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ohana (family)

Steve had been gone for just over two weeks now and she was finding it lonely. She'd gone back to work managing the bar but promised she'd only do light duties to make sure she recovered 100%. Steve had rung as much as he could but she just wanted him back. Danny and the guys had come to the house a few times to watch films with her which made her feel a bit better about the situation and Danny made sure he either rang or text her every day to make sure she was okay which she found sweet but truth be told she just wanted him home.

It had been three weeks now since Steve had gone away and she'd promised Kono that they'd have a day out together shopping and eating. However standing there looking at herself in the mirror made her think that maybe the eating part of the day was a bad choice. Her clothes were a lot tighter than she remembered.

Tutting to herself she dived into her clothes yet again to find something that was a tad more comfortable before leaving to pick Kono up.

Kono had tried on about 15 outfits altogether whilst Jess just found herself sat outside the changing room waiting for her to make yet another appearance.

"Sooo what about this one?" she heard Kono announce as she came out with a tight blue bodycon dress making Jess lift her head. She looked amazing.

"Oh come on, what's up with your face? Is the dress that bad?" Kono asked as she found the same fed up expression on Jess's face that she had shown all day.

"Nothing, I'm fine honest," she replied eager for Kono to just drop the subject, "the dress is nice," she said as she pointed to it making yet another attempt to steer the topic to something else.

"Nooo way!" Kono told her as she came and filled the empty seat next to her, "what's going on with you?" she asked with a concerned tone.

She sighed. Kono had looked great in every single dress and outfit that she had tried on yet Jess could only focus on how she had felt when she noticed that her clothes were getting even tighter this morning and not in a good way.

She was hesitant at first to tell Kono what was wrong but soon realised by the time she had to take a breath that she had in fact told her everything that was wrong. The friendly advice that she was now waiting for never actually came instead all she saw was Kono sitting there with a huge grin on her face.

"Okay, what?" she asked eager to know what was making Kono smile so much.

Kono jumped up and disappeared into the changing room. Now she was really confused. What was up with her? She didn't have time to think of the possible answers to that question as Kono had reappeared, this time in her own clothes, and was taking Jess by the hand, "come on!" she shouted before practically dragging her out of the shop.

Kono stopped outside the health shop and turned to face Jess with the same silly grin plastered all over her face. "Wait here!" she told Jess as once again she disappeared. She was gone for no more than two minutes before appearing in front of Jess with a bag and once again grabbing her by the hand and running in another direction.

"Okay," she heard Kono say as they stopped in front of the toilets. Opening the bag she placed whatever she had bought into Jess's hands. Looking down she was confused, it was a pregnancy test.

"Kono, I'm not pregnant, I haven't been sick or anything, trust me when I say I am definitely not pregnant!" she exclaimed laughing the whole thing off.

"Well humour me then at least?" Kono sighed, both trying to make the other see sense.

Jess shook her head but decided to go and take the test if only for her to come out and prove Kono wrong. This was nonsense! She found an empty toilet, unpacked the test and did whatever she needed to before placing the test on the side whilst she sorted herself out. She placed the test back into the box and placed it inside her bag. She washed her hands before making her way back outside to Kono who had now sat down on a bench waiting for her to come back out and spill the news.

"You took it?" Kono asked as she stood, grinning once again as Jess approached her.

"Yes, it's in my bag. But when I prove you wrong, you owe me lunch," she smirked, knowing that it was never going to come out positive.

Kono nodded, "DEAL! Now check it!"

Jess shook her head, laughing at how excitable Kono was right at this moment before reaching into her bag and picking out the box. She opened it up and brought out the test. They had now moved into a corner as she didn't want the whole of the shopping mall to see two women stood arguing over whether she was pregnant or not.

Taking one last look at Kono, who was practically jumping with excitement, she looked down at the test that was resting in her hands. Suddenly it was as if the whole world went silent. Her jaw dropped.

"Kono, this can't be right," she said quietly as she focused on the two lines that were now visible.

Kono leaned over and squealed so loud into Jess's eardrum that she was pretty sure her ear was beginning to bleed.

