Clenching her jaw, she finally let it drop as she stared at the wall in front of her. "I'm...pregnant?" She said the last word slowly as if she absorbed every letter and every syllable. Despite feeling weak just a minute ago, she straightened and Jess' arm dropped from her waist. "I can't even comprehend, who? what? when?!" Frustration was rising; Jess hadn't said one word, in fact he hadn't even moved from the spot where he was still standing.
It was suppose to be a joke, and yet the opposite of joy was creeping upon him. Her words were finally branching out to memory, his eyes slowly danced upon her--watching, unprepared and realizing that they were both hardly ready to be parents.
No...no, no! Most possibly they could have waited at least another two years. Maybe.
Going back to that last thought. Jess thought and absently shifted his leg back so his back was resting against the wall. Siblings--hardly connected siblings. Almost groaning in his sigh, in the corner of his eye he saw Rory checking the pregnancy test, then looking back up, sucking in a breath, staring at the opposite wall and then repeating the process. She did that almost three times before stepping back and joining him against the wall. Emitting her own sigh she slid down, tucking her knees against her chest.
Her action startled him out of his own thoughts. His hand reached out reflexively to catch her arm but his fingers fell short as they brushed against her shoulder and it took a moment before he gazed down to see her nearly in tears. Clearly they were both in check for a meltdown. Very soon.
Jess sighed, letting out a breath he never knew that he had been holding before letting his own body sink down to the floor beside her. As soon as he settled, she spoke. "What about everything we worked for? Our careers?" The silence was surprisingly stunning almost throwing both of them back into shock.
"Are we going to let it ruin our careers?" Jess inquired his answer to hers with numbing emotion. Yet it was still a good question. Would it? Not it...baby. Would their baby do that? Would it be so time consuming that they let their careers slip through the cracks? Everything they had worked for? And yet how did they know they were going to raise this child in the right way? There was only so much humor tolerated and both Rory and Jess knew that it was going to take so much more than humor to raise a child.
Okay, so there would be a little bit of humor. In fact this child would be half Gilmore. Jess cracked a smile, almost chuckling to himself. Rory just looked over at him, tears brimming in her eyes from before, in fact she was looking at him like he was acting crazy. "I'm sorry, but you have to know this kid will definitely be Gilmore material."
She sniffled as it all started to set in, and the next thing they were both sitting there on the tile floor, laughing. It even took a few minutes before they stopped, and seemed ironic that a minute ago they were about to have a meltdown and now they were laughing--hard. At first she didn't even know why they were. Then it started to set in that there would be some humor in this after all. The pregnancy. Raising their child. Despite the up and down period they were starting at right now.
It was quiet again between them--the air slightly cleared--tears almost forgotten. But there was still that question lingering in both of their minds. How were they going to do this? Just when both of their careers were looking up, they were faced with the shifting atmosphere of bringing a child into this world. "How are we going to do this Jess? I mean seriously we're not teenagers anymore, which doesn't exactly mean that we're ready for this." Pointing down at her stomach she stood up abruptly and leaned against the wall, hand pushing her hair back as she let out a deep breath of air.
Jess stood up slowly knowing there was a Gilmore rant coming on. He knew that look in her eyes, the expression that told him that she was thinking of several things all at once. "It's not like we meant for it to happen."
Clenching her jaw, she finally let it drop as she stared at the wall in front of her. "I'm...pregnant?" She said the last word slowly as if she absorbed every letter and every syllable. Despite feeling weak just a minute ago, she straightened and Jess' arm dropped from her waist. "I can't even comprehend, who? what? when?!" Frustration was rising; Jess hadn't said one word, in fact he hadn't even moved from the spot where he was still standing.
It was suppose to be a joke, and yet the opposite of joy was creeping upon him. Her words were finally branching out to memory, his eyes slowly danced upon her--watching, unprepared and realizing that they were both hardly ready to be parents.
No...no, no! Most possibly they could have waited at least another two years. Maybe.
Going back to that last thought. Jess thought and absently shifted his leg back so his back was resting against the wall. Siblings--hardly connected siblings. Almost groaning in his sigh, in the corner of his eye he saw Rory checking the pregnancy test, then looking back up, sucking in a breath, staring at the opposite wall and then repeating the process. She did that almost three times before stepping back and joining him against the wall. Emitting her own sigh she slid down, tucking her knees against her chest.
Her action startled him out of his own thoughts. His hand reached out reflexively to catch her arm but his fingers fell short as they brushed against her shoulder and it took a moment before he gazed down to see her nearly in tears. Clearly they were both in check for a meltdown. Very soon.
