hanna mentally worked out when "..the day before Jason's birthday!"
"Hanna, that was nearly 6 weeks ago!"
"I'm going to cry.. Hold on! Are you on birth control?!"
"Yeah but I ran out of pills for like 2 weeks.."
"When did you get new ones?"
"A few days after Jason's birthday I think.."
"You obviously had sex on Jason's birthday. I heard you two upstairs when I snuck back in to get my bag." Hanna told her indifferently.
"Hanna? You can't just sneak into our house!"
"You gave me a key!" Hanna defended herself.
"To use in emergencies!" Aria told her.
"Excuse me, that was an emergency, my bag had my car and house keys in."
"Jesus, I can't believe that.." Aria moaned.
"Don't worry, you and Jason sounded hot. All that moaning and 'Ahh Jason!' and 'Come on baby'" Hanna laughed. "I was even a little turned on.." she admitted.
"You're gross..and the situation we are in is not a laughing matter incase that's slipped your mind." Aria reminded her. "Meet me at the cafe near the pharmacy. We need to get pregnancy tests."
Hanna groaned. "Okay well if I throw up on your shoes, it's not my fault."
"Whatever, I'll text you when I get there."
"Okay bye."
Aria hung up the phone and dragged herself out of bed and into the shower.

She met with Hanna less than an hour later.
"I'm scared." Aria told Hanna when they sat down to have a pre-pregnacy test coffee.

"Why? You're married, you already have children. It's not as if your entire life is going to be changed."

"Yeah, I already have children but that doesn't mean I can handle having another."

"Well fingers crossed neither of us are pregnant then."

Ten minutes later, they emerged from the pharmacy and both went to their houses to take the test within the privacy of their own home.

Hanna got home and locked herself in her bathroom, sitting on the edge of the bathtub, she sat staring at the box in which the test was in. Too scared to even handle it. After staring at it for a further 15 minutes, she decided to just do it. After downing two pints of water, she took the test and left it next to the sink. With no phone or clock near her she estimated when 3 minutes would be over. Getting off the bathtub she had returned to, she picked up the test and nearly screamed in relief. Negative. She wasn't pregnant.

Aria got home and took her test straight away. She left it to rest near the sink in hers and Jason's ensuite, two minutes later, she could hear him opening the front door. "Aria I'm home!" he called out.

Aria panicked and hid the test in one of the shoe boxes which just happened to be next to the door of the ensuite. "You okay?" Jason asked as he came into their room a few seconds later.

Aria smiled and nodded. "Much better."

"That's good. I'm glad it was just a one day bug. Or was it food poisoning?" Jason asked as he undid his shirt.

"I'm not sure." Aria shrugged her shoulders as she sat down on their bed. "You're home very early." she commented as she took off his trousers.

"Yeah.." Jason looked back over his shoulder towards her. "You don't look very happy to have me home early."

Aria smiled and shook her head. "I am. I promise."

"Good. Have you eaten?" he asked as she began to put on his jeans.

Aria sighed and stood up. "No, not yet. We could get something on the way back when we pick up the kids from school."

"Yeah okay."

After making small conversation for about 5 minutes while Jason turned on his laptop and read some emails, Aria reminded him they needed to go and pick up the kids.
"I just need to make some phonecalls and then we'll go." Jason told Aria as he walked out of their bedroom shirtless.

A few seconds after Jason left the room, Aria rushed to the shoebox. Opening it up, she saw the sign on the test she'd dreaded. Positive. She couldn't do this. Colton and Scarlett were only 4 and a half, still not at school full time, they were a handful when Jason was not home - especially Scarlett, Scarlett was still so attached to her and Jason that she would probably despise the baby for all the attention it was getting and what she was missing out on, Aria was looking forward to being able to work full time next september. She just couldn't bring herself to be happy about this pregnancy. She felt her breathing become heavier and heavier, she felt her throat tightening and couldn't hold in her emotions any longer. Sitting down on the floor, she started to sob into her knees which were brought up to her chest. She sat there until she heard Jason come into their room. "..that's fine. We'll speak soon. Bye." throwing his phone down onto their bed he looked over and saw Aria sitting down hiding her face from him. "Baby, what's the matter?" he asked worried that something had happened while he was downstairs. Squatting down in front of her, he put his hands on her knees and kissed the crown of her head as she continued to silently cry into her knees. Giving her knees a gentle squeeze, he asked Aria what was wrong again. After getting no response, he sat down next to her and wrapped his arms around her, pulling her closer to him. "What's the matter?" he whispered into her hair as she let her head fall down onto his shoulder.

"I'm pregnant.." she whispered back.

Jason's heart beamed at the thought of having another child. He loved being a father to Colton and Scarlett. "Why are you so upset?"

"I'm not ready for another baby yet. How am I going to cope with Colton, Scarlett and a newborn?"

"You'll have me."

"I'll have you on weekdays and saturdays after 6pm and then all day on sundays. That's not enough for three children."

"I can do less hours.." he suggested.

"It's not just that."

"Then what else is the problem?"

"Scarlett." Aria hated to use Scarlett as a reason but she was.

Jason was disheartened when his wife used their daughter as a reason for not wanting another child.

"What do you mean?" he asked bluntly.

"She's still so so attached to us. I'm scared she'll hate this baby.." Aria sniffed. "..for all the attention she's missing out on because we're giving this one" she placed her hand on her taut stomach "..the attention."

"We don't know that for sure." Jason reassured her. "Maybe she'll see this baby as having a new doll. She might enjoy helping you change its diapers and
giving him or her a bottle."

"I hope so." Aria wiped her eyes. "We need to go." she told Jason as she stood up.

Getting up, he followed Aria out of their room while putting on a tshirt. As they walked down the stairs together he wrapped an arm around her shoulders and kissed her head. "I know you're finding it hard to cope with but I'm sure you'll feel better about the situation in a couple of days."

They reached the bottom of the stairs and Aria forced a little smile out. "Yeah, probably." she whispered before leaning up to kiss Jason.