A/N: This chapter is shorter than the others but I feel like with the last few chapters I've been forcing them a bit, so that they reach at least a thousand words, and I don't know why I was doing that. However, if you feel it was too short, let me know and I'll go back to longer chapters. Enjoy! Don't forget to review, it makes my whole day when I get the email that says someone reviewed.

'This is ridiculous! If we can't even agree on this, how are we going to parent this kid for eighteen years?!' Jade threw her hands up.

Beck sighed, checking his rearview mirror as he merged onto the freeway. They'd been having this argument on and off since they'd gotten the appointment a little over a week ago. Now, they were driving to the clinic and they still hadn't come to an agreement. 'I want it to be a surprise, I don't see why we have to know now.' He glanced at Jade when she huffed in response.

'We've been over this, everything is easier if we know. We know what we have to buy, we know how to decorate the nursery, the list goes on.'

'You literally just ran out of things to put on the list. Besides, we buy onesies, and we decorate the nursery with neutral colours – you hate pink anyway. And you think the idea of colour-coding babies is ridiculous!'

'Cat and your mother are insisting on a baby shower when we get back to LA, people are gonna wanna know what to buy. And I'm not saying that we should buy everything pink or blue, I just think we should know. If nothing else, it narrows down the list of names.'

'We've already narrowed down the list of names. My mom always said that you can have a name picked out for months and if it doesn't suit the baby when they're born, it doesn't suit them.'

'They're babies, they're not gonna suit any name, they're wrinkly and pink, and all they do is scream.'

Beck smiled. 'Don't act like you're not excited to see them.'

'And that's another thing! You saying 'them' just keeps making me panic about having twins.'

Beck pulled into the parking lot outside the clinic ten minutes before their appointment. 'Okay, we need to make up our minds,' he stated, as he cut the engine. 'Why don't I leave the room while the midwife tells you?' he suggested.

'No. absolutely not. There's no way I could keep it a secret for five months, and we have a deal.' They'd made the deal years ago, after they'd gotten back together, that there would be no secrets between them ever.

'We could make an exception for this.'

'No. We can't start making exceptions for things, then it'll spiral.' Jade sighed. 'Okay, how about this? We find out for this one, since it's our first, and then next time we'll leave it as a surprise.'

Beck checked the clock on the dashboard, they had six minutes. They really ought to go inside and tell reception they were there. This was the best compromise they were going to get in that amount of time. And it was a promise that there would be at least one more kid. He'd have to remind her of that when she was in labour, he was sure she'd appreciate it.

Fifteen minutes later, Jade was laid out on the reclined doctor's chair with cold gel spread across her bump. The doctor was moving the scanner across her abdomen. On the screen, their baby was in blurry black and white, but it was unmistakably there. Jade sniffled, and tore her eyes away from the screen to look at her husband, whom she was relieved to notice was not managing to hold his tears in like she was. He squeezed her hand when he saw she was looking at him. 'That's our baby,' he said. 'That's inside you. An actual baby.' He had known, of course, but he couldn't explain how much different it was to see actual proof. 'And you can relax, because it's not twins.' They both laughed weakly.

'Would you like to know the sex of your baby?' the doctor asked.

Jade looked at Beck for confirmation. He nodded his head.

'Congratulations, Mr and Mrs Oliver, you're going to have a daughter.'

A little girl. He had always wanted a little girl, with his hair and Jade's beautiful eyes. They were going to have a little girl. The tears finally spilled out of Jade's eyes.