"Uh, I'm so happy I don't have to go to school today." Teddy said, reaching in the cabinet to take her prenatal vitamins. "Yesterday was the last day and now I can just relax and enjoy summer."
"You should try to enjoy your last summer as a teen as much as possible since Gemma will be born in a month and she'll be your life for now on." Amy said.
"I'm still calling it." Gabe said. "Teddy is going to be a bad mom."
"I'm going to be a great mom!" Teddy shot back.
Gabe laughed. "I'll believe it when I see it."
"Well at least my last day of school was yesterday, unlike you. You still have to go, which means I don't have to see you all day."
"Yeah, twelve is all day."
"Shut up, I'm eight months pregnant. Don't irritate me."
"Teddy, are you working at your dad's office today?" Amy asked.
"No and thank god! He finally got that Beau guy trained. Mom, you just don't understand how boring it was!"
"Why would you even work for dad?" Gabe asked.
"For the extra money. Gabe, he was paying me eight an hour everyday for a couple of weeks. Do the math." Teddy grabbed a yogurt from the fridge and headed down to the basement where she ate and watched a little TV.
At noon Teddy went over to Spencer's house because they needed to talk about Gemma and how co-parenting will work, and such like that. She thought it was best to get that sorted out before Gemma is born instead of after.
"Would you kids like a snack?" Spencer's mother, Linda asked.
"Mom, can you go?" Spencer asked. "We're fine."
"Teddy?"
"No thank you." Teddy smiled. Linda nodded and left. "So let's just get into it. Obviously Gemma will majority live with me. But I think for now we shouldn't have scheduled days you see, or have her, arranged."
"What do you mean?" Spencer asked.
"I'll let you see her whenever you want, same with your family, for the first year or so. Maybe even until we finish college and have our lives straighten out because lets face it, you're probably going to end up in Boston like you always planned, and for some reason, I'm still hoping to get into Yale, even though it'll probably be impossible for me to go if I got in."
"Maybe I'll stay in Denver. There's a school in Denver."
"But it's not as great as Boston and even though we're not together, I still want the best for you, especially when a child is in the mix of it now."
"Do you know what colleges you're applying to, if any?" He asked.
Teddy nodded. "Yeah... NYU, Yale, and Brown. Yale and NYU are my top choices but I'll probably just end up here and do community and then switch later on. I may even just have to settle for Denver U."
"You shouldn't have to."
She shrugged. "It's just how it goes sometimes. I won't be able to afford child care and an apartment... Can I ask you something? Why did you want me to get an abortion when I first told you?"
Spencer didn't immediately answer. "Honestly Teddy, I did't want a baby, still don't, just because how complicated she's making things for us. We have to rethink our future and plus, we're too young. We're just seventeen."
"I know, Spencer. I agree one hundred percent with all you said, but abortion wasn't going to be an option for me. Do you realize you would be killing a human? The baby already has a soul at just a couple of weeks. How could you do that? And then I would always feel guilty and wonder what if I didn't? And maybe it wasn't our idealist plan to be in each other's lives for the next eighteen years, but we could be stuck with someone much worse. So let's just make the best out of this situation and just love Gemma."
"Speaking of Gemma... I feel like I should get a say on what we're naming her." Spencer said.
Teddy laughed. "You're funny. No. I like Gemma Eliana."
"Hey, I like Gemma too. It's cool. But I should be given the choice to pick the middle name of our daughter since you're obviously set on the first name."
"Well tell me what you have in mind then. And maybe, just maybe, if I like it enough, I'll change my mind."
"Giselle?" He suggested. "Gemma Giselle?"
"I like Giselle but that's too many G's in her name. No. Give me another."
"Change the spelling of Gemma to J then. Jemma Giselle."
"I never though of an alternate spelling for Gemma." Teddy took her phone out and typed out Jemma to see if she liked the look and feel of that name more than Gemma.
"What do you think?" Spencer asked.
"I don't know, Spencer. I like both." Teddy thought it over for a minute. "You know, I like Gemma more, so unless you have another name suggestion that you like, we're keeping my original plan with Eliana."
"Okay. Um... How about Harper? Gemma Harper?"
"Eh..." Teddy shook her head. "I don't like the sound of it. With Gemma Eliana, it just has a ring to it."
"Okay. One more name and if you don't like it, then I'll be done."
"Okay." Teddy nodded.
"Arista?"
"Oh. I like that name." She smiled. "It sounds pretty. Gemma Arista Duncan."
"Wait, Duncan? She's not having my last name?"
"No. Why would she?"
"Because I'm her dad, and it's traditional the child get's the dad's last name."
"Well when I decided on her name you were being an ass to me."
"Well I think it should be at least hyphened." He said.
Teddy breathed out and crossed her arms over her eight month baby bump, because she knew he was right. It should at least be hyphened. "Fine. Gemma Arista Duncan-Walsh. Are you happy now?"
"So is Arista her middle name then?" Spencer asked.
"Yes... I like it." Teddy said in a sort of upset tone, as if she was mad she liked that name. "Gemma Arista Duncan-Walsh."
"Gemma Arista Duncan-Walsh." Spencer repeated.
I hope you liked this chapter and the change in the name! I thought Spencer should have a say on at least the middle name of Gemma, now that he's going to be in her life and all...
Thanks for reading and see ya in the next chapter ;D
