The girls made their way to where the guy's were standing. Lesley took the baby from Lacey and volunteered to return him safely to his parents. The Bride and Groom had made their exit and the girls were ready to go. Lesley caught the bouquet, the others avoided it at all cost. Ray decided it best to hand deliver the garter to Robert putting him on the spot.

"The girls are coming over to look at the nursery" Lacey told Ronnie and the guy's cringed at the idea.

"You can go to Sully's if you want" Allison suggested

"Naaa, I'll go with you or else you'll never leave" Owen told her and the rest of the guy's gave him the thanks a lot look knowing they would have to do the same to keep the peace

"Baby Fever" the unanimously agreed.

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They all made it to Ronnie's but Eddie and Janet. Everyone else had pretty much went straight there but Eddie and Janet spent a little more time dancing while the rest of the guests cleared out before they headed over.

"You ready to go home" she asked

"I thought we were going to look at the nursery" Eddie asked

"I figured you had other things on your mind"

"You know I'm okay with you wanting to see it" Eddie told her sweetly

"Are you sure, I don't want to freak you out"

"Your not going to freak me out, you're a woman and I know how the whole baby fever thing works" Eddie replied

"Baby Fever, what were you morons talking about" Janet chuckled

"You know one of you gets pregnant and all the other ones ooooooo and ahhhh over ever little thing, kind of like with the whole wedding thing where you start planning it when your like 12" Eddie explained

"So that's what Baby Fever is" Janet asked sarcasticly

"Mostly but the one thing none of you are willing to admit is that you secretly hope you'll just wake up pregnant one day, because women can't help but want one even if they don't" Eddie smiled at her

"You think you've got women all figured out" Janet asked him amused

"That whole motherly instinct thing, you know what I'm talking about that's why women do what they do………it starts when a baby boy is born, what's the first thing a woman does breast feed, then when their little boys she follows them around making sure none of the other kids pick on them, when you get to be a young man you get the best of both worlds your mom does you cleaning and cooking and the girls take care of other things but just to make sure we can't survive on our own when we're grown men you women start doing it all" Eddie was so certain

"So what do you call your need to hold Chandler Jr., a play date" Janet asked

"ahhh, I was just trying to save him from the women" Eddie blushed

"What about little girls" Janet asked thinking she would stump him

"That's easy….you all start training them to do exactly what I was talking about to some poor little unknowing boy" Eddie smirked

"Your right" Janet replied

"About the baby fever or the mother's instinct" Eddie asked as Janet collected her purse

"You got the instinct down pat, the Baby fever you're a little off on" Janet told him picking her wrap up

"Do the honor of correcting me" Eddie asked putting his Jacket around her shoulders

"Babies are what make life worth living, little gifts from god that can make you happy to be alive and horrified to take your next breath, and your right women love to see and talk about them, dream even but waking up one morning to find out your pregnant isn't always what a woman wants, it's a delicate balance of emotions….kind of like the whole perfect wedding……..if you can't share it with a man that loves you…" Janet shrugged her shoulders

"I love you" Eddie said taking her hand

"I love you to" she replied

"It's okay if you changed your mind, if your not comfortable with not using protection, I'll be fine I just want you to be okay with whatever we decide" Eddie kissed her hand

"I haven't changed my mind, I didn't make the decision out of lust...it was out of love...mostly your love for me...your right it's just the whole Baby Fever thing…..Janet smiled……….makes women sappy"

"Jay I don't mind going to see the nursery but if you want somewhere and talk, I'm okay with that to" Eddie raised her chin and kissed her

"We'll talk soon I promise I just want to spend a little quiet time together before we start having to think" Janet added with a permiscuous grin

"Come on then lets go the other's are already there getting their fix, the sooner you get yours the sooner I can take you home and get mine" Janet grabbed and pulled Eddie by his tie in for a kiss then they headed for the truck

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"Up the stairs, first door on the left" Ronnie directed when Eddie and Janet arrived. Janet made her way up stairs and Eddie took a seat with the other guy's in the living room, plopped in front of the t.v.

"Hey, I didn't think Eddie was going to give you up long enough to come" Aubrey said to her and the girls continued to gossip.

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"I guess Lesley was right when she said you would tie the knot before I did" Nick told his brother looking around at the home he had already managed to create

"So, when are all of you going to take the plunge" Ronnie asked kicked back in his recliner with the remote but no one said a word

"I don't know what you're waiting for, it's actually pretty nice being married sure it's a lot of work but it's worth it" Ronnie added flipping through the channels

"We haven't been together that long" Ickey replied

"But you love her" Nick said

"Yeah, well I don't see you asking Lolly in there" Ickey replied

"When Eddie Latekka proposes I will" Nick deverted and they all found humor in it

"So, I'm safe for what 2 or 3 years" Nick joked

"Actually I plan on doing it in 4 to 6….." Eddie started to say

"If you wait that long your going to be alone again" Owen joked

"I was going to say 4 to 6 weeks" Eddie finished

"Dude, you can't leave me hanging, Darce will be crushed" Ickey pleaded

"Phil's still single" Ronnie replied

"Actually, he's not…he asked Pizza Girl to marry him a couple of weeks ago and she told him she would marry him the day he left the house, knowing Phil he had it all waiting on them when they got back" Owen filled them in on how the proposal really happened

"How is it that I didn't know about it, I live with the guy" Eddie asked

"He didn't want to rub it in, you had enough to deal with" Owen chuckled

"I can't be the only one" Ickey contended

"Then marry the girl" Owen told Ickey

"It does sound kind of nice" Ickey agreed

"But we have to all do it at the same time other wise they'll accuse us of only doing it because the other one did" Ickey told them and they all sat back thinking for several minutes.

