Boy. Jamie. Jimmy. Joey. Josh. Jake. Jeremy. Jonah. What's with all the J's?
I stuck my hands over my face and actually started to cry. I sat on my bed, cross-legged and cried. I don't know how long I sat there on my bed crying but it must have been awhile 'cause at some point my brother got home from work and found me. He eased open the door and sat down next to me.
"What's wrong sis?" he asked me.
My head shot up, "Wrong! What's wrong? Come on Dan! What's right!?" he made a noise between his tongue and teeth and replied, "Come on Dolly. Cheer up. What was that Torchwood place about?"
I quickly gave him a summary of my morning adventures and when I was finished Dan smiled.
"See. There. You've had some luck haven't you sis?"
"Luck?" I asked indignantly.
"Yer, well you met them people that are real clued in to all that alien junk so now you got options."
"Oh yer, options." I sighed, "Danny I can't decide what to do. I know it sounds strange but I think I love this…this…this thing inside me."
Dan shook his head in disbelief, "Just like you sis. You got a heart of gold there, you know under the sister parts."
I laughed and hit him in the arm, "Shut up Danny."
"So, if you an't gonna get rid of it, you gonna raise it then?" he asked, suddenly serious.
I sighed, "Now that the thing isn't it? I just don't know."
Dan sat there with his head faced away from me and was suddenly thoughtful then he turned back towards me and asked, "Names. How about names. If you can name it, keep it. If you can't maybe that's a sign you shouldn't."
"Can it really be that simple?"
Dan smiled wide, "Oh sis, the best things in life are simple."
So we spend the next twenty minutes thinking up names. Names for boys and girls and a few unisex names just in case it turned out the thing didn't have a gender. We had a lot of fun, me and Danny, thinking up names for my alien baby but I still hadn't chosen; we decided that the deadline was when 'it' was born.