A/N: Now for the long-awaited chapter. Your "votes" have been cast and the "polls" are shut down. To find out what Joey Jeremiah and Caitlin Ryan had and named the baby you'll have to read on and find out.
Mrs. Kwan handed out the final exams and everyone went to work on it. Everyone except for Craig. Craig chewed on his pencil as the words blurred in front of him. Everyday was one day closer to Sammy's due date, not to mention Caitlin, so the Jeremiah household was hectic.
Craig looked over at Sammy who was working away at her test, not worried. Craig wasn't really worried, just anxious. Anxious to hold his baby girl in his arms, Julia Destiny Thomas-Manning. He wished that his mother was there so she could see her first grandchild. Craig had spent some nights staying away and thinking of sitting a toddler on his lap while telling her about her Grandma Manning-Jeremiah.
Sammy felt eyes on her and she looked up and over at Craig and she smiled at him. He smiled back and turned back to his test.
The day had been boring but there was a little excitement halfway through the English final. Sammy's water broke, she thought she had felt contractions in her last couple of classes but she really wasn't sure, when she was pregnant with Gabriel she had a couple of false alarms. She wasn't due for another couple of weeks, a week after they got out of school. Sammy raised her hand. "Mrs. Kwan," she said.
Mrs. Kwan turned. "Yes?" All eyes turned to look at Sammy.
"My water just broke." (A/N: A girl actually did go into labor a month early in class—or so people said)
Craig dropped his pencil and Jimmy, Marco, and Spinner turned and looked at him. Mrs. Kwan rushed over to Sammy and she and Craig helped Sammy out of the room and to the office where they had Mr. Raditch call Joey and Caitlin.
"Are you ok?" Craig asked, grabbing her hand as they waited for Joey to arrive.
"Yeah," she said. "You?"
"I'm nervous," he said.
"What do you have to be nervous about?" she asked. "I'm the one having the baby."
He smiled and leaned forward and kissed her on the head as Sammy got another contraction. She groaned. Finally, Joey arrived. He ran in and helped Sammy to the car. Craig climbed into the backseat with her.
Caitlin sat in the front. She and Joey had left Gabriel with Joey's mother, who had agreed to take care of him.
Joey floored the gas and they headed to the hospital.
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Sammy was in the maternity ward with Craig beside her, telling her to breath like they had learned in their parenting classes.
"Oh, my God! Sammy!" a voice exclaimed. Sammy looked up to see Regina being wheeled in a wheelchair.
"Regina?" Sammy asked.
"They're a couple of months early," she said, with her hand on her stomach. She looked frightened, until Hayden ran over in a shirt with a local fast food restaurant logo sewn over the pocket.
"This is really weird," Hayden said, looking at Regina and then at Sammy and Craig. "I just got off my cell with Juan and Candice is in labor, too."
Craig's jaw dropped. "Really?" he asked. Since they had started the classes, the three couples had become best friends and they had joked about all of the girls going into labor at the same time but now they wished that they hadn't.
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In the waiting room, Joey saw Jane and ran over to her. "Jane!" he exclaimed. She turned.
"Yeah?" Jane asked.
He hurriedly told her that Sammy was in labor, she ran back to the maternity ward and he returned to Caitlin. His mother had brought Gabriel and Angela, and she was helping Angela pick out a teddy bear to give her niece.
School had let out and there had been no baby (or babies—including Regina and Candice, who had requested that they all be in the same room together when the babies were born). Spinner, Paige, Hazel, Jimmy, Terri, Kendra, Marco, and Ellie ran into the waiting room and Spinner took Gabriel from Mrs. Jeremiah when she came back and sat down with him on his lap.
Caitlin grabbed her stomach as the baby kicked and her water broke. "Joey," she said. "I think it's time."
Joey's eyes widened and he got a doctor back there and they took her to the maternity ward as well.
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Sammy's jaw dropped as she saw Caitlin being wheeled in there. "Caitlin?!" she exclaimed.
Caitlin smiled at her and they took her to an extra bed. "You all know each other?" a doctor asked.
All of them nodded and the doctor looked at the nurses, with raised eyebrows. It was amazing. All of the babies were going to be sharing a birthday.
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"I can't believe it," Ashley said as she and Manny sat on her bed, with half of the liquor cabinet around them. Manny knew she shouldn't be drinking but she didn't care, "Sammy went into labor during the final."
"I bet she and Craig get extra credit in Health class," Manny said. Ashley giggled.
"Probably, but the get a zero in safe sex."
Manny giggled and took another drink of her wine cooler. She looked at Ashley. At her short hair, flipped out and her eyes and her skin was so smooth. "You're really beautiful," Manny said.
Ashley blushed and looked at Manny. "You are, too," she replied. Manny bit her lip and before either girl knew it they were making out on Ashley's bed.
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"Alright, Sammy, it's time to push," the doctor said.
Sammy nodded and Craig helped her up and she pushed when she was told to and she stopped when she heard the sound of her daughter's crying.
"Oh my God," she said. She looked up at Craig and he smiled as they laid the naked baby on Sammy's stomach.
"It's a girl!" the doctor exclaimed.
A nurse handed Craig the scissors and he cut the umbilical cord and they took his daughter to get her cleaned up.
Two minutes later, a doctor announced. "It's a boy!" And Candice and Juan beamed at their son.
Next was Regina and Hayden's first baby a girl, then their daughter's twin sister. Last, but not least was Joey and Caitlin's son.
Sammy looked up at Craig and smiled. "I love you," she replied.
"I love you, too," he said, leaning down and kissing her on the lips.
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Manny and Ashley pulled apart and looked at each other. "I love you, Ashley," Manny whispered.
Ashley looked at her. "You can't," she said.
"Why?"
"I'm going to go live with my dad."
Manny shook her head. "This can't be happening," she said.
"I'm sorry."
Manny shook her head and jumped up off of the bed and she walked out of the room and drunkenly down the stairs, squeezing the railing as tight as she could. Her whole world was falling apart. No Ashley, no Sean, no Craig, no one! She was pregnant and alone!
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"They're so beautiful!" Sammy cooed over Regina's twins. Regina had one and Hayden had the other. Juan was showing off his baby boy with Joey, and Craig was kissing his daughter.
"Yeah," Candice agreed. "What have you decided to name them?"
"Well," Regina looked down at her daughter. "This is Kensi Lynn and Hayden has Amanda Denise."
"Juan and I decided on Jonah—after his dad—Michael—after mine," Candice said.
"Jonah Michael," Caitlin said. "I like that. Joey and I asked people what they liked on my website and we decided on the number one name, Liam."
"Liam what?" Sammy asked. She had voted for all of the names and was curious.
"We decided to go with all the second place names so the baby's full name is Liam Connor Nicholas—we changed it from Nick—Trevor Ryan-Jeremiah."
"Wow, does the baby have a last name?" Sammy teased.
Caitlin smiled and finally laughed. "No," she said.
The girls giggled and finally some nurses came in and took the babies to the nursery.
