[This picks up the scenes right from where the last chapter left off.  And thank you sosososo much to the people who gave me reviews! They make my day! ENJOY!]

Maureen had been sitting, with her mouth open for about ten minutes and Joanne was starting to get worried.  Maureen, her Maureen, speechless?! The baby question must have really scared her.

"Honeybear…" Nothing. "Darling?" Still nothing. "Jesus Christ, Maureen! Say something! EVEN A 'NO' WOULD BE BETTER THAN THIS!" She composed herself and took a few slow deep breaths.  She saw Maureen move for the first time.

"Was that a joke?" Joanne was thrilled, for the first time in a while, that Maureen had something to say.

"No" Damnitt! She thought, damnitt, damnitt, damnitt! Why the hell would she feed into this idiotic mistake…oh well, no point in going back now.

"Wh-wh-wh-why? We can't have a baby!" Maureen spit out the word as if it were an illegal drug, or a death-defying stunt. "Joanne, we can hardly deal with each other, never mind someone else!" She got up from the couch and started pacing, practically yelling in Joanne's face.  "What if we did, huh? What if we had a baby, and then we split up? Why would you put a child through that shit, huh? Answer me!" Joanne was being backed into the corner of the couch.  Usually it was her giving the lecture, and she wasn't quite sure what to do when she was on the other side.  Maybe Maureen had really gone crazy.

"Wh, I-" Maureen cut her off.

"Did I say you could speak?!" She shrieked.  Okay, Joanne thought, at least she was still Maureen.  "MY GOD! I CAN'T DEAL WITH YOU RIGHT NOW!!" She ran into Mark's room and slammed the door, making Joanne jump.

In the kitchen, Collins was still buttering Maureen's toast.  Max was beginning to think something was the matter when Collins had used up half of the stick of butter on one piece.

"Col, is something wrong?" He asked gently.

"No."  Collins spat out flatly.

"Are you sure you don't want to talk about it or something?"

"YES! I am fine, just leave me alone!" Collins said coldly, as he started taking his fury out on the piece of bread.

"You're really okay, honey?" My god, Collins felt as though Max knew it all and was just saying these things to torture him.

"Shut the hell up!" Collins left the room.  Max heard him slam the loft door.

"I don't understand why he can't talk to me."  He looked down at the massacred piece of bread and sighed.

Mimi and Roger were still staring at Benny and Allison, but they didn't seem to notice them.

" Mother, we are ready to leave, I-" Benny began, but his mother cut him off.

" These horrible people have been quite disrespectful to me!" Benny turned to see who she was talking about and saw Roger and Mimi.  At first he was in shock, but a sly grin spread across his face after no more than a second.

"Well well well, what have we here? The sex monsters finally fucked up, huh?" He crossed his arms obnoxiously.

"Shut up, Benny." Mimi hated that man so much, and as if being pregnant wasn't enough, he had to be here.  She was trying to figure out what she had done to deserve this.  "Ya know, it is one thing for you to call me a whore, 'cause I can kick you, but your mother…speaking of which, I'm surprised you can have kids the way I kicked you last year." Now she was smirking.

" So am I." He said flatly.  And let's just say that Allison was less than pleased with this remark.

"Benny, just go, you dickhead." Roger didn't want to deal with Benny, nor Mimi's screaming fit that he knew was coming, as soon as he left.

" If I were not in front of my pregnant wife," He used the word pregnant as if he was proud to be having a child, but all five adults in the conversation knew it had been just as much of a mistake as it had been for Mimi and Roger.  He continued. "…and my mother, you would be on the floor, begging me to stop.

"Yeah, sure I would."

"Miss Marquez?" Mimi had never been so happy to be called out of a room in her entire life.  She wanted to smile, but she knew now would not be the best time.

"Yes." She told the nurse. "Thank god" She whispered under her breath as she got up from the pieces of crap some people called chairs. "Let's go Roger." She was practically dragging him away from Benny.

" Yeah, yeah, yeah…" Roger was in the mood for a fight, but Mimi was not, so he let her lead him in the opposite direction.

As Roger and Mimi began walking away, and Benny's mother had left the building with Allison, Benny said one more thing.

"Hey Rog?"

"Yeah?" He asked as he turned around, but right as he did, Benny's fist smashed into his cheek, and Benny then retreated out of the office before Roger could retaliate. "Aw-fuck!" He yelled in pain, holding his cheek.

"God, Roger, are you all right?" She hurried over to him, and gently touched his arm and winced in sympathy.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Roger may have lost his dignity, but he would die before he went soft in public.  "Lets go." He walked toward the office, but noticed Mimi looking anything but convinced. "Happy occasion, remember?" Mimi pretended to smile, and Roger wrapped his arm around her waist as he escorted her into the office, knowing both of their lives were about to change completely in the next ten minutes.

Maureen had been lying on the floor, while Mark lay on his bed.  They both sat in silence, only acknowledging each other's presence subconsciously. 

"Can you believe she wants a baby? I mean, me and Joanne have a-a BABY?!"

"Can we please change the subject?" Maureen got up and sat on the bed next to Mark.

"Why does all this talk about babies and pregnancy make you so…so…blah?" Mark did not want to answer that question, especially to Maureen, but there was no way to get out of it now, so he figured that telling someone would be better than telling no one.

"You really want to know?" She nodded. "And you have to swear on you leather pants that you will NOT tell another soul." He was now looking into her eyes, sitting up.

"Okay, okay." Pause. Nothing. "Well…?!"

"All right, fine." He closed his eyes and spoke so softly that Maureen had to lean close to his cheek to comprehend. "When Roger and April broke up that one time…we had sex…a lot, and…I got her pregnant."

[DUMDUMDUM!!!! What is Mark trying to say? What happened to his and April's baby? When Collin's tells Max about Angel, will their relationship be able to survive it?  What will Roger and Mimi do about Benny, and this baby? You'll have to wait and see, 'cause this week is tech week for my show, so if I get to update it will be a miracle, but as soon as I can, I will update. But review anyways!

P.S. I know the story lines are a little separate right now, but they will all be brought together, and more story lines will cross…hope you liked it:)]