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One Year Later
The first year of married life was very good to Mr. and Mrs. Sarantakos. You would rarely see one without the other and Anna never missed a demonstration. She often assisted him as the person 'on the inside' with simpler tricks. Nobody ever doubted that they were an amazing couple. They made each other laugh, comforted each other, and, above all, loved each other.
Anna graduated online classes and was planning to start teaching middle school music classes, until the unexpected happened.
"Anna, are you okay?" Criss asked with his head against the bathroom door. Definitely concerned that his wife had just ran to the bathroom without any notice.
"I must have eaten something bad." She said as opened the door. "I feel like crap." He pitied her. She looked miserable.
"What could you have eaten that was bad? You're a vegetarian!"
"I don't know…but it's either that or…"
"Oh my God, Anna! You're pregnant!" He interrupted gleefully. He looked so happy.
"Holy crap! We're going to be parents!" She quickly came down from her high. "We should get a test just to be sure."
"That would be wise." They drove out to the drug store and got three types of pregnancy test. They all read positive in their various ways. "Well. It looks like we're going to need to go to the doctor!" Criss exclaimed
"Yeah. I need to call people!" Anna was in a state of disbelief. She picked up the iPhone Criss had bought for her and dialed Rachel's number.
"Hello?" Rachel answered the phone.
"Rachel! I'm pregnant!" Anna screamed into her phone.
"That's amazing, Anna! When did you find out?"
"Just now."
"So you called me first?"
"No." Anna lied. Rachel was going to bring them up.
"Who did you call first, then?" She asked in her classic 'I don't believe you' tone that she had used on her in middle school when Anna had lied about not eating lunch.
"…People." Anna was a bad liar. Criss gave her a look of pre-emptive sympathy.
"Uh huh. Who?" Now there was no way out. She had to give it up.
"Okay. You're the first."
"Anna, my dear, you really have to talk to your parents one of these days."
"Hey. They were the ones that broke off communications. Not me."
"But, you can reconnect."
"It really doesn't matter." Anna was surprised by how far the conversation had strayed from the baby growing in her stomach.
"I'm not going to fight you, my dear. You aren't thirteen anymore. I love you, okay? After that kid of yours is born you could take your pretty little self and your pretty little family back home to good, old Maryland so we could hang out. You could come to school with me. Okay, hon? Call me every week! Keep me in the loop! Congratulations!"
"Okay. I love you, Rachel. Bye!"
"Bye, Anna. Call often!" They both hung up.
"Interesting…" Criss said. He had been listening in onto the conversation while calling the production office to spread the good news.
"She wants me to talk to my parents." Anna groaned.
"I know." Criss said.
"And my hormones are going like crazy. Where are we gonna put this kid, anyway? It can't sleep in our room! Heaven forbid what it would see in there! And what about money?"
"Anna, you know we have plenty of that."
"Yes, until we have a baby that needs to eat and sleep and be played with. I'm gonna have to stay up here all day alone with the baby while you're off getting chewed by wood chippers. Criss, it's too much. I can't do it." The breakdown had officially started.
"Shhh, Anna. It's okay. We'll deal with everything as it comes." Criss had his arm around her as tears started to roll down her cheeks. It hurt him very much to see her so distraught.