Hello all! Hope you don't mind the short break we took, anyways; you're in for some surprises this chapter!

You're Baby in Week 20 of Pregnancy

Curious about whether that melon-sized belly contains a boy or a girl? Now's your chance to take a peek! Your second trimester ultrasound, scheduled for anytime between 18 and 22 weeks, gives your practitioner a chance to see how things are going in there. And, wow, are they going! If you're having a girl, her uterus is now fully formed and her ovaries are holding about seven million primitive eggs. If you're having a boy, his testicles have begun their descent from the abdomen to their ultimate destination — the scrotum. And while your baby is definitely getting bigger (weighing in at about ten ounces and measuring six and a half inches), there's still plenty of growing room in there, which allows him to twist and turn (and allows you to feel his acrobatics!).

That's exactly what Noah and Marina were doing that day as they sat in the waiting room. Noah had had her gender appointment earlier, two boys, two trouble making rambunctious boys. They certainly inherited their father's genes. Between those two, Noah was constantly being kicked, sometimes on her bladder, rib cage, and of course her stomach, where she preferred it. With those two boys constantly using her bladed for a trampoline she was running to the bathroom almost every hour.

"Marina," Athena said, sticking her head out of the ultrasound room and smiling upon Marina who carefully got up. She had to resort to wearing baggy clothes in the hot July days.

The two girls walked in, Buddy couldn't make it because he was teaching at the University. Buddy was a professor at Gallagher University and taught classes in Physics, Earth & Space Science, and Engineering.

Marina got changed into the hospital gown and laid down on the bed and pulled the gown over her stomach as Athena readied the machine.

"Why does it have to be cold?" Marina asked, referring to the cold gel.

"It just reacts that way towards contact with skin." Athena replied as she moved the wand around her stomach. "Now let's see if you're right when you say it's a boy." She mused as she moved around the baby who was moving everywhere. "But we won't know unless he stays still." She said, as the girls chuckled as the wand came closer to the baby and he moved away.

"He sure is a stubborn little fellah." Noah said watching the baby move while laughing.

"AH-HA! GOT YA!" Athena shouted making both girls slightly jump.

"Congrats, you were right, it's a boy!" Athena said, smiling.

"Told you so, it's a gift." Marina said proudly.

"Yes, you did." Noah said, chuckling.

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RING RING RING RING RING RING RING The phone went off in the middle of the night.

"Uh, Buddy can you get that please?" Noah said, rolling over as her husband reached over and grabbed the phone.

"Hello?" he asked into the mouth piece.

"Buddy, its Marina." He heard the girl say. His eyes flew wide open.

"Marina, what's wrong?" He asked, at the sound of Marina's name, Noah shot up.

"What's wrong?" She asked as Buddy held up a finger.

"They f-f-found o-out ab-b-bout m-my pregnancy." She said, crying.

"What…how?"

"My m-mom walked I-in w-when I w-was l-looking to s-see how big I have gotten."

"Are you okay?" Buddy asked worriedly.

"N-no, I need you to pick me up, th-they kicked me out of the house." Marina said, crying again.

"Okay, don't worry Marina; I will be there in five minutes, just hold on, okay?" Buddy said as he pulled on a pair of jeans over his boxers, he didn't have time to change out of the white T he wore to bed.

"Okay, thanks." Marina said before she was told to hang up the phone by a man's voice.

"Stay here Noah; I'll be back in about 15 minutes." He said, giving her a quick kiss on the lips and running out of the door and into his yellow Ford Charger and driving down the street. He knew where Marina lived and he made it there just less than five minutes.

He got out of his car and knocked on the door.

A man with brown hair and green eyes opened the door and looked at him gruffly, "Who are you?" He asked, peering at Buddy with stony eyes.

"I'm here for Marina, she called me." He answered truthfully.

"So you're the punk her knocked her up! You look well over 18, I'll make sure you're sued for this!" he shouted.

"What! No, you have it all wrong, my wife and I are adopting Marina's son, tell you the truth I have no idea who got Marina pregnant and I'm only twenty-seven.

"You got some nerve," He said, "This isn't your business, you should of came and told my wife and I our daughter was pregnant so she could have an abortion and not ruin her life." Buddy wondered silently if the man was bi-polar.

"Buddy!" Marina shouted as she walked towards the door to see what all the shouting was about. Her eyes were puffy and red from where she was crying.

"Marina, you have all your stuff?" Buddy asked as she approached him.

"Yea, everything I could fit in a suitcase in five minutes." She said sadly, looking next to her towards the stairs where she un-doubtfully left more of her prized belongings.

"Is there anything you want me to grab for you?" Buddy asked.

"You are not stepping foot into this house." The man replied, glaring at Buddy.

"Please dad, I just want him to help me grab one thing and then we'll be gone." Marina pleaded.

"Well you can get it yourself and have him carry it when it's out of this house." Her father replied menacingly

"But it's too heavy for me, it may hurt him." Marina defended, unconsciously wrapping her arms around her belly.

"Then maybe you should of thought of that before you got yourself knocked up." Her father replied.

"Marina," another male voice asked, he sounded tired and agitated.

Marina walked out of view towards whoever it was; Buddy couldn't help but think that he knew that voice somewhere but he couldn't place it.

"What do you want?" The boy asked again.

"My guitar, it's my life and soul, can you please get it for me?" she asked and the sound of footsteps on the stairs could be heard and footfalls again a few minutes later.

"Here you go," He said, handing it over to her.

"Thanks, Marky." She replied and quickly retreated towards the door and handed Buddy a blue guitar case with picture of celebs on it."

Buddy put the strap around him as Marina's father stood out of the way so she could pass.

Buddy carefully put her guitar in the backseat and took the bag from her and placed it on the floor.

"Let's go home, Marina." Buddy said, as they climbed into the car and drove off.

Mark was watching his little sister leave the house. He watched as the man turned around to glare at his father that it was then that he knew he recognized the voice. "Professor Utsukushii." Mark said under his breath.

"What did you say Markus?" His father asked him.

"Nothing father, nothing at all." He quickly replied, if his father knew that he knew the man then he'd surely go down to the University to talk to him.

"That's what I thought." His father replied, stalking off.

Damn he thought, I had a question on today's homework.

KN: Morgan! *Yells over the applause trying to find Morgan*

MN: You called? *Walks up behind Kim making her jump*

KN: You scared me; anyways do you have anything to say?

MN: This chapter was totally awesome to write! I had a blast writing it! I loved the part where you said how Marina's mom found out!

KN: Thank you! That was the only thing that I thought was missing I mean how did they find out!

MN: I was hoping you'd figure that out, my creativity ran dry, not to mention I had a huge brain fart while updating the Quads wikia page…sigh….there was something I wanted to ask, I can't remember….

KN: Haha

MN: It's not funny Kim! *Bangs head against wall*

KN: oh sorry! Haha

MN: ,^_^,

KN: what?

MN: *sigh* hold on *sends pic of face I cannot describe…* it means this

KN: Ohhhhhhhh

MN: Exactly! WELL WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? REVIEW!

KN: Yuppers! Review! :D