"Well, now that we've all settled down and had some tea and are all seated quite comfortably," Jem said, standing in the middle of the room after Spike and Vicious had stopped their bickering, "I have some news."
"What? Are you ok? Is something wrong?" Vicious asked as he always did when she had news, but she couldn't blame him, her news usually was bad, but this time, oh this time, it was the best news she had received in such a long time.
"No, nothing's wrong. It's not like that at all, it's good news." Jem said.
"Well, off with it then," Jet told her.
Taking a deep long and loud breath, she told them, "Well, Jet, I know that this might upset you a little bit, but It's made me very happy, and I can only hope that you can understand, and I know that Vicious will, or should anyway, be happy as well."
"Off with it sis."
She takes a second, smiling to herself, and looking over at Faye who offers a smiling face in return, she's cheering her on silently, what a good friend. "Well, Vicious, Jet," she pauses for a deep breath, "I'm pregnant."
Vicious and Jet both stare at her, taking more time than necessary to react. "Well, let's celebrate, shall we?" Spike says, being the first to react, "I say we pull out the champagne and have a ball!"
Jem just stands there, watching, her eyes shifting back and forth from Vicious to Jet. "Is...is there something wrong?"
"SOMETHING WRONG? IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG? YOU BET THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG, MY LITTLE SISTER IS PREGNANT, MY LITTLE UNMARRIED SISTER, IS PREGNANT." Jet burst out.
"HELLO! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO YELL AT HER! SHE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO CAUSED THIS YOU KNOW! IT'S MORE MY FAULT THAN IT EVER WILL BE HERS," Vicious screamed in Jem's defense.
"OH, SO NOW SOMEONE HAS TO BE AT FAULT? NEITHER ONE OF YOU CAN JUST BE HAPPY FOR ME CAN YOU?" Jem screamed outranged that neither one showed the slightest bit of happiness. She turned and stormed out of the room and ran the bathroom, slamming the door behind her.
"Well, I guess you two blew it this time," Spike said looking to be one of the only understanding people there, just him and Faye. Faye got up at that comment and was half way across the room when Jet asked her, "Where are you going?"
"After her obviously, she just came out and told the two of you something that would be hard for any woman to come straight out and say the way that she did and you just blew up in her face, the two of you ought to be ashamed of yourselves and the way you just acted," she told the two of them.
"No, let me," Vicious said as he walked past her on his way to the bathroom, when he got there he twisted the knob, half expecting to have to beat the door down to be able to get in, but surprisingly, it was unlocked. He went in and found Jem sitting on the toilet crying, not really making any noise just having tears flow down her face. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you in any way, it's not a fault, it's a great opportunity for us to live our lives and be together and settle down and raise a family. I have the best woman in the world about to have my child, if she will still have me that is, what more could a guy ask for?"
At that Jem had to smile, she couldn't help it, he made her smile, he always did, with those blue eyes and that smile of his, those dimples always made her heart give a little flutter, every time he followed her somewhere, when it was just the two of them, she could swear he saved that smile of his just for her. If any girl in the world could ever see that smile they'd be his forever, sometimes she wondered if that smile had magic in it, if somehow it possessed her into staying. When they fought, he always did something out of the blue, something that made her smile, whenever she was down or crying, he always made her smile. Everything about him made her crazy, she really was in love with him, she was more than happy to be having his child, there's no way in the world she would give up this baby, even though she may threaten him with it from time to time, just to get on his last nerve in one of there fights, he never won. But it was ok, because winning didn't count to them, they were in love, and that's all that mattered.
"Well, I know a girl couldn't ask for anything better than you, if they did they'd be asking for a miracle and a half," she told him.
"Oh, so now you wanna call me a miracle huh?" he smiled at her, it was a smile that only she ever got to see, but then again, why would he share it with anyone else? He loved her, and only her. He was so surprised when she said she was pregnant, happy surprised though, he spent those few moments on the couch thinking, how no matter what the baby was, boy or girl, it would be the most loved baby in all the world, because they, Jem and Vicious, would be together forever.
"Maybe I am, but who's say that it's not the truth?" Jem asked, playfully punching him in the ribs, put not to hard, she'd die if she ever hurt him.
"Well, what do ya say we get outta here and go talk down that older brother of yours before he does something that we all know he'll regret later." Vicious told her.
"I'd really rather not go back out there, but it is for the best." Jem said as she reached up for his hands to pull her up from her spot. As soon as she got up she wrapped her arms around him grateful to have such a fine catch of a man. What would she ever do without him? The two made their way back into the living room where Spike sat still in the chair that he had been in when Jem gave her news, Faye stood next to Spikes chair with her arm around the top of the chair and his arm around her waist. They made quiet the cute couple, they were the all around best people to be voted together. Jet stood pacing the room but as soon as they walked in, immediately stopped and walked over to Jem and put his arms around her and gave her the biggest hug he had ever given anyone in a very very long time.
"I'm sorry, I really should have tried to be more understanding. You know I love you though and I always will, it's just that you know how I feel about these things. I'm sorry about the way I reacted, I really am," Jet told her.
The moment when she told him he had been in such a state of shock, he hadn't known how to react, he knew he should feel happy for her but he was over come by the fact that she had been lying to him for some time now, every time he saw her, if he had the chance to get her alone he would ask her, about her personal life and if Vicious had tried to make her get intimate with him. And since he hadn't gotten the chance to get her alone this time but every other time she had told him no. Why had she lied to him? Why was he arguing with himself, he knew why she lied, because she knew he would never approve of it, and she really wasn't ready to have that conversation with him, he knew that. But it still upset him, a lot.
"It's really ok, I figured you would react like that, it's why I really wasn't ready to tell you, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you the truth, but I really wasn't ready to fight over that with you," Jem told her older brother with one of the weirdest looks he had seen in quite some time. She was afraid of him, that much he could tell.
