Chapter 4

The next day, we started moving things from one apartment to the other. Wally and Kuki were silent most of the day. Hoagie, Nigel, Patton, and Ace were confused by this, seeing as they didn't know about the current situation.

"What's wrong, man?" Hoagie asked Wally as they walked along the street, arms full of boxes.

"Just leave him be, Hoagie," I warned.

I only made it through two trips before I was too tired. I stayed at the new apartment while everyone else finished with the boxes. I ended up falling asleep in our new bed. When I woke up two hours later, Kuki was sitting next to me, crying.

"Abby, I'm just really, really scared and Wally doesn't seem to wanna talk about it much and I just don't want to have a baby," Kuki cried.

I hugged her. "It's gonna be alright, Kuki. You just have to take things one step at a time."

The door opened and Hoagie walked in with a box labeled 'Hoagie and Abs Clothes'. "Sorry," he muttered. He noticed Kuki's tears and gave us a quizzical look.

"Its fine." I climbed off the bed and pulled on a sweatshirt over my tank top. Kuki seemed about to fall asleep, so I left her. The guys were all over, sitting on the new couch watching TV. "Where's Wally?" I asked.

"Who cares?" Ace replied. "He's being so quiet. There's something wrong with him." Nigel and Patton laughed.

I glared at each of them separately before walking into Kuki and Wally's new bedroom. He wasn't there. I went into the next room over, the nursery. He was in there. I shut the door after entering. He glanced up at me and wiped his sleeve across his face to cover up the tears. "Hey, sport, Abby's sorry everyone's acting like such fools."

"Its fine," Wally replied quietly. "They don't know what the crud they're talking about anyway."

"Well, I'm considering giving them a good whoopin' anyway."

"Abs!" Hoagie called.

I looked at Wally. "Go on," he smiled. "You're the best, Abby. Thanks."

I walked out of the nursery. I noticed Patton and Ace were still watching TV, Nigel was opening the fridge, and Hoagie was digging through a box. "We haven't gone to the store yet," I reminded Nigel. I approached Hoagie.

"Kooks wants you," he told me, not looking up from the box.

I walked into our bedroom and found Kuki still curled up on the bed like I left her. "Girl, get off your butt and go talk to Wally. He is just as upset as you and this is something you guys need to go through together. Now, scoot!" Kuki let me pull her up into a standing position. She wrapped her willowy arms around me and left, the usual skip to her step was missing.

I exited the room soon after and found four sets of his trained on me, 3 blue and 1 brown. "What's up with them?" Hoagie asked.

"Yeah," Nigel agreed. "Something is going on there."

"And you know what it is. I can tell," Patton finished.

I opened one of the kitchen boxes and started putting away the plates and such. "No dice, boys. Abby's not saying a thing."

"Not even to me?" Hoagie looked directly into my eyes.

I shook my head; I wasn't going to give in that easily. "Nope."

"Did you promise not to tell us or something?" Ace questioned.

Sighing, I put down the plate I was holding. "No, it's just one of those things you don't tell people unless it's yours to tell!" I walked out of the room and shut myself in the bedroom. Hoagie followed in a few seconds. "Hoagie, I can't tell you. You're just gonna tell Nigel, Patton, and Ace."

"Please, Abs?" He rubbed my back in slow circles.

I caved. "Kuki's pregnant."

He sat down next to me on the bed. "Crap, we were jerks." Hoagie ran his fingers through his auburn hair.

"You got that right, baby." I started folding our clothes and putting them in the dresser. Hoagie was hanging things up in the closet. When we finished putting away the clothes, we left the room. The guys stared at us. I walked into the kitchen and hung up our calendar. "4 weeks until my due date!" I noticed.

"She told you," Patton's voice said. I turned to find him pointing an accusatory finger at Hoagie.

"So…?" I responded.

"So that sucks ass, man!"

Kuki and Wally walked out of the nursery and a hush came over the room. "So," Hoagie started, "celebratory moving-in dinner anyone?"

"B-Dawgs," Patton said, as if only his opinion mattered.

"Whatever," I replied, going back into my bedroom to change. Kuki followed me in. "How'd it go?" I asked after the door had been closed.

"Everything's fantastic," she smiled. She dug around in the drawers, looking for something to decorate.

"That's good. And here," I threw her a a plain white shirt from Hoagie's side of the closet, "this could use something."

"I like the way you think, Abby Gilligan," Kuki giggled. She skipped out of the room and came back moments later with a hot glue gun, feathers, fabric paint, beads, and thread. 10 minutes later the shirt was complete.

"Baby, get in here!" I yelled, opening the door a crack. The guys made immature noises as Hoagie walked towards the room. He looked suspiciously at Kuki and me.

