Disclaimer: I, Miss Elisabeth C. Dalton do not own Phil Diffy or Keely Teslow, they are the copyright of Disney Channel ohkay, I also do not own Dana Diffy, she is the copyright of Miss Britannia V. Eitwards. I only own Brad Windsor and possibly someone else I won't give away. And I also do not own the store, Motherhood, but it was the only nice/expensive/chain owned Maternity store that I could think of, others I know of are like independently owned here in NY. LOL

-LiZzIe

Chapter 5: Maternity Shopping, Lorelai, and Brad and Dad return

When we walked in, it seemed like all eyes fell on us. Immediately judging me, and Mom. I refused to meet any of there Humph glances, because I knew no good would come from it. As Mom and I walked through the Boston 'Motherhood' store, it wasn't a huge store, but it was big enough to have quite a few people staring at you. I actually saw a few things that I liked, (BIG surprise,) but what I hated was that the clothes weren't sorted by size, they were sorted by months. That made me feel even worse, and of course, all the cute stuff was for three to four months along, which I was, but I would be for long. Although the stuff for seven, eight, and nine months weren't all bad, so I wouldn't look bad during the last few months. A very snooty looking lady in a blue suit was standing with another snooty looking lady in a black suit, and they were standing with a girl who looked about my age, or a little younger. She had dark brown hair, and the bluest eyes I had ever seen, well, wait, not as blue as Rachel and her mom, who's name is coincidently Dana, which is why that's my name, but that's another story. I looked even more closely at Snooty Woman one, Snooty Woman two, and the girl they were with, and she reminded me so much of Lorelai Gilmore. Now I knew I was losing my mind, there was no way I had been in the same 'Motherhood' store with a television show character the way she looked in the past! I had to stop staring at her because I noticed the Snooty Sisters had noticed me staring, and were giving me a now evil Humph stare. So I quickly looked away, and started browsing the three and four months section.

Mom was standing next to me, also browsing. She noticed my constant glances at 'Lorelai,' but didn't say anything. I had given up on what Snooty one and two thought of me, I HAD to find out who this person was. I timed myself perfectly so I reached for the same thing she did at the same time.

"Oh, sorry," she and I said at the same time. Then we both laughed, and I said, "I'm Dana."

"Lorie," she said smiling. "So, how far along are you?"

"Three months," I said quietly

"Four," she said, "Eighteen, and not married, are you?"

"Well, I should be, but not yet, I think he'll ask me, but I'm not totally sure,"

"Well, I have a similar problem, see, the guy I'm in love with is not the father,"

"Oi,"

"Yeah, I know. How old are you?"

"Nineteen, he's twenty two."

"Wow, the father's nineteen, and the guy I'm in love with is twenty, I think."

I semi laughed, and I was dying to know who the snooty women were, so I sort of nodded toward them, and she said, "Oh, that's my mom and my aunt, they insisted on coming here with me, I wish I lived far away from them and their suits,"

This time I did laugh, and then she looked behind me and saw Mom, then she said did a double take and said, "Whoa! And who's that? Your twin?"

"No. My mom,"

"Wow, has everyone ever told you, you two could be twins?"

"Yeah, we get that a lot,"

We were laughing again, when the snooty ladies came and said, "Lorraine, we have an appointment,"

"Of course, Mother, this is Dana,"

"Hello."

"Hi," I said

"Lorraine, now."

"Yes, coming. Bye, it was nice meeting you,"

"Bye," I said

Mom was at the register, ignoring me, so I ran over to her with the three things I had picked out. She had half my new closet.

"Mom, what is all this?"

"Clothes, believe me, you won't be able to wear any of your old clothes soon, so I've decided to splurge."
"Can't argue with that."

Later, when we had gotten home, the first thing I did was change, I put on an off white peasant like blouse that had elastic under the bust, and the rest flowed out, green cargo pants, and brown wedges. I heard somewhere you aren't supposed to wear high shoes when you're expecting, but nothing was coming between me and my high shoes. I came down the stairs, and Mom gawked in awe.

"Awwwah…Dana, you look so pretty,"

"Thanks," I said feeling a little lame. Just as she said that the front door swung open and Dad and Brad stood there.

"Phil!" Mom said

"Brad!" I said, dashing down the stairs to him.

He and I immediately kissed, as did Mom and Dad. I had anticipated that Mom and Dad would conveniently disappear so he and I could talk about how many near death experiences he'd had on the trip with Dad, but surprisingly, they didn't go anywhere, so he and I did. I glanced at them a few times like, 'Um, you can go now,' but they didn't pick up on it, so I had to escort Brad out of the entry way, and into the living room.

"So, how was the trip?" I said casually

"It was fine….why?"

"Did my Dad try to kill you?" I blurted out abruptly, so much for being casual.

"No…"

"Phew."

"Do I even want to know why you thought that would happen?"

"Well I um…I…I didn't think he was very fond of you since he found out about the baby…and why am I telling you this,"

"Well, despite the fact he may not like me, he certainly didn't try to kill me,"

"Of course not, I just, I um…" I had started pacing the room because I was all nervous now, so he could now see me in profile, and see that I was showing now.

"Oh my God…"

"What?"

"You're showing,"

"I'm what?"

"Showing," he said, then pointed to my stomach

"Oh, God, you can actually tell?" I said looking down at it

"Yes, which is a good thing because now we know we can't lose it,"

"We can't?"

"No…well, I don't think so,"

"Oh my God, this is great!" I ran to hug him, I knew even if I wouldn't be a great mother, Brad would be a great father, he always knew what to say, and he knew he would love our baby more than anything.

"So, that also means we'll be able to tell what we're having soon,"

"Yes! I can't wait!" I paused, "Do we want to know?"

"Well, yeah, if you do,"

"Of course,"

"O.K., then we'll know,"

"Do you have a preference?"

"Um…before I tell you, you know that no matter what it is, I won't care, that I'll love it exactly the same, right?"

"Of course,"

"O.K., then, I hope we have a-"

"Dana!" Mom called from the other room.

"Ah, the optimum time for interruption," I said, "Can you excuse me for a second?"

He just nodded, and I clunked my way into the kitchen. Mom and Dad were sitting at the table on the phone. Like they had the phone facing outward, and they were both leaning close to it, so they both could hear who was on the other line.

"What?" I said

"It's your doctor, they want to talk to you," Dad said

"And you're on the phone, why?"

"Because I-just take the phone!" Dad said

"Brad!" I called, I thought he should be present for this, then when he came in the kitchen, I took the phone and said, "Hello?"

A/N: Cliff-hangah! Haha, lol actually I left it at that 'cause I have to go, lol more definitely soon! Plus, Britannia better update her story so this one gets advertisement! lol

-LiZzIe