"Are you ready to do this?" Nick asked Sara.

"No. You call them while I go to the bathroom."

"I thought you liked my family."

"I love your family but I'm hoping they'll be done screaming by the time I'm done."

"Okay." Nick had to concede she had a point his family did tend to get a little enthusiastic at the news their numbers were increasing.

He waited until Sara was out of the room before he picked up the phone and dialled the number for his parents' house.

"Stokes residence." One of his sisters answered.

"Hey Carrie."

"Nicky. You don't write, you don't call." She joked.

"I spoke to you last week." He reminded her.

"So how's things? How's Sara?"

"She's fine. Vegas went through a major heat wave now we're in the middle of a storm."

"Nice. We've just got your typical Texas weather here."

"Is Mom there?"

"That's nice little brother, we were just catching up."

"I'm sure I'll talk to you later but I need to talk to Mom first." Nick told her.

"Okay. Let me just find her." Carrie replied.

It took a few seconds.

"Nicholas." His mother came on the line. "It's nice to hear from you."

"Hey Mom, how's Dad?"

"You're father is just fine."

"Good, good."

"Nick...?" She asked.

"Mom, maybe you should sit down." Nick suggested.

"Is something wrong?" She instantly asked.

"No. I have some news and I need you to sit down before I tell you."

"Okay, I'm sitting." Jillian informed him. "What's going on?"

"Okay." He paused. "Sara's pregnant."

Nick held the phone away from his ear as she shrieked.

"I guess I didn't miss the screaming." Sara returned.

"You might want to take a seat this could take a while." Nick suggested.

"You know the storm could unfortunately knock out the phones." Sara pointed out.

"They'll calm down and remember they are on the phone in a while."

"What are you going to want for dinner?" Sara inquired.

"What are you feeling like?" Nick asked.

"There's a lasagne in the freezer which didn't melt. Or we could make pasta salad."

"Either is fine." Nick replied. He lift the receiver to his ear he could still here them all discussing it loudly and excitedly. "Think the storm will let up soon?"

"I'll see what the weather channel says."

Sara found the remote and put the TV on mute while she switched to the weather channel.

"Looks like we have a few more hours of it at least. It will probably be tomorrow before it lets up."

"Great." Nick sighed.

"Nicky."

Nick heard from the phone.

"Stopped screaming then?" Nick smiled.

"Tell us the details."

TBC