Finally it was Christmas break, and the last week of it. The holidays were a nightmare, her first without her family. She didn't get a phone call or a card. Nikki would work evening shift, and the rest of the time she would stay in her room. She could never sleep anymore, between Jonesy's snoring and her pregnancy induced insomnia she was lucky if she could get three hours a night. She was reduced to sleeping during lunch period. Still, none of the nerds say anything, probably too scared. Also, she was still throwing up, although it wasn't near as much. "I'm fifteen weeks and I'm STILL yaking. Does it ever get better?" she would complain to Emma, her go to girl for real pregnancy related things, not whatever crap Jonesy would read in What to Expect When You're Expecting, or whatever his pregnancy book du jour is. She's lost fifteen pounds since she's been pregnant due to the throwing up, and her decreased appetite, but her midwife said it was okay, the time to gain weight was about now, the 1st trimester isn't so important for weight gain, and the baby gets what it needs no matter what, and she's been taking her prenatal vitamins. Life could not be more complicated. Jonesy tried very hard, but he couldn't understand what Nikki was going through, how stressful it was on her body and life. She finally got it through to Jonesy that she needed as much alone time as possible after the hockey game with Wyatt. This whole break he's stayed out of her hair, spending his days at the mall. When Jen wasn't at work she would spend girl time with her mom and Nikki.

Nikki woke up from the living room couch from Robbie jumping on it "ROBBIE!" she screamed, "YOU'RE GONNA HURT THE BABY!"

Jonesy came running out of the kitchen "WHAT ARE YOU DOING! Nikki what did he do?" Nikki could hear the worry dripping from his breath. She shuddered.

"Oh, he was jumping on the couch and woke me up, I was overreacting." Nikki blushed and rolled over onto her back. "I'm sorry Robbie." Robbie just looked at her like a deer caught in headlights, until running up the stairs when Jonesy came for him with a wooden spoon. "I'm sorry Jonesy, I didn't mean to scare you. I didn't realize you were even home."

"I'm doing what you asked of me, giving you some time. I read in Frankly Pregnant that some women get repulsed by their partners when they become pregnant and I don't want you to be too repulsed by me." He smiled coyly.

Nikki smiled and him and nodded. "I suppose that sounds about right. Thanks for being so understanding, it's a tough time for me. With my parents and…"

"It's okay Nikki, you don't have to explain, I read all about it in Breathe: A Guy's Guide to Pregnancy." Nikki rolled her eyes.

"Right. Well since I'm up and it's…." she glanced over at the digital clock "…4:15 pm… heh..' she chuckled "guess I've been sleeping a long time."

"Yeah… you passed out at 5am watching "Aliens Attack 4: Revenge of the Earthlings." Jonesy leaned down and kissed her on the cheek "I'm glad you finally got some sleep."

"With your snoring it's a wonder I can sleep in bed at all! I'm sleeping on the couch from now on!"

"I do not snore!" Jonesy pouted and crossed his arms.

"What, do you record yourself?" Nikki mused, ruffling his hair. "Let's watch a movie, I'm up you're up and we're both here." Nikki took him by the hand and led him upstairs. "I'm down for 'When Larry met Hallie,' I'm in a romantic sappy kind of mood." Nikki grinned, and put the DVD in the player. She sat with her back against the bed and pulled him down to her. "Jonesy…" she sighed elated, and cuddled up next to him. Five minutes into the movie he was snoring. "Ugh…." Nikki slapped her forehead and slipped out from under his arm, putting her chin on her arms apparently pissed off. "Fuckin Jonesy" she thought "I hardly see him anymore and he falls asleep on me." Nikki got on the computer in the room and signed onto AIM, getting a plethora of chat boxes.

Dude Von Dudenstein: What's up bra! When do we find out if we're getting a little dude or dudette in the crew?

NikkiWong213: February 14th. Perfect timing, right?

Dude Von Dudenstein: Sweeeeeeeet…

So Totally Caitlin: NIKKI!!! LONG TIME NO TALK HOW ARE UUUUU!!!!!

NikkiWong213: wake me up when it's over. Cant I just go into a coma until then?

So Totally Caitlin: NIKKIIIIIII! OMG! don't say that!

NikkiWong213: You try being pregnant. It bites.

So Totally Caitlin: I'm sorry Nikki. At least Jonesy seems excited!

NikkiWong213: He does?

