Disclaimer: See chapter 1

Chapter Two – Telling the Family

Nicky and Alex lay awake that night, thinking. "Nicky…"

"Yeah, Alex"

"Do you really think Mom and Dad want to have another kid?"

"I don't know." Nicky asked, rolling over in his bed. "But why would they?"

"I'm not sure." Alex said. "Do you think we did something wrong? Maybe they want another kid more perfect than us."

"I don't think it's that." Nicky said. Then he thought. They had been pretty mischievous lately. Just the week before that they had put a spider in Michelle's hair. Becky had been pretty mad at them for that. They still weren't allowed to go use the computer for that prank.

"Do you really think we're bad enough for that?" Nicky asked, him and his brother sitting up.

"I don't think we are…"

"We must be if they want another kid."

After thinking about it for a while, Alex asked, 'Maybe we can ask Stephanie. She's helped us before. Why not now?"

"Yeah! Stephanie can explain to us!" Nicky said excitedly. The boys heard one of their parents walking down the hall to their room and they pretended to sleep.

DJ ran in her front door excitedly. Steve followed behind laughing. "Deej, calm down" he laughed.

DJ burst through the door. Steph was sitting on the couch watching TV. DJ ran up to her while Steve walked through the door.

"Stephanie, I'm engaged!" she yelled to her sister.

"DJ!" Stephanie yelled excitedly. The sisters embraced.

"What's going on?" Michelle asked with Joey following her.

"I'm engaged!"

Joey and Michelle looked at each other in astonishment. Danny must have heard his eldest daughter because he ran down the front stairs.

Michelle hugged Steve. "I always knew you two would end up married," Michelle whispered in his ear, "from the second you first ate our apples". Steve gave her a playful punch on the shoulder and ran to his new fiancée.

"I have to tell Aunt Becky!" DJ yelled, and ran out the back door to her Aunt and Uncle's house.

Meanwhile, Jesse and Rebecca where sitting in the kitchen, thinking about the possible new baby. "How are we going to tell the boys?" Becky asked her husband.

"Shouldn't we just tell them?"

"But how will they handle it?"

"I never though of that…"

They sat there thinking about it for a while before Jesse spoke up.

"You know, if we're going to try this then shouldn't we…" the door swung open, "…DJ!"

"I'm so happy! Steve proposed!"

"Deej…" her aunt replied softly. Her uncle jumped up and kissed his niece, his wife following with an embrace.

"What's going on?" Nicky asked, his brother clomping down the stairs behind them

"Boys…I'm engaged!"

"Wow!" Alex yelled. The boys ran up to their cousin.

"Off to bed, you two." Their mother chuckled.

"But, Mom!" Nicky protested, "It's Friday!"

"And it's already ten, you guys should be asleep by now." Jesse said. "Now, go."

Nicky and Alex mumbled under their breath as they went up the stairs to their room.

"Well, I'd better go, " DJ said, "Dad probably wants to celebrate this somehow. Maybe you guys can come too."

"Well…" Jesse said. "We would, but…"

"The boys shouldn't be up this late!" Becky said.

"Then stop by tomorrow!" DJ said cheerfully running back to her house.

After the door slammed, Jesse said, "Now, where were we?" and scooped up his wife.

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