Chapter 16: Should I Be Happy?

Well, Stephen finally woke up and got out of the hospital, and all attention was focused on him for a while, but then things settled down and all was well in the Camden family…for a while.

Back at the Petrowski's house, Peter and Ruthie were putting up a crib for the new baby. They had a doctor's appointment later that afternoon and they were going to find out the gender. Ruthie was really nervous because she hadn't gotten over the miscarriage she had had 2 years earlier. She had Mark since then, but she was still afraid; who wouldn't be? Peter was nervous also, but he tried his best to comfort Ruthie.

Simon and Mark were too young to fully comprehend what was going on, but Simon got the basic idea.

Ruthie was 4 months pregnant and she was abnormally large for it.

That afternoon, Ruthie and Peter went to the doctor and left Simon and Mark with Eric and Annie. "Mr. and Mrs. Petrowski," a nurse called out to the waiting room. Ruthie and Peter stood up and followed the young nurse. The doctor, Dr. Wilson, came in minutes later with the ultra-sound machine. Peter held Ruthie's hand while Dr. Wilson rubbed that gooey stuff over Ruthie's stomach. He rolled the little thing connected to the ultra-sound machine over Ruthie's stomach and looked at the screen with a blank face. He turned towards Ruthie and Peter and said with a slightly-forced smile on his face, "You have six healthy babies." Ruthie and Peter exchanged glances and said in unison, "Six?" Dr. Wilson shook his head. Ruthie and Peter were shocked yet thrilled, and they hugged each other tightly. Dr. Wilson looked over at the machine again and said, "The bad news is, the human body is only meant to carry one baby, and you have six." Ruthie became wide-eyed and said, forcing tears back, "Bu…But you said they were healthy." Dr. Wilson nodded apologetically. "They are, a lot of couples have had sextuplets, and a lot of them are just fine. It's just that you will need to take some more precautions. "So they'll probably be just fine," Peter questioned. Dr. Wilson shook his head, "You don't need to worry too much." Ruthie figured she might as well go ahead and ask what the genders of the babies were. "Well, I can't tell for all of them, but you have two girls and one boy that I can see." Dr. Wilson answered. Ruthie and Peter hugged each other but were still partly in shock.

(A/N: Oh, and I know I changed it…I'm very confusing…confused myself already. Ok, so I realize that they would probably already know that they were having more than one baby (or two for that matter) after four months and six babies, (or maybe not, I'm not sure) but oh well, I did it for the story's sake. I wasn't even planning that either…I was just planning on twins, but hey, I liked this idea better, LOL.)

Simon awoke early in the morning to the crying of Mac. He walked over to him, still half-asleep, and tripped over a box, from when they had moved in together. "What's this?" Simon thought to himself. He opened it up and inside it had some things, but the "thing" that caught Simon's eye was a tape. On the tape it said, "College Tape." Simon knew exactly what it was and, with tears forming in his eyes, decided to go and play it.

First, he picked up his crying infant son, and then he put the tape in the VCR. Simon pressed play and saw himself almost fourteen years ago. He smiled at the pictures of Ruthie as a five-year-old. Then, the part of the tape he dreaded making came on. "I killed someone," those three words, his own even, came rushing back into his head as if he had just said them. Mac had stopped crying, but now it was Simon who was full out sobbing. Cecilia had woken up now too, and came out to sit by Simon. Cecilia had never seen that tape. She watched a small part of it, and, suddenly, she knew Simon's pain. He poured his heart out into the tape, and anyone who saw it would know Simon's pain.

He honestly thought he was over it, the accident, and he was, just not fully…exactly anyway. He went to therapy, and even Justin forgave him. They became really good friends. So, who wouldn't think Simon wasn't "over" the accident. He stopped going to therapy sessions, for he was too busy, and he thought he had moved on. And, with disagreement from his parents, not going to his "sessions" anymore worked, or so he thought.

It was Cecilia's turn to try and comfort him now; she had never really got a good chance. "It's not your fault, Simon, it was a long time ago, and it is not your fault." Cecilia said. "I know, but he's dead, because of me." Simon stopped sobbing, and now just a few tears were coming down his eyes. "But his brother and parents are stronger, and maybe even happier because of an accident." Cecilia said. Cecilia looked at her watch and reminded Simon he had to go to work.

"Don't you have to go meet Justin for lunch today?" Cecilia asked, as they met for lunch almost at least once a week. "Not today." Simon replied blankly. "Mom!?!?!? When are we having breakfast?!?!!" Jay screamed from the top of the stairs. Though Cecilia wanted to find out what was going on, she went to go make breakfast.

(A/N: Wow! My chapters are like seriously getting shorter and shorter!!!! Hmmm…maybe I should double-space it, that would make it seem longer…LOL. I will try and make my chapters longer…I promise.)

Oh well, please R&R…next chapter will PROBABLY be a follow-up on Ruthie and Simon's stories, maybe…maybe a story on Lucy and Kevin's family. I don't know yet though…enjoy and uh…yeah.

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A/N: I'm soooo sorry I haven't updated in a LONG while. I started to get bored with the story so I decided to wait a while and now I'm back!!! : D Also, I'm sorry this chapter was kind of short…just wanted to update. Please tell me whom you would like me to focus on for a chapter and maybe I'll do a chapter on them or that family…but I'm not making any promises…LOL :)…otherwise take what you get. Oh, and one last thing, I just noticed this but quite a bit of chapter 11 was taken out of the story…which was kind of an extremely important part, so if when you last read chapter 11, it didn't say much after it said, "The Dinner" then go back and read it soon!!! SORRY ABOUT THAT!!! :(

Next Chapter: Sam goes to a counselor reluctantly and claims he doesn't care that he was raped plus what I said before. I don't know if this is what's really going to happen or not.