So Totally Caitlin: YA!! Hes worried about u to. Wyatt sed hes seen u sleeping in calculus class at lunch… yikes…

NikkiWong213: Yeah… like I said, it bites.

So Totally Caitlin: Well dun worry! U will be fine!

NikkiWong213: Thanks… I hope so too.

GuitarMan92: Hey Nikki!

NikkiWong 213: Hey Wyatt.

GuitarMan92: Been a rough couple of months, huh?

NikkiWong213: You could say that.

GuitarMan92: How are you and Jonesy?

NikkiWong213: He's giving me 'space,' something he read about in one of the millions of pregnancy books he's been reading. Every little thing and he's like 'Oh I read about that in this book! It's because of blah blah blah.' It would be cute if I didn't hear it every five minutes we're together.

GuitarMan92: He's excited, nothing wrong with that.

NikkiWong213: Well whatever he has, I hope I catch it soon.

GuitarMan92: I'm sorry Nikki, if you ever need to talk to someone not tooooo closely related to the pregnancy, you know where to come

NikkiWong213: Thanks Wyatt, means a lot

JediMastrDarth: Congratulations Nikki!

NikkiWong213: Hey…. Thanks…

JediMastrDarth: The calculus lunch crew congratulate you too, we'd tell you in person but Mr. Kim told us to leave you alone.

NikkiWong213: Thank you Darth, it means a lot

JediMastrDarth: No problem Nikki!

Nikki shut down the computer and took a deep breath. "Only 25 more weeks… ughhhh," she laid down on the bed and watched the rest of the movie while Jonesy slept on the floor.

Jonesy could not sit still in his Biology class. He could feel the eyes burning a hole in his head. He looked around, but no one seemed to be looking at him directly.

"Mr. Garcia." Mrs. Randal glared, "Do you care to tell us what the parts of the cell are?"

"The nucleus, the robosomes, the Golgi somethings, motorchondria, lysodroids…" he muttered.

"That's enough Mr. Garcia. You were close I will give you that…" He sunk in his chair and waited for the bell to ring for lunch.

"There's the dude whose having a baby with that weird chick."

"Poor sap got suckered into having a baby."

"I heard they don't even talk anymore and that she hates him. I mean, I haven't seen them together in a long time." Jonesy wanted to scream, and she's not even showing yet. The bigger she gets the worse it will get. Then he heard the worst one yet…

"The Chrissy told me that Nikki told her and Kristen and Kirsten at work that Jonesy tricked her into getting pregnant so that she wouldn't be able to leave him ever, I guess there was talk that she had a crush on some college dude at Banting…" Jonesy turned around and glared at the source, Blair Tchaikovsky.

"Did I say that too loud?" She giggled, and her friends joined her. Jonesy took off running toward Nikki's calculus class.

"Nikki!" He panicked, sliding and almost slipping into the classroom. The nerds looked at him like he was the crazy one. Nikki picked her head off the desk, still half asleep, drool on her chin.

"Jonesy…" she yawned, "What are you doing here? Brushing up on your math skills?" The nerds snickered.

"Nikki can I talk to you… outside?" he glared at the nerds as they watched them leave.

"People are talking Nikki!" Jonesy waved his arms wildly and had a panicked look on his face.

"Um… yeah? Welcome to my world, your point?" Nikki rolled her eyes and then glared at Tricia, who was walking very slowly by until she stopped at a locker, obviously ear hustling.

"We need to be seen together Nikki. Can you at least pretend you're happy, for me? People are saying that you hate me, and that you told the clones that I got you pregnant on purpose!" He heard Nikki say a swear word under her breath "What?"

"I did say that, but I was joking. Stupid clones, I forgot they don't get sarcasm."

"Did you say you liked a college dude at Banting?"

"No… that was made up." Nikki still glared at Tricia, who hadn't even touched the lock on the locker. "Tricia you can stop ear hustling, we know that isn't your locker. Jonesy and I are still together, I don't hate him, and he didn't get me pregnant on purpose. So you can leave now…."

Jonesy turned around. "Yeah Tricia, take this with your picture phone." He reached down and gave Nikki a long and passionate kiss, which she returned. Tricia rolled her eyes and continued walking. "See Nikki? Was that so hard?"

"No, it's just I like to sleep in here. The nerds talk about War Star and play with Magick cards and they leave me alone. I would so much rather be in there than in the stupid lunch hall getting talked about. I don't know how you do it."