"I'm pregnant," she practically whispered before looking up, "Kono, I'm pregnant!" she exclaimed earning a few weird looks from people passing by.

"I TOLD YOU!" Kono screamed as she clapped her hands like a little child in a candy store.

"But I haven't been sick or anything?" she said trying to make sense of what was happening.

"Not everyone gets sick straight away Jess!" she replied before bringing her in for a hug. Kono pulled away confused.

"You are happy right?" she questioned not completely convinced by the shocked look that was still on Jess's face.

The silence that fell for no more than two minutes felt like an hour before a small smile appeared. "Yeah... yeah i am! Kono I'm pregnant!" she exclaimed as they both now jumped with excitement and hunted down the nearest diner to sit in and squeal about it a bit more.

As soon as Jess and Kono had got back to the house they had told the rest of the guys practically straight away. They were completely made up for Jess and had promised that she'd be the one to break the news to Steve. But she didn't want to tell him over the phone, that's not how they did things. Whenever either of them had something to tell the other it was always done face to face. But now four weeks had passed and she didn't know when he was coming home. He had rung her briefly to let her know that he was hoping he'd be coming soon but the call was ended pretty soon when he was urged to get off the phone due to an emergency.

She'd been to the doctors to confirm the pregnancy with Kono and was told that she and the baby were perfectly fine. She had gone with a thousand questions to ask the doctor, especially about the morning sickness that was nowhere to be seen, and was reassured when she was told that not every woman gets sick in the first trimester. She was about 12 weeks gone and had a cute little bump now developing. Night after night she found herself placing her hand on her stomach and feeling amazed at the thought that she had a life growing inside of her.

She was busy at work behind the bar serving a few regulars as she heard the door bell ring alerting the staff that someone had walked in. Looking up she found Danny and Chin walking over, arguing quietly between themselves about something. They stopped as they got to the bar and found a couple of stools to sit down on.

She smiled as she approached them, curious to know what they were doing in here so early, "didn't expect to see both of your faces in here this early! You finished work already?"

"I wish," Chin announced before asking for a water. Grabbing two bottles from the fridge, she placed them in front of them both and rested against the bar, "So what's up?"

"We're having a get together tonight at my house and want you to be there," Danny told her as he took a sip of his drink.

"Yeah okay, sounds good to me," she told him. It wasn't like she had anything else to do now was it.

"Great, Grace can't wait to see you," Danny told her as Chin answered his mobile that had rung for quite a while now.

She laughed as she realised what he had said, "wait.. So you told grace I was coming before ACTUALLY asking me?"

Danny raised his eyebrow as if it was obvious, "well yeah course I did, we all know you can't resist spending time with the best people in the world, can you?" he smirked. She shook her head playfully, he was right though, she loved spending time with them all. They had all been so good with her since Steve had gone away and for that she would be forever grateful. Chin signalled to Danny that they were needed elsewhere whilst still talking to whoever it was on the phone.

"So that's our cue to go and we will see you," he pointed towards her, "tonight! 8:30 okay for you?"

"Sure is," she smiled as Chin waved and whispered bye before leaving the bar.

She had bought quite a few new outfits to accommodate her growing stomach and was happy with what she had chosen for tonight. Putting on her lipstick, she checked herself in the mirror once again before leaving to make her way to Danny's house.

She was shocked when she arrived as there were more cars outside than she had expected. 'Thought this was just a get together' she thought to herself as she finally found a place to park. Walking up towards the house she could hear people in the back garden and decided to go round the back way. Kono was the first to see her as she jumped up and ran over to her.

"Hey!" she exclaimed before hugging her.

"Hey, thought this was just a small get together," she chuckled as she looked around and saw that it was now basically a party. Looking back at Kono she raised her eyebrow. She was just stood there staring hardly blinking.

"You okay?" Jess asked which seemed to bring Kono back to reality.

"God even pregnant you look amazing! Come on," and Jess laughed as Kono dragged her by the hand to the rest of the guys.

