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Ch. 47 Let's Make a Promise, Baby
(ADAM)
"But I'm going to be so bored staying here, isn't being in the hospital for a week rest enough?" I hear Clare complaining from her room.
"No you died and the doc said for you to take it easy so you're going to take it easy. I will be here with you, then Lucas will be here at ten and people will be over after school," Spinner tells her.
"You need to actually relax, if I get a phone call that you tried to move or something I will come back from school to yell at you," I warn her poking my head into my sister's room and she sticks her tongue out at me.
"I love you too," I laugh before leaving her room.
"If it was anyone else they'd be happy to have the break from school," Maya comments as she comes out of my room.
"Yeah but Clare isn't anyone else," I reply.
The rest of us get ready for school and eat some breakfast before leaving for school. Maya and I ride with Fitz in his car, Drew and Bianca go in his car. Fitz starts his community service after school so he needs his car. We know Tris is coming back to school today and we find Zane waiting in the foyer so we wait with him. We ask if there's any news on Riley and he tells us Riley is the same, Zane asks about Clare and we tell him she's good and eager to get back to school and then we see Owen walking in with Tris.
"Hey guys," Tris grins coming in.
"You look great how do you feel?" Zane asks.
"I feel good," Tris smiles.
"I'll carry your books to your first period class," Zane offers. Tris smiles and Owen hands Zane Tristan's backpack. A bunch of the Ice Hounds come in and I put my arm around Maya, but she looks over at the Ice Hounds and shrugs my arm off before running after Tris and Zane.
"Hold up I'll come with you guys I have the same homeroom," Maya calls to them.
"That was odd," Drew speaks my feelings.
"Yeah she's been a little distant lately," I reply as we all start walking to our lockers.
"Problems?" Owen questions.
"No, I mean I don't think so but I was pretty stressed with Clare in the hospital and I yelled at Maya. I apologized for that though and I thought we were good again. But she's been acting a little strange, like she either can't be with me enough or can't be far enough away from me."
"You should talk to her," Fitz advises patting my shoulder before he walks off to his locker. I know he's right but I'm a little afraid to talk to her, I feel like in some ways she's been pulling away from me since the Ice Hounds came and my fear is that she wants to break up. Heaving a heavy sigh I open my locker to get out my books.
When I get to homeroom Jenna and K.C. ask about Clare. Alli asks when Clare is coming back to school and I tell her that she'll be back next week for half the day. Classes are kind of lonely without my twin, at lunch I stash my backpack and walk to Maya's locker to find her.
"You want to eat lunch at The Dot?" I ask my girlfriend.
"Yeah sure," she shrugs.
We start walking to The Dot and when we pass the Ice Hounds she takes my hand and interlaces our fingers. I start to ask her what's going on but K.C. and Jenna join us, we eat lunch with them and I never do ask Maya what's going on with her. After lunch I walk Maya to her locker before going to my locker to get my books and go to 3rd period music class, Jenna and K.C. are in this class with me.
"We're meeting Joey and Caitlin for our prenatal at four but I was thinking they could pick us up from your house so we could see Clare for a bit," Jenna tells me when we leave third period.
"Cool, I know she'll be happy for the company after being forced to stay home all day," I respond. I wave to them as they walk to their last period class and I walk to my fourth period forces of nature class.
We read from our textbooks and watch a movie then are given a project due next week. I leave fourth period, grab a couple books from my locker and go out to the front to wait for the others. Owen waves to me before he walks to the Ice Hounds bus. Zane and Tris tell me to say hi to Clare, they're going to the hospital to see Riley and then going to Tristan's house. Jenna and K.C. are the next ones out and they wait with me, Fitz waves before he leaves for his community service, Drew and Bianca come out and finally Maya comes out. We all get into Drew's car, Maya sits on my lap in the back, and he makes the short drive to our house.
"We're home," Drew calls as soon as we're inside.
