Chapter 2: True Confessions of the Maternal

Grace still hadn't come home from the doctor and Will became a little nervous. To get his mind off things, he called Jack and Karen and told them to come over to his apartment quick to await the news.

"Wow Will! Getting Grace Prego again?" Jack teased.

"It wasn't me!" Will said with an annoyed look in his eye.

"Then who was it?" Karen questioned. "The couch? Lord only knows she's always on top of that thing!" she said with an amused chuckle. Karen and Jack gave each other a high-five.

"Shut-up you two! Can't you see you're making this situation worse for me?" He snapped.

"Why are you so uptight? It's not like it's your baby! Karen insisted.

"Or maybe somebody has his underwear in a twist!" Jack taunted.

"Come on guys! This is serious matter!" Will whined. Jack and Karen were laughing so hard they almost fell to the floor until Grace came in. Everyone was dead silent and no moved for a moment. Will started. "Well…what did the doctor say…?" Jack and Karen just stood there waiting for the answer they had been dying to hear. Grace looked tired, she had dark circle around her eyes and her countenance was drained.

She continued with a little smirk, "Well…I'm pregnant." "Wow! Who-o's the father?" Will was shaking slightly in his tone of voice as he walked over to her.

"The doctor doesn't know but I'm pretty sure I do. Will, do you remember that time we were on that airplane where I met up with Leo?"

"Oh my God, are you kidding me? He's the fa-" "Yes…" Grace interrupted. "…he is."

"You're not considering going back to him, are you?" Will said.

"No, no don't worry," she assured him. She looked directly into his eyes and held his hand. "This is going to be our baby." "Besides, Leo cheated on me. I'm not going to go crying back to him like some naive little school girl." They gave each other a big hug.

Meanwhile, Jack and Karen had still been standing there almost feeling out of place. Karen was surprised with herself, she was actually jealous of her. Knowing that Grace was pregnant gave Karen a negative effect. She thought while standing there:

Who is Grace kidding? She is that naïve little school girl. She made the mistake by getting herself pregnant by the man who cheated on her, probably hoping that maybe they would work things out that way because she's so afraid of being alone and unhappy. She doesn't even know what being unhappy is! And now that she's pregnant everything is supposedly ok and we should all by "happy" for Grace who has had such a "hard" time with being happy. She's such a whore.

Then suddenly she snapped out of her concentration of thought about Grace.

"Jackie, let's go!" she snapped.

"Why, Kare? Jack said with a mellow face. While Grace had been talking about being pregnant, Jack hadn't really been paying attention at all. Jack just kept focusing on his own problems and various solutions to manage them. His life sometimes felt distant to the others. He needed time to himself to find what was really troubling him.

She looked at him with a wicked stare trying to use her eye to get her point across; she didn't want them to know why she wanted to leave. Jack looked perplexed at her.

"Huh? Why do you want to lea-? Ouch!" Karen immediately stepped on his foot to shut him up.

She gave him another furious stare which was an indicator to him that if he didn't start moving it she wouldn't be kicking his foot the next time. "Ok, ok…" he whispered to her under his breath.

Will and Grace looked at them with disarray; it was the first time lately that they had taken any real concern into the behavior of Jack and Karen. "Sorry, we really have to go…uh good luck with the baby and stuff." Jack said as he was literally yanked out the door by Karen.

"Ok, well bye!" Grace responded sweetly. As the door shut, Will asked Grace. "What was the matter with them?" "I don't know Will, they have been acting strange."