This is finally happening. I'm pregnant! I've been dreaming of this since I was thirteen. It's only been three days.

At the gas station, I bought a pregnancy test. When we got home, I took it and it had a plus sign. The day after that, I took four more. All of them said plus signs.

I'm thirty-seven and I'm finally going to have a baby. An actual baby. Despite the strange cravings, vomiting, and moody behaviors, I've never been happier.

There was just one little problem: how am I going to tell my family that I'm pregnant? I want to tell them, but I don't know how to bring it up. Should I not tell them? Well I need to. They're going to notice when I start showing.

Now that I'm pregnant that means…no alcohol…no sushi…no little redheaded friend. These nine months better go by fast and this kid will be worth it. I'm gonna be fat for awhile so no tanktops, shorts, or tube tops when I start showing which will probably be in like eight months because I'm tall and tall women hardly show.

Okay I'm not that tall. When I was in kindergarten, I was really tall only because I peeked early. But I'm not as short as Trish.

Plus, even though I'll be pregnant, I'll still be the neighborhood Hot Mom. You should've seen on Valentines Day when my secret admirers were Jase's friends. If anybody takes my spot as neighborhood Hot Mom, I will go all Call of Duty: Ghosts on their asses. Sorry, it's the hormones.

There has to be a way where I can tell everybody. But what is it?

In the morning, Austin left for work and I dropped the kids off at school. I headed to work where Rosie was fixing one of the guitars.

"Morning, Alls," she said. "Is your stomach fine?"

"Yep," I hesitated. "I feel better. By the way, tonight I want y'all to come over for dinner. My treat."

"Really? Why?"

"Just some important news I need to share with all of y'all."

"Alright, alright. This better be good."

Tonight's dinner should help. Everybody will be laughing and talking, then I'll announce my unplanned pregnancy.

Unplanned? I just realized that this pregnancy was unplanned. What am I going to do? Now I'll have four kids and I-I have to work. Who's gonna take care of the baby while I'm working? How will the kids feel about this? What about Austin?

After returning home, I got out the baby pictures of the kids. There was when we first got Krishna from Mumbai. There was when Leighton didn't have that much teeth and there's Jase in soccer. Austin walked by and said, "Hey, darlin'. Whacha looking at?"

"Pictures of the kids from back then," I answered. "Look, there's us at the lake."

"Yep, I see me drunk as hell skinny dipping next to that elderly couple."

"There's Leighton on her eighth birthday…and there's Krishna learning how to walk. I hate that they are so grown up now."

"Me too, love. I'm gonna miss them when they're gone. It'll be you and me…all old and wrinkled up like my old wallet."

I know Austin and I are gonna grow old together. When we're eighty something years-old, Austin will probably be rolling fast on a wheelchair, popping his pills from a Pez dispenser, and using a sword from Comic Con with a tennis ball at the bottom making it his crane.

"It makes me wanna have another one." I blurted out.

"Me too…but I'm done with kids already."

"W-What?"

"Ally, I'm too old for kids. I'm thirty-nine and another kid just might set me off. If anybody's gonna be crawling on the floor with a bottle in their mouth…it's gonna be me."

"So no more kids. Just our three wonderful kids."

"Well two wonderful kids…and Jase."

Austin doesn't want another kid? No, this can't be happening. What am I going to do? It needs to go exactly as I plan—I mean unplanned. I didn't expect this pregnancy.

You know what? Maybe he was just joking. Austin loves kids no matter what.

Everybody was already here. They were each sitting in the living room. I took a deep breath in and walked out in front of them.

"Hey, guys," I said aloud. "So glad you can make it."

"Ally, we've been here for half an hour," said Rosie. "You didn't even offer us a pretzel or a cold bottle of beer."

"I just need to tell you guys something," I said.

"Are you dying?" asked Trish.

"No."

"You got cancer?"

"No, let me—"

"If no one's dying, then why am I even here? If it's that important, someone should be dying."

"No one is dying!"

"Why are we here?!"

"A baby is coming!"

"Who's baby?!"

"My baby!"

The room grew silent. Everybody looked at me. No one said anything until Jase said, "You two had sex?"

Krishna then gave him a slap in the back of the head. Austin stood up and stuttered, "Ally…are you…"

"I'm pregnant." I smiled.

All of a sudden, he dropped to the floor. I can't believe it. He didn't want another kid!

"I knew it!" I exclaimed. "He didn't want another one! I'm such an idiot!"

I took off in the car in a flash. My eyes were watery a lot that I didn't know where I was going. Finally, I stopped at the Jean Ross Park.

I got out and sat on the bench next to the strange big Oak tree. I remember this bench. Austin and I had our first kiss. At that moment, I realized that he was my soulmate, my life partner. He and I go together like hair and hairspray.

"Ally," said a voice. I turned to my right and there he was: Austin.

"Austin," I breathed.

"Is it true?"

"Yes, it is. I took a lot of pregnancy tests and they had plus signs. I haven't had my period…so yes, I am. Your fainting kinda ruined the announcement and now I don't think that you even wanted our kid."

"No, no, no, baby, don't think that. It's just that…it surprised me. I'm pretty that you were happy—"

"Happy? I was terrified. I didn't know how we were going to make it work. I mean there's work, money, schedule, and the kids. I didn't want any of them to feel unloved because we're spending so much time with the baby."

"Darlin', we love the kids as much as this new baby. Our baby will never get in between the love of our kids. We will never love than any less than each other."

"I know. Are you happy about him or her?"

"Of course I am. You wanna know what happened at home?"

"What?"

"All of them were very happy. The kids said that they can't wait for their new baby brother or sister."

"None of us made them.…but they are still just like the both of us."

"And so will this one." He laid his hand on my stomach.

Next chapter Ally will be 13 weeks pregnant so that she would start showing.