"She's all yours, I had to fight her to stay in bed most of the day," Lucas tells us walking out of Clare's bedroom holding her in his arms. Lucas kisses Clare's cheek and hands her to Drew. "I'll be over tomorrow, I gotta get home and get ready for work. See ya kids," Lucas waves before leaving.
"Have you eaten?" Drew asks as he sets Clare on the sofa. Jenna and K.C. sit next to her and Bianca goes into the kitchen.
"I had some lunch but I am a little hungry," Clare replies.
"Already making a snack," Bianca calls from the kitchen and Drew grins.
"So how was school?" Clare asks.
K.C. and Jenna start telling her about school and I pull Maya's hand so she'll come with me into my room. I shut my door and pull Maya to the bed sitting with her, I keep a hold of her hand but she won't look me in the eye and is fingering a hole in her jeans.
"Something's going on I know it is. You either run from me or want to be closer to me every time the Ice Hounds are around. At times you pull away from me and at other times it's like you can't get enough of me. Are you still mad at me for yelling when Clare was in the hospital? Do you want to break up so you can date an Ice Hound?" I question but the words hurt coming from my mouth and when she looks away I feel a pang in my heart.
"I don't want to break up Adam," she says quietly.
"Then what's going on?" I question.
"I just…" she begins and then stops and she still won't look at me.
"Maya talk to me please I know you're holding something back," I urge her.
"I…it's umm…" she trips over a response and still won't look at me, I worry that she's trying to think of a response and still isn't telling me the truth. "I've been thinking about sex lately," she finally says and I laugh.
"Is that all? Why didn't you say something?" I query tipping her chin up to look at me but she still fights meeting my gaze.
"Well it's not like we can, I mean you won't even take your top off in front of me," Maya replies.
"Yeah because I'm still in a girl's body and I don't want you to think of me that way. Just because we can't have sex doesn't mean there's nothing we can do. Stay over tonight and I'll show you," I insist and she finally meets my eyes and grins.
"Okay," she nods.
"Good now let's go out there before Clare comes looking for us," I tell her before snatching her lips for a tender kiss.
(OWEN)
"Owen wake up," Tris says shaking me and interrupting the wonderfully sexy dream I was having about Vanessa.
"What? What's going on? Who's hurt?" I ask quickly as I sit up. It's still dark outside so the only reason he could be waking me this early is if someone is hurt.
"No one is hurt Zane just called and Riley's awake can you take me to the hospital?" Tris pleads.
I grab my phone from the nightstand to look at the time, "Yeah let me get dressed."
"Thanks Owen I'll meet you in the living room," Tris says before leaving my room.
It's a little before 4:30 in the morning but Riley's parents did promise to call Zane as soon as Riley woke up. They still don't know about the threesome relationship, they don't even know that Riley is gay they just think the three of them are very close friends and that after suffering the beating together they're worried about Riley.
I throw on some clothes and when I get to the living room Tris is leaving a note for Mom and Dad. We lock up as we leave getting into my car and driving to the hospital. I park and follow Tris inside, it's obviously past visiting hours but between Tris, Riley and Clare all being in here in the last few weeks I'm pretty sure the entire staff knows us now. When we get to Riley's room we see Zane outside the room, leaning against the wall.
"Hey," Zane says hugging Tris and nodding to me, "his parents asked me not to go in yet."
"Have they said anything? How is he?" Tris asks rapidly.
"I don't know anything yet, his mom was sleeping here and she called me right after calling his dad. When I got here his parents stopped me at the door and said the doctor was looking at him and I couldn't see him yet. His mom was crying but I don't know if it was happy or sad tears," Zane tells us.
"Hey he's awake that's good news right?" I comment because they both look worried.
"Yeah that's definitely good news," Zane nods.
We wait in silence for a while, leaning against the wall. When the door opens and a doctor comes out we try to peak in but Riley's dad walks out and then his mom steps out and looks at us.
