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A/N ok I want to thank those of you who are reading this story and those of you who are being the brave ones and leaving a review you make my day when you do that. Anyway I want to thank hippogriff-tamer and h6p8gv for all their input for this chapter and especially to hippogriff-tamer for being my beta.
Pregnant! How was she supposed to explain this to her parents? They would be horrified and greatly disappointed in her. "Link?" she asked as they made their way back to her house.
"Yeah, Trace?" he said distractedly.
"How are we going to break this to our parents?"
He didn't say anything and that made Tracy annoyed beyond belief. "Link, please say something?" she nearly pleaded, tears in her eyes. Her thoughts began to run rampant through her head with questions like what is he thinking?… What are we to do now?… I don't know how to be a mother… Are we really ready for this?… Was he thinking of breaking up with her? Was he going to leave her to raise their child on her own? She could help the negative thoughts that were eating at her as he sat there completely silent.
Link knew he was probably making her thoughts run to the negative but he couldn't think of anything to say. She was pregnant. She was going to give birth to their child. He was going to be a father. The shock from what she had told him earlier had finally set in and he was scared to death. He had no idea how they were going to tell either of their parents this news. He risked a glance over to his fiancée. He nearly stopped the car when he saw her tears. He hated to see her cry. Instead he reached over and took her hand gave it a gentle squeeze trying to reassure her, letting her know that he was there with her and wouldn't be going anywhere, that they were in this together.
She smiled when he took her hand and her thoughts turned towards the future. She knew now how they would tell their parents of the impending birth and wedding. The last thought made her smile brightly.
"Link, I think we should tell them, when we tell them about our engagement."
He smiled at this. Leave it to Tracy to think of the perfect solution to their dilemma.
The night finally came when they were going to announce their engagement along with the news of her pregnancy. Link and his dad, arrived exactly at six and were greeted at the door by Wilbur.
"Come in, Come in," Wilbur told them, standing away from the door to allow them into the room.
Wilbur then told them that the ladies would be out shortly, giving the excuse that they were finishing up their hair and all.
Tracy was the first to appear and Link's jaw nearly hit the floor. She was wearing a gorgeous royal blue dress that hugged her frame enticingly. She smiled and walked up to him. "Hello."
"Hey, yourself," he whispered in awe.
Edna made her appearance next and Wilbur smiled upon seeing her. She was wearing a red dress that was a near copy of the one she had worn the year before; when Tracy had finally gotten her out of the house for the first time in what had seemed like forever.
"So shall we go?" Andrew Larkin asked.
They all nodded in agreement and headed of the Sabatino's Italian Restaurant, where they were to dine that evening. Once there the waiter quickly seated the group and left, leaving them to talk.
Link took a deep breath and squeezed Tracy's hand beneath the table. To say he was nervous would be an understatement; he was a down right nervous wreck. He wasn't sure how all of their news would be received but there was one thing he was positive of and that was that he and Tracy would be together no matter how this evening turned out.
"Mr. and Mrs. Turnblad, several months ago I asked you for your daughter's hand in marriage and a few weeks ago I asked her and she said yes," he began only to have Tracy continue for him because his nerves were getting the better of him. "We also wanted to tell you that not only are we planning on marrying and soon, we are also going to be having a baby in eight months," she finished with a nervous smile.
Their parents just sat there in shock, not about the wedding, for they all had somehow known that was a given, but about the announcement that had come afterwards. Tracy could easily imagine what was going through her parent's heads as well as Link's dads. She was worried that they would make a scene and it was the last thing she wanted to happen right now.
She didn't need to worry about the possible scene, though both parents, after getting over the shock, were not all that surprised to find that she was pregnant. Her parents had wished that they had waited to start their family until after high school, there was nothing they could do about it now, so there was no point in yelling at them for it.
"Tracy, Link, I think you two are doing the right thing in getting married and we agree it should be soon considering your condition. We only wish you had waited until after graduation," her parents told them, with some sort of understanding.
"We know we should have, we just got carried away," Tracy explained.
"So when's the wedding?"
A/N so the big hurtle is over and done with but an even bigger one is on the way stay tuned to find out what it is.