"Hi, I need to make an appointment with Dr. Ibarra." Stephanie sat on her couch on the phone, "well I've taken two pregnancy tests, and they both came up positive." She was nervous, at first, the thought of maybe being pregnant was a little scary, but tangible, the scary feeling got worse as she sat on the phone, "please, as soon as possible."

She got off the phone with the nurse with an appointment in two days. She laid down across the couch and closed her eyes, tears falling back past her ears and into her hair. The next thing she knew, she woke up, feeling nauseous. She sat up and held her stomach. The more she thought about it, the worse the feeling got, then she ran to her bathroom to throw up, "oh my God." She moaned as she leaned over the toilet.

"Baby, I got off work today." She heard the front door open and close. She slammed the door and turned the shower on to make it seem like she was doing something. She flushed the toilet, stripped herself of her clothes and jumped in the shower, "babe?" He knocked on the door.

"Oh, hey, what's up?" She pushed the glass door out of the way and smiled at him, "when did you get here?"

"Like, a minute or two ago." He smiled, "you have anywhere to go today?" He leaned on the bathroom counter, looking her up and down, "I don't have anywhere to be."

"What are you saying? Too bad it looks like you already took a shower. If you didn't, maybe I would have invited you in, with me."

"What? A guy can't take two showers in one day? Especially one with someone else?" He unbuttoned his shirt, "you aren't busy though right?"

She giggled and shook her head, "no Paul, I'm not busy today." She kept a smiled on her face while he undressed himself and kissed her, "how'd you get work off?"

"I just said I didn't feel good. I didn't have to say much." He pushed her back into the shower with his mouth on hers, "you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. Why?" She pushed away and noticed her was all over her and she was barely touching him, her hands were at her sides instead of around him, "maybe the shower isn't the best place for this."

"But why not?" He kissed her ear, "are you sure you're okay? If you don't want to, we don't have to, its okay." He stood on his hands and knees above her, showing off his beyond perfect body.

"What the hell. There's a first time for everything right?" She put her arms around his neck and pulled him close, "I've never done this before."

"Well I'll do most of the work for us. How's that?" He scooped her up and put her against the steamy tile wall.

Two days later, Stephanie sat on the chair in her doctor's office, "well, Miss McMahon, how long has it been since you last had your menstrual cycle?" Her doctor sat on his computer, staring at her test results.

"I don't know, not really recent. Maybe like a month ago." She nervously fidgeted her fingers around, "am I pregnant?"

"From the looks of these couple of tests, I think so. I just have one more thing I want to do." He stood up and put some rubber gloves on, "the gel will probably be a little cold. Just a warning." He put a big glob of gel on her stomach and put an ultrasound device over it, "breathe a little lighter."

Stephanie waited in anticipation as her doctor stared at the screen and hummed to himself, then, she turned the screen to her and pointed, "looks like you are indeed pregnant. Look here, it's a heartbeat. A very strong heartbeat."

"That's my baby?" She squinted her eyes to look at the screen, "it already has a heartbeat?"

"Yes it does." The doctor smiled and wiped the gel off her stomach, "I'm gonna need to make you another appointment for pre-natal care you know, you're gonna have a lot of appointments coming up."

She was silent. All she could think about was how she was gonna tell Paul, and how he was gonna react. Was he gonna be mad? She didn't think he would be, but at the same time, she didn't see how he would be happy either. She left the doctor's office with a list of items she needed to buy, with a do's and don'ts list.

As much as she wanted to start calling her friends and family, she refrained from grabbing her phone from her purse. She wanted Paul to be the first one to know, even though Candace already kinda knew, but it hadn't been for sure yet. She threw her stuff on the kitchen table and looked through her mail, spotting her final paycheck, "you're going to the baby." She opened it and threw the envelope away.

She came out of her bathroom and grabbed her purse again, checking to make sure she had her doctor's list. She locked the door behind her and slowly started for her car, meeting her sister on the way, "Melanie, hi, what are you doing here?" She shoved the list in her pocket.

"I need to borrow some shoes, Kayla has a ballet recital thing tomorrow night, and I know you have a bunch of really nice shoes for work. Can I please borrow a pair?"

"I was just about to go to the store, but yeah, come on." She turned around and walked back to her apartment. She led her sister to her second bedroom, not really remembering the two pregnancy tests laying on the a card table.

"Steph? Are you pregnant?" Melanie saw the two tests, and the box laying on the table, "you have pregnancy tests in here. Why in here?"

"Damnit." Stephanie mumbled under her breath, "Melanie, promise me you won't tell anyone, especially mom and dad. Please keep it a secret between you and me right now. I want to tell people."

"You're really pregnant? That's great Steph! Who's the lucky guy? And why haven't I met him yet?" Melanie hugged her, "are you still with the guy?"

"Yeah, he just doesn't know I'm pregnant yet. His name is Paul, and him and I have only been dating for maybe two months. I just went to the doctor's today though. I'm kinda scared."

"Why? Being pregnant is so exciting. It does amazing things to your body. You're gonna love it Steph." She held her own stomach, "that means that your baby and Parker are gonna be so close in age."

"You're four months though, how do you already know its gonna be a boy? And you already named him?" Stephanie hadn't even begun to think about names.

"Well Phil and I already have two girls, we want a boy now. But we have a name if it's a girl, we'll name her Megan." She seemed really excited.

"So you are going with the first letters thing? You know, the names of the girls start with the first letter of your name, and the boys with Phil?"

"Isn't that cute?" Melanie was smiling from ear to ear, "you totally should do that too. I have a book and could totally help you with naming it."

"Maybe, it all depends on what Paul and I want to name it. I want to talk to him about it first." She opened her closet, "there, here's most of my shoes, it's your choice."

"Come on Steph, let's talk first, who's this Paul guy? When do I get to meet him? Can I meet him before mom and dad?"

Stephanie thought, "I'm thinking about waiting until a big holiday, like Thanksgiving or something, and just showing up to mom and dad's house and have me being pregnant a big surprise. What do you think of that?"

"It sounds like it would turn out really good. But, do you think mom and dad would react in a good way? Maybe you should tell them first, I don't know."