Three weeks later Kriss was a week late. She was half pleased and half worried, but she would have to tell Arnold and Dave about this. Suddenly she realised she hadn't actually done a pregnancy test. She'd have to be 100 sure. Maybe all the worrying had made her late. She grabbed five tests from the medi-bay and took them to her quarters. Test one was positive as was test two, three, for and five
"Okay" she admitted to herself after getting the fifth positive result "I'm pregnant"
Kriss couldn't explain what, but something told her that this baby was a little boy, Arnold's little boy.
"Hello my precious" she stroked her tummy as she spoke to it "you're my Theo and you're going to cause a lot of trouble.
Kriss was sure that her baby was conceived on that night because she hadn't had unprotected sex since. She decided to tell Dave first, she thought she'd just come out with it.
"Dave, I'm pregnant" she announced
Dave was so shocked that he dropped his chicken Vindaloo; this made such a noise that it woke Alicia-May up.
"You're pregnant?" Dave asked, "You can't be!"
"Well" Kriss joked "I am a woman, we did have unprotected sex, it can happen£
Dave wasn't laughing, "I don't want this baby" he told her
"What are you saying?" she started crying, "What do you want me to do?"
"It'll just take me a while to come round to the idea"
"I thought you were telling me to have an abortion," Kriss sobbed
"Oh no!" Dave apologised "it'll just take a while, that's all"
"Why don't you want this baby?" Kriss asked
"We've got so many and they're all so young" he told her "I'm just worried we'll miss special moments with the others, I wanted to wait a while"
"Well it's happened now" Kriss snapped "prepare yourself to fatherhood, again"
Kriss knew that the next person to tell was Arnold; she didn't really have a choice. She wanted the baby to be Dave's but she was almost sure he was Arnold's.
"Arnold" she called "can we go somewhere quiet, I need to tell you something"
They went to Arnold's quarters.
"You're pregnant aren't you?" Arnold asked
"Yes" Kriss answered, "I am"
"I knew you were" Arnold smiled "he's mine right?"
"I think so"
"Marvellous"
"I'm not sure though" she confessed
"Why not?" he asked
"After we had sex I went and slept with Dave so he didn't get suspicious, so the baby could be Dave's"
"Oh" Arnold was shocked "okay"
"Please don't tell him" she pleaded
"Of course I wont"
Kriss gave Arnold a hug "thank you" she whispered "that means a lot"