They all stood to greet her and give her a hug before Kono once again spoke up, "how is it that you still look THAT good even when you're pregnant!". Everyone laughed at the comment before Kamekona made his appearance known as he approached them, "Yeah you do look good sistah!" causing Jess to smile before giving him a hug.

Danny was making his way through everyone with Grace, greeting people as he went past before reaching the guys.

"Hey!" he exclaimed as he realised that Jess had arrived before leaning in to kiss her cheek.

"So this is a 'small' get together?" she chuckled.

"Yeah, relatively small," he answered as he looked around and smirked before winking at her playfully.

"Jess, do you wanna see the pond Danno got me?" Grace asked as she tugged on her skirt lightly.

"Sure pretty gal, let's go," she replied before smiling. Grace held out her hand, which Jess happily took, and let her lead the way to the back of the garden.

*Danny's POV*

Watching Grace lead Jess towards the pond he was relieved at the bit of privacy they now had. He checked his watch before turning to the guys, who were chatting among themselves, and coughed as a sign that he wanted all of them to take notice.

"Okay, we gotta get her in the house in the next twenty minutes or else everything goes downhill," he explained panicking that this would go wrong.

"Chill brah! You need to relax," Kamekona stated before offering him a beer.

"No this needs to go right!" he stated. He really was hoping this would all go the right way. Kono stood and made her way over to him as she placed her hand on his shoulder.

"Relax, it'll be fine" she said before drinking the rest of her beer.

Five minutes had now passed and his heart was beating out of his chest. Kono called out to Jess causing her to make her way back with Grace towards them. "You wanna help me with the food inside?" Kono asked her causing Danny to breathe a sigh of relief.

Jess smiled, "Sure!"

Kono, Jess and Grace made their way back to the house as Danny ran towards the front of the house making sure the night went according to plan.

*Jess's POV*

Grace had gone upstairs to her room to check on her dolls, or something like that, leaving both Jess and Kono in the kitchen. Kono was making sure there were enough plastic cups for everybody whilst Jess was cutting up some cucumber for the salad Danny had started to make but not finished.

"You want anything else adding to this?" Jess asked as she finished putting the cucumber in the bowl. She was confused when there wasn't a reply to her question. "Kono?" she asked again searching the cupboards for the salad dressing. Again silence filled the room.

"Kono?" she asked again this time a little louder as she turned around to find that the kitchen was now empty. Raising her eyebrows she wiped her hands on the towel before making her way to the front room curious as to where she could have gone. She entered the front room and saw that the front door was wide open and she could now hear several voices and a car door shut.

She was certain that she had heard Kono out there so she made her way outside. Sure enough, as she made her way outside, there they were. Kono, Chin and Danny stood looking like children that had just been caught stealing cookies. Making her way over to them the shocked expressions that they had on their face seemed to fade and were now replaced with huge smiles.

"What you all doing out here?" she asked curious to know why they were all stood out here and now curious to know what the huge smiles were about.

"You know leaving a pregnant woman alone with cookies isn't a very good idea," she told them and still they stood there, their smiles just as huge as before and still silent. She shook her head, realising that they obviously weren't going to tell her what was wrong, so she turned to make her way back to the house.

And there he was.

Her man. Stood in front of the house smiling.

She couldn't move and immediately could feel the tears prick at her eyes. He slowly walked towards her, his eyes never leaving hers until he was stood in front of her. Looking down at her stomach and then back up at her she could see he too was smiling and that tears were beginning to prick at his eyes too. Words didn't need to be spoken in order for her to see that he was happy. Reaching out she took one of his hands and placed it on her stomach as happy tears fell down her cheeks.

"They told me there was gonna be a surprise.. I never once thought the surprise would be that I get to be a dad," he told her quietly as he looked back up at her still smiling, his hand still placed on her stomach.

"You really do look beautiful," he said before placing his hand behind her neck and pulling her in for a kiss.

She simply couldn't describe how happy she was right now. The man she truly loved was back and her family was now whole again. He was truly happy at the thought of him becoming a father and that's all the reassurance she'd ever need. Steve, the baby and the team behind her were the only people in the world that mattered right now. This was her family.

This was her ohana.