Serena, now thirteen, had started to act more grown up and do countless chores about the house. Jeffrey and John Curtis teased her of course, but she just rolled her eyes and pranced off. Ginny often followed her around like a lovesick puppy, and Emma had often caught the little girl cuddling with Serena at night instead of staying in her own bed.
It soon was September, and the kids were back at school. Being twenty five, Emma felt a little lost. She was happy with her life, but she wanted to start working again. So, she was hired at the clothes store in Rockfish.
Saturday night, and John Boy, Jason and Toni, Mary Ellen and Jonsey, Ben and Emma and Erin and Paul headed to the Dew Drop Inn. As she told everyone about her new job, John Boy kept looking over at Marcia Woolery who was sitting with a man.
"Is she dating him?" He asked, blushing a little.
"They're engaged, John Boy." Mary Ellen smirked. "I don't think Michael would like it if he knew you were an old beau of Marcia's."
Emma sat beside Toni, who was sipping at her drink while watching Jason play. "How are you two gettin' on?"
"Oh, good. I was a little mad at him for not keeping at touch but he's just the greatest so I can't keep mad at him for long." Toni gushed, her eyes lighting up. "What was it like being married young? I'm twenty seven so I wouldn't be considered young anymore."
Emma smiled. "Well, I love being married. And I never really considered being married at twenty young, but I guess it is." Ben gave her a wink before turning to talk to Paul.
After she helped a customer, Emma sighed in relief and sank against the counter. It was only eleven in the morning! The building up of nausea sent her running to the bathroom. She tried to keep herself thinking positively, telling herself that it was just something she had ate.
But as the day went on, she asked herself if that was really the case. Erin dropped her off at the doctor's after work, and Emma walked shakily into the clinic.
When she came back out she had gained the news that she was having another baby.