"Thank you boys for coming. You can come in and see Riley but there is a couple things you need to know first," his mom tells us with a heavy sigh. I know it's not good news and I put a hand on my brother's shoulder. "His head trauma caused some significant brain damage, Riley has some amnesia and he's lost some motor skills, and speech. He's almost like a toddler again, he recognizes me and his father but he may not know who you are, we're not sure how bad the amnesia is yet. I need to speak to my husband but you boys can go in and see Riley for a few minutes."
"Thanks Mrs. Stavros," I reply putting my other hand on Zane's shoulder and directing the two of them into Riley's room.
Riley is awake, sitting up in bed a little, his expression is happy but it's also very little kid like. Tris and Zane are shocked but are trying not to show it, with my hands still on their shoulders I feel them tense up. Neither seems able to speak, and while Riley looks happy to see them he also doesn't seem to be able to place them. Since neither Tris nor Zane seem to be able to break the silence I decide that I had better.
"Hi Riley, how you doing?" I ask him.
"Hi," Riley smiles and waves.
"Hey Riley do you know who we are?" Zane asks cautiously.
"No," Riley shakes his head, "are you m…m…my friends?" It takes a while for Riley to ask the question and he stutters a little. It's a struggle for him and it's hard for even me to watch I know how much it must be hurting Tris and Zane.
"Yeah," Zane nods and then clears his throat so he can speak clearly, "yeah Riley we're your friends."
Riley smiles but doesn't say anything else and we're getting uncomfortable as no one really knows what to say, Riley is like a child, he doesn't remember us. Thankfully Riley's mom comes back in and saves us from having to think of anything to say.
"Okay boys Riley needs to rest, you can come back later to see him," Riley's mom tells us.
"Bye Riley," we all wave.
"Bye bye," he says slowly trying to wave but it looks more like a toddler waving. As we leave the room all I can think of is Riley on the football field, his athleticism and strength, but now because of some assholes beating my brother and his boyfriends because they're gay Riley will never get his life back the way it was.
"Let's go to The Dot, Spin is opening we can get in and get some coffee," I comment as we walk out to the parking lot.
"Yeah I could use some coffee," Zane nods.
"Why don't you leave your car here, we'll go in my car and you guys can get a ride over here after school," I suggest and Zane nods.
We get in my car and I drive us to The Dot, the bakers have been here since four and Spin usually gets here at five to open. I park and we go to the front door, I knock and Spin looks through the blinds before opening the door.
"What are you three doing up so early?" Spin asks as we come in.
"Riley woke up, we need coffee," I reply as Tris and Zane sit at a table.
"I would think Riley waking up would be a good thing," Spinner remarks as he turns off the coffee machine.
"Yeah," I nod following him to the counter and looking back at Zane and Tris, "yeah it should have been but his brain damage was pretty severe. He doesn't remember them and he's like a kid, his motor skills and speech are impaired, he's not Riley anymore."
"Geez that sucks," Spin sighs.
When the coffee is done Spin pours three mugs and I bring them to Tris and Zane with sugar and cream. We sit and drink the coffee while Spinner opens the café, after two cups and a little bit to eat I run Zane home so he can change for school and grab his backpack. Then he comes home with us while Tris and I do the same. While we change Zane tells our parents about Riley. It's not even eight by the time we're all ready but I still take us to school.
"We should tell Principal Simpson about Riley, I'm not sure that Riley's parents thought to call," Zane comments when we go inside the school.
"Yeah probably not, you want me to go with you?" I ask.
"No we can do this," Tris tells me.
I walk to my locker and stash my backpack then go to the foyer to wait for the gang or my team. I sit on the steps of the foyer watching the front doors. The first people in are Jenna and K.C. so I tell them. When Fitz, Bianca, Drew, Adam and Maya arrive I tell them about Riley. Jeff and Dallas arrive a short time later and I go with them, they don't really know Riley so I don't tell them. Before the bell rings I go back to my locker to get my backpack.
