A/N: I'm gonna stop doing the shoutout things and just reply to your reviews. It's too much work for me to remember. Thanks! Oh, and sorry for the wait. I find it hard to think up new things. I've got the rest of the book planned out and it's about 19 chapters, but it takes a lot of time and creativity to make up all the insides of these stories! Anyways, a blab there. Enjoy!

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The sun was shining down on the sheets in Kaden's room, waking her up on an early spring morning. The smell of freshly baked bread and blooming flower's pollen filled her waking nostrils as she sat up, frowning. If it was a perfect day, why did she feel so terrible?

She got up, and when she stood up, she felt her late night snack start to come up. She ran to the bathroom and made it just in time. 'Strange,' She thought. 'What did I eat yesterday that my body didn't agree to? It was probably that brownie I had late last night.'

After she had washed the taste out of her mouth, brushed her teeth twice and got dressed into a simple grey spring dress, she got ready to go downstairs for breakfast and realized how hungry she was. She could eat a whole cow!

She rushed to the mess hall, as she did so many times before, and ate her breakfast, enjoying the sunshine through the windows and the sound of birds singing their morning song.

"Kaden! Just the person I was looking for!" Ambrose exclaimed.

"Why were you lookign for me?" She asked, suddenly feeling a bit moody.

"I want to have a talk with you. Can you join me in the gardens after this?" Kaden nodded and watched her beautiful friend walk off, looking like the brightest person in the world. She sighed as she finished off her breakfast, having enough room for seconds, and slowly scuttled down to the gardens.

By this time of the year the gardens had almost fully bloomed and flowers poked here and there. The whoel garden was big enough for 500 people to fit in, although they didn't expect 500 to do this, and it was surrounded by vined bush walls. Flowers from throughout the realm were gardened here such as gardenias, clementias and snap dragons. Trees of all different kinds were also cultivated through the gardens. There were gardeners out and about, watering, weeding and such, and there were people. Tourists who came just to site see, friends and lovers for a nice walk and talk and various court-related lawyers, judges or nobles discussing the latest politics. Kaden made her way through the whole garden, circling twice just to make sure Ambrose was there. By the third time, she was about to leave and bumped into someone.

"I'm sorry, I-" She looked up and saw Ambrose.

"Kaden, are you alright? I'm sorry, I was in such a hurry and I just wasn't watching where I was going and I'm late! I'm so, so, sorry!"

"It's okay, calm down." Kaden smiled as warmly as she could manage.

"Lets go sit. I've got some great news!" They found their way to a wooden bench sitting next to a duck pond where frogs, birds, ducks and insects came to play.

"Sure," They sat for a few minutes and then Kaden couldn't contain her curiousness. "What is it? You're smiling and shaking and you're getting goosebumps! Tell me already!"

"Okay, there's really no other way to say it, so I'll be blunt." Kaden nodded, excitement bubbling inside. What was making Ambrose so jumpy? She never got this way. "Edvard proposed! I'm engaged!"

"What? Oh, Ambrose I'm so happy for you!" She jumped up to hug her friend and suddenly got extremely dizzy. She had to use the bench to steady herself and closed her eyes for a few minutes.

"Are you okay, Kaden?" Ambrose asked with a concerned look on her face after she had steadied herself.
"Oh, sure, I'm completely fine. I'm just excited about this wedding of yours! When are you having it? How did all of this happen?" Ambrose grinned widely.

"Well, actually," Then she frowned. "Wait a second, don't change the subject! You weren't okay just then! You almost fell over! Have you gone to the healer?"

"No, but Ambrose, you know how much I hate to do that!"

"But this is important. Either you go to the healer, or I won't invite you to my wedding!"

"You're just being silly, Ambrose, come on!" Ambrose stood with her hands on her hips and a serious ook on her face. She wouldn't budge.

"I'll walk you there." She said happily, making up Kaden's mind for her. When they arrived, Kaden went inside timidly and sat on the chair that they had in the office. The healer came up and asked her a few questions before she put her hands in Kaden's. Kaden felt a slightly tingling go up her arms and in her head, in her chest, and then to her stomach. Except something strnage happened. It stopped. It did something that hurt a little and then she let go of Kaden's hands.

"What's wrong with me? What did you do?"

"Kaden, I'm proud to announce to you that you're pregnant."

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A/N: Thanks to all of the reviewers, tortallanrider, Queen Tigeress, Thayet1231, 0jenjen0, Madame-S-Butterfly and TortallGal! I really appreciate the advice and the reviews! Please R&R!