"Are we really going to do this" Nick didn't know what to say

"I am, you two idiots are on your own, but don't come whining to me when your all alone" Eddie showed no sympathy he learned his lesson the hard way and if they couldn't learn from example they were on their own

"You were together for months, broke up for some top secret undisclosed reason, get in a huge fight at Sully's no less, spend one night together and your ready to ask her to marry you……….Did I not get the memo because I don't understand how you had time to make a decision like that" Nick was backpedaling, if Eddie didn't get married neither did he have to.

"To start with their wasn't a memo, it's none of your business so stop asking me why me broke up, it's not something either one of us is proud of and you wouldn't understand anyway so let it go because the next person that asks will be the last and as far as making the decision to ask her that was easy" Eddie set Nick straight

"When did you know, what made you stop and say okay I should chain myself to some huge ginormous sphere of monogomy and then push it off of a cliff" Ickey asked and the guy's laughed

"I've known for a couple of years that I wanted to be with Janet, I ignored it most of that time but I knew, then the last couple of months I don't know it's been hell… one minute I never wanted to see her again and the next I couldn't wait to see her, then last night I knew I had to have her back in my life and today when I saw her holding the baby I knew I had to make sure that's how it was, I want Janet like that..like she was today" Eddie was enjoying Ickey joke as much as the others but he was serious about what he said

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The girls piled back into the room and sat mostly on their counter parts laps. Still in ties and dresses it was quite a site to be seen when The Commander and Lesley arrived followed by Lacey's parents. Even Ickey looked nice, Darcey picked out his clothes along with most everything else in his life right down to the paint on his walls

"What is this the Prom" The Commander asked

"Maybe, are you two here to chaperon, make sure none of us are having sex in the bathroom" Ronnie asked sarcastically and everyone busted out laughing

"It's nice to see you with some pants on for a change, son" Jerry smirked

"Yeah well hang around a little while I'll be taking them off and walking around in my skibbies" Ronnie tried to keep a serious tone but ended up laughing.

"You kick me out of your house again and you'll be limping around in your skibbies" Robert contended

"Ladies, now that's what I was talking about...I'm sure your lesser half will show you how much they appreciated the view today" Ronnie added noticing their dresses, which were quite fitted and low cut

"Whatch it, you need not forget who your talking to" Lesley ordered

Lacey, Lesley and her mom went back to look at the nursery and when they came out Margaret suggested Ronnie take advantage of the help he had and put the nursery furniture together. Then her parent's left. Ronnie told them they were welcome to stay but they had plans for all four to eat dinner together.

Eddie was the first to offer his help with the crib and soon the guy's were trying their best to read the instructions finally tossing them and doing it their own way.

There were the cracks about hoping the baby looked like Lacey instead of Ronnie, the jokes about the actual birth along with several other common ones. But mostly the conversation was serious in between bouts of name calling over having to unscrew the wrong part again.

"When are you going to have another one Big O" Nick asked

"I'm not" he replied

"Sounds like you're dead set on that" Eddie commented

"I would love to have a whole house full but fate say's we can't so I'll keep spoiling Conner and Kaitlyn like there's no tomorrow" Owen replied and Ickey felt even lower than he did before

"I'm sorry, I didn't know" Nick apologized

"Naaa, don't worry about it, I've got two no need to be greedy" "What about you, do you think you'll want to do the whole thing from the beginning" Owen added

"Yeah, I would but first I want to spend some time with Sam, I missed so much and since Aubrey's a few years younger I'm hoping she'll be okay with that" Nick replied

"I never thought I would want kids, they take so much and I wouldn't have time for just hanging out but it don't sound so bad now, it would be kind of cool for our kids to play together like we did" Ickey said "But it don't matter, it'll never happen" Ickey seemed sad

"Sure it will, if you want it to" Ronnie said to him

"Nahh, Darce can't have kids...she can get pregnant but the chances of being able to carry are pretty low" Ickey announced to his friends. The most serious discussion in his life was about that with Darcey shortly after they started having sex and she wanted him to clearly understand how important being safe was to her.

"You can still have children, Ickey...trust me they don't have to have your blood running through your veins to love them like your own" Eddie enlightened him

"Well somebody better hurry up or else mine is going to be stuck just like me, playing by their self" Ronnie huffed holding up the front of the crib while Eddie screwed it together.

"You never know, there might be a Lacey for your kid toddling around Knight's Ridge, somewhere" Eddie answered

"After everything that's happened, are you going to want kids, Eddie" Nick asked

"Now more than ever, but we owe it to our selves to spend some time taking care of each other before we try to take care of a baby" Eddie answered

"Don't wait to long, your not getting any younger" Owen told him

"I know I've thought about that" Eddie replied

"When, you just made up last night" Ronnie reminded him as Eddie got up from the floor

"The first time I kissed Janet" Eddie answered and the guy's looked at him funny "I don't plan on waiting very long but first I have to make it down the aisle, so you two better hurry up and get your act together or I'm going to do it with out you" Eddie warned Ickey and Nick

"Have you gotten a ring yet" Ickey asked Eddie "I've got my great great grandmothers, I'm going to have a new setting made for it, I'm driving up to Boston Tuesday, your more than welcome to come along. There's a really nice jewelry store up there where I got Janet's bracelet" he added

"If we're all gone to buy rings, who's going to run the shop" Nick asked

"I think Best Friend Windows can use a break" Eddie told him and by then they had finished putting the crib together.

"How exactly do you plan on all of us taking off to Boston with out the Lolly's finding out" Ickey asked

"I'm don't, I'm not going to lie to Janet" Eddie made no bones about it

"We can't tell them why we're going, so how are we going to do it with seriously ticking them off" Ickey asked

"There's only one way that's going to happen" Eddie smirked "And it's going to cost us" he added

"ROAD TRIP" Owen yelled