"Hey you look upset," Vanessa says coming over to me.
"Riley woke up but he's severely brain damaged, he doesn't remember Tris or Zane. They're pretty upset about it but I also don't think they've fully processed it," I tell her.
"Yeah something like that would be hard for anyone to process, but they were hiding their relationship from Riley's family. It's gotta be so hard on them," Vanessa replies kissing my cheek as the bell rings. "Walk me to class?" Vanessa asks.
"Of course," I grin putting my arm around her and walking her to homeroom. I kiss her at the door and walk to my homeroom native studies class.
"I texted Clare and told her about Riley, she's going to call Tris at lunch," Fitz tells me when I get into class and I nod.
I find it hard to concentrate all morning, my mind goes between thinking about Tris and his boyfriends and what happens now, to thinking about me and Vanessa, to for whatever reason thinking about Clare, Fitz and Jeff. At lunch I go find Vanessa deciding I want to eat lunch with her alone.
"Hey Gorgeous," I smile finding her at her locker, "we should have lunch alone."
"Sounds good to me," she grins. I buy us both lunch and we take it into the memorial garden, there's a couple niners in here but I kick them out. "How's your brother?" Vanessa asks as we begin eating.
"Not sure I haven't seen him since this morning. I'm sure he's with Zane and I know Clare was going to call him at lunch. I'll check in with him after we eat."
"How's Clare doing?"
"She's good, besides being in a love triangle and being bored out of her mind at home. Jenna's birthday is Thursday and they're doing a dinner for her that night at the Mason house if you want to come?"
"I'd love to, as long as I'm not crashing Jenna's birthday."
"No you wouldn't be crashing, you'd be my date," I tell her and she grins.
We finish eating and I walk her to her locker and embrace her lips in a tender kiss before I leave her. I find my brother with Zane under the front stairs. They still look sad and a little blank. I ask how they're doing but all they can do is shrug. I don't really concentrate in third period either but I have a spare last period and so does Vanessa so we spend it together, somehow being with her makes everything better and by the time it's time to leave for practice I'm able to clear my head. I do concentrate in practice and when I get home Tris is home.
"Hey little bro did you go see Riley after school?" I ask sitting with him on the sofa.
"Yeah we did but it's not Riley anymore," Tris sighs, "he doesn't remember us. He's like a toddler. His parents are going to send him to a group home for other kids like him when he gets out of the hospital. Zane and I broke up with him, no that's not even right because he doesn't even realize he was in a relationship with us, he doesn't remember. But we couldn't stay with him."
"No you couldn't, you and Zane are still dating though?"
"Yeah, we still like each other and we're going to try and make it work."
"It really sucks about Riley, you know I'm here if you want to talk," I tell Tris and he nods.
"I know thanks big bro."
I tousle his hair and get off the sofa, grabbing the dinner Mom left for me and take it back to my room to do my homework. I find it hard to concentrate though as my mind keeps wandering to the uncertainty of life. I think about our gang at the end of summer at that beach BBQ and how much things have changed since August, I wonder how much more change is in store for all of us.
(LUCAS)
"You know the doctor said I can go on walks," Clare tells me when I catch her trying to put on her shoes Wednesday afternoon.
"Spin didn't say anything about walks," I retort taking her shoes.
"If I don't move my muscles are going to atrophy," she pouts jutting out her lip in a pathetic puppy dog look.
"Fine," I give in, it's hard to say no to that look it's one of the reasons she has so many of us wrapped around her finger. "Down the block, slowly and on my arm," I tell her putting her shoes on for her.
"Thanks Lucas," she grins.
"If you look tired or falter once I will pick you up and bring you straight back here," I tell her and she nods. With her shoes on I take her hands and help her up, she links her arm with mine and we walk slowly out of her house.
"So are you bringing Mia to Jenna's birthday tomorrow?" Clare asks.
"Of course," I grin, "we'll have to leave on the early side so I can get to work though. Tonight is my night off."
