A/N- Heyyyy. So Lauren's figuring stuff out! It took her forever don't you think? Here's the reaction…
Lauren turned to face Julia and said very, very calmly, "Oh. My. God."
"Lauren." Julia looked at her unsurely, "What's going on?" Lauren had a strange expression on her face somewhere between excitement and anger.
"Julia. Don't try to lie. Is there something you want to tell me?" She said slowly, containing her emotions.
"Its not a big deal."
"Is that why you haven't told us? Because its not big deal?"
"What's going on?" Jaime had been looking at them confused.
"Think about it Jaime. She slept with Dare a few months ago. Throwing up. Not drinking coffee. She didn't have wine at dinner. Sh-"
"Oh my god! Jules! This is so exciting! I can't believe it! A little Darren or Julia! This is so cute!" Jaime interrupted her voice high-pitched from excitement.
"No. Not exciting. Not cute. Not good. Bad. Very bad." Julia said.
"You can't really think that." Lauren said, "This is good Jules. There's a reason this happened."
"Exactly." Jaime interjected.
"I live with three roommates. I barely make any money. I'm not ready for a baby. I'm not seeing any positives at this point."
"Julia." Lauren sat down next to her, "I can think of a good thing."
"What?"
"You are going to have a baby and its scary and new but when have you been afraid of the unknown. You're Julia Albain dammit! You're fearless! Besides you have us and Starkid and Dare-"
"No." Julia interrupted her friend.
"No what?"
"No Darren."
"What? Don't be ridiculous Julia! He's gonna want to be involved." Lauren looked at her for a minute then accused, "You're not going to tell him! He's going to find out. He's sorta living in the same city and working at the same place. It's going to be obvious."
"I'm gonna tell him that I'm pregnant but as far as anyone's concerned this baby is not his."
"What are you talking about? That's crazy!"
"Look. When we finish this production he's going back to LA. He's making it big Lo, I'm not ruining this for him."
"We're talking about Darren. He would like nothing better than to have kids."
"Not now. I'm not going to be able to live with him forever hating me for messing up his life."
"He could never hate you! As far as he's concerned he would probably see this as a life improvement! He would want this!"
"Lauren."
"Okay, fine. Let's say you don't tell him. What are you gonna do when the baby comes out with a full-blown afro, strumming a guitar, and singing Disney?"
"Its not."
"And if it does?"
"It won't."
"Okay. So the baby doesn't look like him. What then? People are going to ask who the father is Julia."
"I'm going to tell them it was a one-night stand."
"They won't believe you. You're too careful."
"Then I'll tell them he doesn't want to be involved."
"You need to tell him Jules." Lauren said.
"The answer is no! I'm not telling him!" Lauren looked at Julia disappointed and was about to say something when Jaime caught her eye, her expression warning her.
"Fine. It's your life!" She decided.
"So," Jaime began, "Have you told Nick and Matt?"
"Do I look like I've told Nick and Matt? Its none of their business anyway."
"It sort of is. This affects the show. They'll have to change characters, storylines, costumes, lighting, the whole shebang."
"Oh." Julia's face showed that she hadn't thought about that before, "I guess I'll tell them tomorrow then." All three girls breathed sighs of relief at the obvious end of the conversation.
"I think we should watch Knocked Up." Lauren smiled.
"Not funny Lo." Julia said despite smiling.
"You have to admit it's a little funny."
"Nope."
"Not even a tad?"
"Not even a smidge."
"Come on! It was a total Glee reference!" Jaime said laughing. Julia's smile disappeared and Jaime realized what she said, "Sorry. I didn't mean-"
"Its okay. I'm going to have to see him. I can't freak out every time I hear the word Glee." The door swung open and Melissa appeared.
"Hey!" She said, "How was your talk?"
"Julia's pregnant." Jaime said quickly before she could be stopped.
"Oh that's co- What?"
"You heard exactly right."
"Okay. Wow. I was not expecting-" She got cut off by Lauren.
"Julia was."
"Did you just make a pregnancy pun?" Jaime asked.
"Yeah."
"Well it was very punny." Julia said and the three girls began laughing.
"You guys seem tired." Melissa observed.
"Wh-What makes you say that?" Lauren said between laughs.
"That honestly wasn't that funny."
"Of course not! It was punny!" Jaime said. Melissa stared at them.
"Come on! Loosen up a bit!" Julia laughed.
"Okay. It was a little hilarious!" Melissa began laughing and the phone rang. She got up and checked caller ID, "Lauren its your damn boyfriend!" She threw the phone across the room to Lauren who answered it, out of breath from laughing too hard.
"H-Hey Joe!"
"Hi. Wanna come over?"
"I'm not getting sexy with you if Bri and Dare are in the next room, listening in like perverts!"
"Foxy foursome!" She heard Jaime yell and the other girls dissolved into giggles and cat-calls.
"Shut up!" Lauren shouted back.
"Huh?" Joe sounded confused.
"Not you. Jaime."
"Is everything okay over there?"
"Yup! We're just laughing. Good times! Some of us are being a little dirty though."
"Can you put me on speaker? I wanna get in on the action."
"This conversation has been dripping with innuendo since I answered the phone."
"And?"
"Fine." She pressed the button for speaker.
"Getting down and dirty over there girls?"
"Shut up Walker!" Jaime answered.
"I think that was enough for today." Lauren took it off speaker, "I'm not coming over. Tell the boys I'll see them tomorrow. Love you. Bye."
"Awww! LoLo's in looooveee!" Jaime sang.
"And we're all going to beeeeedddd!" Lauren stood up, "Good night."
"G'night." Was the resounding response.
A/N- Hope you guys are enjoying it so far! I have another version of this chapter that I might post when the story ends. So, yeah. Review!