"I never listened until today. Blair said…"

"Blair is a gossip. She's as bad as Tricia and Heather. Jonesy we're going to be talked about, I'm the Juno of high school. It's the years biggest scandal. The best thing you can do is not care. Come here Jonesy." She took him in her arms and snuggled her head in his chest. "Come on, we'll go to the mess hall together."

"Okay Clones, why did you add onto my joke? As much as I wish there was a college man from Banting knocking my door down, Jonesy is going through enough."

"What are you talking about Nikki?" Kirsten asked

"Yeah, all we did was say that you said Jonesy admitted to getting you pregnant on purpose." Kristen chimed in

"I was being sarcastic. He didn't admit that, and I'm sure he didn't intentionally get me pregnant. I was on the patch. What did he do, replace my patch with a nicotine patch?" Nikki laughed. "No. I was just unlucky."

"Nikki don't say that! A baby is a blessing and a miracle!" Kirsten and Kristen squealed.

"Riiiight. Just go do what you guys do and leave me alone." Nikki laid her head down on the counter and sighed.

"Eat eat eat!" Jonesy playfully yelled at Nikki at the dinner table. "The midwife said that you need to start gaining weight!" He started fitting big forkfuls of mashed potatoes in her mouth.

"JONESY!" Nikki whined with her mouth full, "You do understand I'm not REALLY eating for two right?" Her cheeks were stuffed, she looked like a chipmunk. Robbie snapped a picture with his camera phone. "I have been eating!"

"She's right Jonesy she has been. Leave her alone." Emma winked at Nikki while Jonesy pouted.

"So Nikki what is in exactly two weeks?" Jonesy questioned, beaming from ear to ear.

"Um finals?" Nikki looked at Jonesy, puzzled.

"No! February 14th is the day we get to see if we're having a hot dog or a hamburger!"

"YEY!" Jen cheered "I totally forgot guys! I'm so excited!"

"How exciting." Emma smiled. Nikki just kept stuffing her face, keeping quiet. "Nikki, do you want a hot dog or a hamburger?"

"I don't care. I guess a hot dog, because a hamburger can get pregnant at 16 and disgrace her family!"

"Nikki…" Emma cooed. "Things happen. I'm sorry your parents aren't here for you right now but once the baby is out it's all love from there. We're all here for you, and we love you." Emma walked over to her and hugged her, soothing out her hair. Jonesy put his hand over Nikki's.

"It's just, I only had four rules: don't drink, don't smoke, get good grades, and whatever else you do, DON'T GET PREGNANT!" Nikki mimicked the last part in her mom's voice.

Emma kept on hugging her. "It's okay baby… it's okay. You're so mature I keep forgetting that you're only 16. It will be okay I promise."

Nikki kept on stuffing her face, trying not to talk or cry. "Why did no one ask me!" Jonesy cracked.

"And do you want a hot dog or a hamburger, Jonesy?" Jen obliged sarcastically.

"I don't care as long as it's healthy." Jonesy recited proudly. Everyone rolled their eyes.

After dinner was over, Nikki, Jonesy and Jen went up to Jonesy's room and talked. Nikki laid down and yawned, Jonesy took a seat by the computer and Jen sat on the ground. For awhile no one said much of anything, but it wasn't awkward. Jen finally broke the silence, something about the weather and the upcoming weekend, Nikki wasn't paying attention.

"Oh my God Jonesy come here!" she jabbered excitedly. Jonesy rolled his chair over to her. "Here," she took his hand and placed it on her stomach, "do you feel that?"

"No feel what?" Jonesy pressed harder

"The baby is moving! You don't feel it! It feels like muscle spasms…"

"NO!" Jonesy pouted, pressing even harder.

"Oh…. Well it stopped. Ouch Jonesy be gentle!"

Jonesy pouted and loosened up but didn't take his hand off, in fear it would start again. Jen ran over and placed her hands on Nikki's stomach.

"Did it just move? Jen squealed

"Yeah I think it moved its head…"

"I FELT IT! IN YOUR FACE JONESY!"

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhh!" Jonesy moaned, "Get out Jen!" he got up and shoved her out. "I'm jealous. It's not her baby it's mine!"

"As soon as you took your hand off the baby started moving again" Nikki laughed "I think it hates you.

Jonesy put his hands back on her stomach and the baby immediately stopped. It was playing games with daddy. "Great my baby loves everyone but me." he pouted. Nikki put a hand on his cheek and leaned up to kiss him.

"Just means it loves you the most."