Jess sighed, letting out a breath he never knew that he had been holding before letting his own body sink down to the floor beside her. As soon as he settled, she spoke. "What about everything we worked for? Our careers?" The silence was surprisingly stunning almost throwing both of them back into shock.
"Are we going to let it ruin our careers?" Jess inquired his answer to hers with numbing emotion. Yet it was still a good question. Would it? Not it...baby. Would their baby do that? Would it be so time consuming that they let their careers slip through the cracks? Everything they had worked for? And yet how did they know they were going to raise this child in the right way? There was only so much humor tolerated and both Rory and Jess knew that it was going to take so much more than humor to raise a child.
Okay, so there would be a little bit of humor. In fact this child would be half Gilmore. Jess cracked a smile, almost chuckling to himself. Rory just looked over at him, tears brimming in her eyes from before, in fact she was looking at him like he was acting crazy. "I'm sorry, but you have to know this kid will definitely be Gilmore material."
She sniffled as it all started to set in, and the next thing they were both sitting there on the tile floor, laughing. It even took a few minutes before they stopped, and seemed ironic that a minute ago they were about to have a meltdown and now they were laughing--hard. At first she didn't even know why they were. Then it started to set in that there would be some humor in this after all. The pregnancy. Raising their child. Despite the up and down period they were starting at right now.
It was quiet again between them--the air slightly cleared--tears almost forgotten. But there was still that question lingering in both of their minds. How were they going to do this? Just when both of their careers were looking up, they were faced with the shifting atmosphere of bringing a child into this world. "How are we going to do this Jess? I mean seriously we're not teenagers anymore, which doesn't exactly mean that we're ready for this." Pointing down at her stomach she stood up abruptly and leaned against the wall, hand pushing her hair back as she let out a deep breath of air.
Jess stood up slowly knowing there was a Gilmore rant coming on. He knew that look in her eyes, the expression that told him that she was thinking of several things all at once. "It's not like we meant for it to happen."
She looked up at him with doubt. "We could have waited. I mean, couldn't we have waited...you know to have a child?" Taking a few baby steps towards him she groaned as she buried herself in the comfort of his body. She stayed that way several minutes as his fingers brushed comfortingly through his hair. After a few minutes after calming somewhat she looked up at his still frame. "You know you haven't said too much about this. What are you thinking?"
"Like I could be hit with a sledge hammer right now, and yet I'd be pretty okay with it." He nodded his agreement to the way he felt right now. In fact he couldn't make out in words everything that he was feeling right now, only that he could compare it to a sledge hammer and a tone that told her that he didn't want to talk about it right now.
Dropping her head back on his chest, he hugged her tighter. They stayed like that for the next few minutes, until she felt her legs tiring from standing up for too long. "Umm...Jess." Offering with a muffled sigh, she tried to move only to feel a tight resistance from his arms around her. A few seconds later she felt them loosen to which she stood straight. Taking one look at the look at the expression on his face, she added just for good measure, since neither one of them was in a great condition to be standing. "Maybe we should go sit down on the couch." He didn't move, and she grabbed his arm. Yet he still didn't budge. "I'm going to need a little help here. Remember? Sick wife. Pregnant sick wife..." She hinted which snapped him half way out of the trance he was in.
They stopped right outside the bathroom frame at an abrupt stop before Rory remembered that the light needed to be turned off. Stepping around him with her arm looped around his, she snaked her fingers around the corner and flicked the light off before stepping across the kitchen and both landed back on the couch in the living room, where they further let the news sink in.
Sitting next to each other they were quiet, until Jess mumbled. "You know our kid is going to be calling us mom and dad before we know it." Rory took that in with a tilt of her head as she straightened her back.
"Don't forget the walking...and the crawling. Although the crawling comes before walking." Rory stated, correcting herself on what she did know about kids. "Diapers..."
"And lots of them." He sighed, even his lip curled a bit with an amused smile. "Looks like we're not completely useless on the subject of kids."
Rory gave him an uneasy smile, although it was more for reassurance then for the fact that they were just sitting here throwing out things they knew about kids."When William was born, Luke and my mom resembled zombies. In fact I remember her falling asleep on the phone when she was talking to me."
"Well that's something we don't have to worry about. We're already use to not getting much sleep."
"True. Except I heard horror stories from Lane about the nonstop crying--really soothing." Rory cast in partial sarcasm, putting her head on his shoulder.
This moment right here, was the beginning of a long road in the adventures of pregnancy.