"What'd you two do?" Kuki tossed him the t-shirt. He inspected it for a while before throwing it done on the bed. "Not bad."

"Are you gonna wear it?" Kuki asked, smiling cutely.

"Yeah right," he laughed, leaving the room.

Kuki and I cracked up. "Girl, Abby needs something good to wear," I said, looking down at my sweats.

Kuki tapped her chin thoughtfully. "Oh, I know!" she exclaimed. "I got this really cute shirt the other day and fixed it up. It's baggy so it should fit you!"

We walked over to her room and she dug through a couple boxes. Kuki and Wally hadn't started unpacking yet. She handed me the shirt. It was pink and had beads around the sleeves and collar. It wasn't my usual style, but I put it on anyway.

Hoagie, Wally, Kuki, and I took a cab to the restaurant. Nigel, Patton, and Ace raced us there by foot. We won because there wasn't any traffic. After we ate, the guys wanted to stick around for some beers. Kuki and I got a cab and went home because we couldn't drink.

"Hey, Kuki?" I asked after going to the bathroom and putting on sweats again.

"Yeah?"

"Wanna rent some movies or something? We can sleep on the couch and just relax," I suggested.

Kuki smiled at me. "OMG yes! I'll go get blankets and pillows!" she sang, skipping into the nursery.

A few minutes later, she came back and we made a bed on the couch. The baby was kicking a lot, just like he did most nights. "You are driving me crazy, kid!" I yelled at my belly. I could see little bumps from his feet on my skin.

"Abby, you're so silly sometimes," Kuki giggled, sitting down with popcorn and a Diet coke. We rented A Lot Like Love, The Time Traveler's Wife, and Finding Neverland. Wally and Hoagie cam home at the end of Finding Neverland. It was probably around three in the morning, so Kuki and I were overtired and we couldn't hold back our tears. "I love this movie!" Hoagie crowed, pushing aside my legs to make room for himself. Wally stood awkwardly at the side of the couch and he gave Hoagie a look like he was on drugs.

"Why are you girls crying? It's just a cruddy movie" he asked.

"It's awful," Kuki sobbed. "Those poor boys! Their mom just like dies!"

I nodded my head in agreement. "Gets me everytime," Hoagie murmured.

Wally rolled his blue eyes. "Well, move over already. Patton's wasted. He needs a place to crash." Wally took one of Kuki's ankles and pulled until she hit the floor.

"Hey," she pouted, standing up and rubbing her butt.

"One sec!" I ran over to a closet and pulled out the old rug. I rolled up the new one and Hoagie put it in the corner. Wally helped Patton onto the couch. "Do you need barf bags?" I asked him. He just groaned.

"I'll get them just in case," Kuki decided. She skipped into the kitchen and grabbed three large garbage bags. We laid them out.

"Alright, troupes," Hoagie said. "Let's go to bed." He put an arm around my shoulders and I smiled up at him.

The next morning I woke up at noon and went to shower in our huge bathroom. I changed into the shirt Kuki had decorated the night before that Hoagie wouldn't wear and a pair of pants with the elastic sewn in the top. I had avoided these pants as long as possible, but eventually, it had to happen.

I walked out into the main room. All the guys were watching TV. "Where's Kuki?" I asked, seeing she wasn't with them. She usually didn't sleep this late.

"Grocery store," Wally replied, eyes still glued to the screen.

About fifteen minutes later, Kuki showed up with one bag of groceries. She unlaced her pink high-tops and tugged them off. I looked in the bag. "Girl, what in the world are we gonna do with this much yogurt?"

Kuki laughed. "I don't know. I just felt like yogurt, so I bought some yogurt."

Nigel got up from the couch and joined me and Kuki at the table. "Are you going to tell us what's up?" he asked.

Kuki looked at our friend. We had known him for so long, he deserved to know. She took a long sip from her water bottle and eyed him carefully. "I'm pregnant," Kuki said simply.

Patton and Ace whipped their heads around to us. "No shit?" Ace said.

"I kid you not," Kuki replied.

"Well, shit! We're douche bags. Sorry, Kooks," Patton responded sincerely.

And even though it wasn't particularly funny, Kuki and I looked at each other and dissolved into giggles. Soon, the guys joined in too. We had some pretty good friends in the long run.

A/N: The next chapter of this might be awhile because it isn't written at all yet. And I'm having an awful writer's block issue with one of my other fics, Familiar. Blah! But anyway, hope you enjoyed this! And if anyone has ideas for Kuki and Wally's baby's name, feel free to share it (boy or girl, I haven't decided yet) :D