"It's also a school night so the party will be over by nine or ten anyway and Spin is insistent that I rest so I'm sure he'll kick out anyone not sleeping over no later than ten."
"You need to rest you died," I remind her and she grimaces at me.
"Why does everyone keep reminding me of that whenever I try to do anything?"
"Because you died and me and Adam were there," I tell her and she just bites her lip. We walk about half a block but then her legs begin to shake and I can tell she's getting tired. "Alright that's enough for today. If you're exhausted and unable to move when everyone gets home from school I won't be able to keep you company anymore," I remark as I pick her up.
I carry her back to her house and set her on the sofa. I get her some water and sit down with her, she has the TV on and we watch until Adam, Bianca, Drew and Maya get home from school.
"I gotta get home, Mia's coming over after school and I'm making dinner for her. I'll be over tomorrow," I tell Clare kissing her cheek.
I say goodbye to the others and go out to my car driving to the grocery store. It's a little after three and Mia is coming around five. I have just enough time to shop and make my mom's famous chicken before Mia arrives. It's about the only dish I know how to make that doesn't involve pasta. I do the shopping and get home, I get the chicken potatoes and onions in the roasting pan in the oven, take a quick shower and change. I check the chicken, start the green beans and get the table set. By the time Mia does actually arrive everything is ready. She knocks on the door and I answer, grinning at the vision of her when I open the door.
"You look great," I tell her taking her hand and pulling her into the apartment. I close the door and lock it while I capture her lips in a kiss.
"Thanks, you look very nice too," she smiles when I release her lips. "It smells great in here."
"Dinner's ready take a seat," I insist.
Mia sits down and I get the chicken carving it up and putting it on a platter with the potatoes, onions and green beans arranged around it. I take it out to the table and Mia smiles.
"It looks amazing."
"Thanks, it my mom's famous chicken and it's the only dish that my mom taught us both to make that doesn't involve boiling water for pasta. We did a lot of macaroni when I was little," I tell her while putting some chicken on her plate. I know she likes white meat so I put two of the thick breast slices on her plate. She gets as many vegetables as she wants and I serve myself before sitting down.
"This is great you're really a good cook," Mia says and I laugh.
"No just this and macaroni, and I make a mean salami sandwich," I reply and she laughs. Mia takes another bite and we fall into silence, I watch her and she looks happy at first but then she seems to be worried about something, I can see stress in her eyes even though on her face she keeps that beautiful smile of hers. "Is something wrong? You seem a little distracted?"
"I'm sorry just…there's something I need to tell you," she says slowly.
"It looks like bad news, are you moving or something?"
"No, no not moving school is going great."
"So what is it? You're not seeing someone else are you?"
"No. Lucas no I love you," Mia says.
"I love you too so what is it? Please Mia you can tell me anything," I urge her.
"I'm pregnant," she tells me and my heart stops before it begins pounding out of my chest at these two little words. "Lucas please say something? We have options a…"
"No we don't," I refute as I snap out of the shock, "no we don't. K.C. and Jenna are giving their baby up for adoption because they're in high school. K.C. doesn't have a job and they live in a tiny apartment. I have a job, a good one, and we can get a two-bedroom apartment. Move in with me, I already asked you to move in with me. We are not aborting I want you and I want this baby."
"But I still have school," Mia argues weakly.
"Do you love me? Do you trust me? Do you want to be with me? Do you want this baby?"
"Yes to everything," Mia replies with a happy grin.
"Then we can do this. Move in with me, we will start looking for a two bedroom apartment. You'll probably have to take off a little bit of school right when the baby is born but I already work nights I can be home with the baby during the day and you'll have the night shifts, unless I'm off. I'm sure my mom will babysit sometimes, and Clare, Paige, Emma, probably Adam and maybe Maya would all be happy to babysit," I assert getting up and going over to Mia I kneel down and take her hand in mine. "Mia Jones will you please move in with me and raise my baby with me?"
"Yes Lucas," she grins happily, "yes I will."
I beam with a happy grin, a happiness like I've never felt. I pull her chair back and pick her up into my arms, crushing our lips together. Mia's arms go around my neck and I twirl around with her in my arms. Mia giggles but I set her down before she gets dizzy.
"We should tell people," I say excitedly and then look at our half-eaten dinner. "We should finish eating first," I comment and she giggles again. We sit down to eat again but neither of us can stop smiling, we're not eating much and we won't take our eyes off each other. "I'm too excited to eat, Mom should be off work you want to go over there and tell her with me? Or should we tell your mom first?" I ask.
"Let's tell my mom last but I would like to go tell your mom, she's nice and I'm sure she'll be happy," Mia replies.
We leave our half eaten dinner and go out to my car driving to my mom's place. I have a key still so I just open the door.
"Mom it's me and Mia," I call into the house.
"Hi kids, what are you doing here?" Mom greets as she comes out of the kitchen wiping her hands on a towel. She hugs me and kisses my cheek before hugging Mia. "Are you hungry? I was just heating up some dinner but I can throw something together."
"No we were eating we actually just left dinner to tell you some news. Mia's going to move in with me, we're getting a bigger apartment because Mia's pregnant," I tell Mom.
"I'm going to be a grandma?"
"Yeah, it was a shock and we've always been safe but condoms aren't a hundred percent effective. We're happy about it Mom, we want to be together and we want to have this baby," I tell her and Mom's smile grows a little bigger.
"Then I'm happy for both of you and I can't wait to be a grandma," Mom says hugging us both tightly and kissing Mia's cheek.
"Thanks Mom. I promise we'll come to dinner soon but right now we have more people to tell and I want to do it tonight," I tell Mom. She hugs us both again before we leave. "Do you want to call your mom?" I ask Mia as we begin driving.
"Let's call her when we get back to your apartment, who do you want to tell next?"
"My friends, all of them I want to tell the whole gang. They'll all be at the Mason's tomorrow for Jenna's birthday but I don't want to announce it on Jenna's birthday that's her day."
"Agreed," Mia nods.
"But a good portion of them are probably at the Mason's now so we can tell them and then we can maybe get Johnny, Em and Sean to meet us at Jay's place, Owen too if he's not at the Mason's. Jenna being pregnant and giving the baby up I'm not sure how she'll take the news."
"Let's tell the others first, it's not that late maybe K.C. and Jenna can meet us for dessert," Mia says and I grin.
We drive to the Mason house and I park out front, the door is rarely locked at this time of day so we walk right in. Adam, Maya, Owen, Drew and Bianca are in the living room.
"HEY EVERYONE GET OUT HERE WE HAVE NEWS," I yell into the house.
"It better be good news because I can't take any more bad news," Spinner says coming out of the kitchen with Paige.
"We're coming," Fitz calls coming down the hall behind a slow moving Clare.
"So what's the news?" Clare questions as Drew gets up so she can sit on the sofa.
"Hang on don't sit down I'll be hugging you in a minute," I tell Clare stopping her. So she leans on Fitz and he puts his arms around her instead.
"So don't leave us in suspense what's the news?" Owen asks.
"We're moving in together and we're pregnant," I tell them all with a beaming grin.
"That's fantastic news I love you two together," Clare squeals leaving Fitz's arms to hug Mia and I at the same time.
"Congratulations buddy it's great to hear some good news," Fitz says hugging Mia and me when Clare let's go of us.
"Awesome news, I've never seen you look so happy. You know we'll help you move," Spinner grins.
"I'll be happy to babysit," Paige smiles.
Everyone hugs us and gives us similar sentiments and congratulations. We thank them all and tell them we need to tell some more people still so we get going. I let Mia drive my car and I call Jay asking if we can come over and if he can get Johnny, Sean and Em over as well. Jay says to come on over and he'll call the others. When I hang up with Jay I call K.C. and it takes a couple rings before he answers.
"Hey Lucas."
"Hey what are you and Jenna up to in like forty-five minutes?"
"Uh homework," K.C. replies.
"Think you can take a break to get some dessert with me and Mia?"
"Yeah sure," K.C. says.
"Good I'll text you when we're leaving Jay's and we'll pick you up."
"Okay see you soon," K.C. responds before hanging up.
"K.C. and Jenna will meet us for dessert," I tell Mia and she smiles. When we reach Jay's place I see Sean's car but not Johnny's. Mia and I get out and I knock on the door, Jay opens it a few seconds later and steps aside to let us in.
"Johnny should be here in a few minutes. You want a beer or anything?" Jay asks.
"No we're good we're meeting Jenna and K.C. soon for dessert," I reply putting my arm around Mia.
"You're going to make us wait until Johnny gets here to tell us the news aren't you?" Sean asks.
"Yep," I nod just as there's another knock on the door. Jay opens the door and Johnny comes in.
"We wanted to tell you that we're moving in together and we're pregnant," I announce again.
"Congrats dude that's amazing," Jay grins.
"Yeah that's fantastic you two are great together," Johnny smiles.
"We're happy for both of you, if you ever need someone to take the baby overnight we'll be happy too," Emma says as she hugs us.
"Uh we will?" Sean asks and Emma elbows him. "Yeah of course we will," Sean corrects and hugs us.
"Thanks, we've told almost everyone else, speaking of which we need to go get K.C. and Jenna."
We say goodbye to them and I text K.C. that we're on our way. Mia and I get in my car and I drive us to the apartment building the Guthrie's live in, and Jenna lives in since moving in with them. I text K.C. that we're downstairs and they come out a couple minutes later. They still have homework and we still have a couple of phone calls to make so I don't want to take too long. I take them to a little coffee shop and buy us all coffee, hot chocolate and dessert.
"We have some good news but given you're situation we weren't sure how you'd take it. We're pregnant, we're happy about it and we're keeping the baby. We're going to get a bigger apartment and move in together," I tell the younger kids.
"That's great news, you guys make a good couple I'm happy for you," K.C. smiles.
"Yeah I'm happy for you too. Keeping the baby is not right for me and K.C. but we were blessed to find Joey and Caitlin to take the baby and that we'll be able to be involved. This is great news and I can tell you're both really happy about it," Jenna grins.
"Thanks, and for the record I do think you're doing the right thing," I tell them. We finish dessert and I take them home, we say goodnight and I drive Mia and I back to my place. "Should we call your mom or Jane first?" I ask Mia after locking the door.
"Let's call my mom," she says getting out her phone. She dials a number and puts it on speaker.
"Hi Sweetie," her mom answers.
"Hi Mom it's me and Lucas. We have some news," Mia tells her.
"Is this good news?"
"Well we think so and we're very happy about it," I speak up.
"I'm moving in with Lucas and we're pregnant," Mia tells her.
"We're happy about it and we're keeping the baby. I work nights and I can stay with the baby during the day so Mia can go to school," I assure her mom.
"Well I guess I'll be coming up this summer to meet you Lucas," Mia's mom comments.
"Absolutely you can stay with us, I'm sure Mia would love to have you here," I reply.
"As long as you're happy I'm happy for you as always Honey."
"Thanks Mom," Mia replies with a relieved grin. "We still have to tell Lucas' sister so I'll talk to you later, I love you."
"I love you too Mia."
We hang up with Mia's mom and I call Jane, only it goes straight to voicemail which either means she's working or studying. I leave a voice message asking Jane to call me back.
"I guess that's everyone, should we clean up from dinner?" Mia asks.
"I have a better idea," I reply picking her up into my arms with a devilish grin, "let's go celebrate."
Mia giggles before our lips connect and I carry her into the bedroom.
Update soon probably starting with Jenna's birthday and including Lucas and Mia having dinner with his mom.