Hanging on a Moment Part II

Chapter 8

Authors Note: Greetings Pretty Little Readers. I had typed up this epic, amazing chapter and my computer decided to be like the c*nt of all times and did a force restart and I lost mostly all but the beginning of it. I seriously cried. Like Kim Kardashian style. I was depressed all week because of it and couldn't even open my computer. I did try to auto recover it right after to no avail. This motha freaking computer can be thankful I don't have the money to replace it with a beautiful Macbook Air or it would be in a thousand pieces in my apartment parking lot. If you can't tell, I'm clearly still not over it. Deeeeeeep breaths. To distract myself from my hatred of my laptop, I binged watched Season three of Orange is the New Black for the past three days. Currently, I am now empty and alone and that is why I decided to give my crapper computer another shot to fulfill my emptiness. I have also read through this chapter again and realized I could benefit from some actual human interactions and some vitamin D, so if you don't get any updates in the future, that is why. Enjoy. Also, watch OITNB, it is God's gift to television and I'm not being overly dramatic like I usually am.-Brostow

"Mom, Parker just called me a douche." Emmett relayed to Megan who was utterly surprised and shocked.

"He told me I couldn't be the Hulk. He said the Hulk was a boy and I could be the Hulks mother." The sassy eight year old snapped defending herself.

"Oh." Megan replied replied with eyebrows drawn up turning herself away from the kids so she didn't burst out laughing in front of them.

"Ok." She started trying to compose herself. "Em, you kids can be whatever Super Hero's you want to be. Being a boy or girl doesn't matter. Parker, that word is inappropriate."

"I'm sorry I called you a name, will you still be my best friend Emmett?" Parker asked bashfully.

"Yeah. I'm sorry I told you that you had to be the Hulks mother. Moms are lame." He glanced at his feet as Parker grabbed his hand and pulled him back to his playroom. Megan returned to her living room burying her face into a sofa cushion so the kids couldn't hear her shrill laughter.

*****PLL*****

"Hello?" Megan called out to an empty living room.

"We're in the kitchen!" a distant voice called back as she removed her shoes and placed them on the rug.

"Hey, Megan." Aria called over her shoulder placing her sleeping son in Piper's old flower print swing that Hanna had set up for the visitors.

"Thank you so much for taking Parker to soccer practice this morning."

"Oh Good, Megan brought wine." Spencer announced grabbing one of the bottles out of the tall brunette's hands as she slumped down into one of the barstools.

"Oh no!" Megan gasped with a sudden realization, wrapping her twiggy arms around Spencer.

"I'm so sorry honey." She stated somberly pulling away. Aria and Hanna had already been in on Spencer's failed IVF attempt.

Spencer did her best to plaster a fake little smile across her face. "I'm ok. Toby is pretty disappointed, but we will be fine." She choked out dryly as Megan held her pale hands into her own.

"How are you feeling Spence?" she asked empathetically.

"Kind of crazy, but hopefully everything wears out of my system soon." She stated in a small voice.

"Do you and Toby think you will try again?" Aria questioned with her big doe eyes.

"No. This is too hard on me and it's super expensive." Spencer remarked trying to be stoic like she normally is.

"If you need us to stay somewhere else," Aria trailed off before Spencer cut in.

"No, we love having you and Tallen stay with us. I think I need a little bit, but Toby and I discuss our options at a later time."

"That's great Spencer." Hanna added encouragingly.

"Yeah. I really don't want to talk about any of that today though, so lets change the subject.

Megan snapped her fingers recalling what had happened earlier in the morning. "Oh, I so have a story!" she exclaimed sitting up in her seat. "So I was in my office this morning, the kids were playing for like forty minutes before practice started and I thought I'd get a little done on my column. Emmett comes bolting through the door upset because Parker wanted to be the Hulk. Em told Parker that the Hulk was a boy and that apparently pissed her off so she told him he was being a 'douche.' I have never seen Emmett so upset." Megan snorted as everyone died laughing.

Hanna turned red with embarrassment. "Oh my Gosh, I am so, so sorry!" she exhaled mortified. "What did you tell her?"

"Well first, I had to muster up every little bit of energy to not burst out laughing. Then I made Em apologize because girls can do anything and told Parker not to use that word." Megan snorted recalling the whole situation.

"So, what did Mr. River's do to be called the 'D' word?" Aria stated putting an emphasis on the 'D.' "Hold that thought!" she announced standing up retriving Tallen who was now awake screaming his little head off.

"Oh, son! Why?" She screeched holding him up reviling his major blow-out.

"You can change the poop grenade in Piper's room. We still have the changer up in there." Hanna mentioned she did her best to not breathe in the boy's poop explosion.

Aria bee-lined up the stairs, to get her son out of the mess as quickly as possible.

"Hey, Han. Is the bathroom down here fixed yet?" Spencer questioned standing up.

"Yes, the plumber fished like five little people from the toilet the other day. So, needless to say, beware of the Piper-proofing we did." Hanna murmured as Spencer disappeared down the long hall. Hanna stood up grabbing a magazine from the pile of mail and began fanning herself.

"So, when did you find out?" Megan looked over at Hanna.

"That my daughter wants to use the toilet as swimming pool?" Hanna chuckled not looking up.

"You are so pregnant again!" the brunette pointed to the blonde who shot her a weird expression.

"Whaaaa?"

"You've bailed the last two play dates, you totally held your breath when Aria walked by with the stink bomb, you haven't touched a drop of your wine yet and you are always the first one to finish!"

"Could you shut up?" Hanna shrieked in a quiet whisper. "I don't want Spencer to hear."

"What don't you want me to hear?" Spencer stated as she entered from the hallway with a little smirk on her face. "That you are totally preggers again! Even though, I have no fucking clue how. Explain?"

"What?" Hanna played dumb.

"Cooooome on Hanna! I've been your best friend since we were kids ourselves. I've also seen you knocked up three times." Spencer uttered in a matter of fact-ly tone.

"Well, as you all know Caleb had a vasectomy a few weeks ago. His doctor mentioned that we should use back up protection for the first few months because it doesn't work right away." She explained.

"So you didn't."

"Obviously not." She mumbled rolling her eyes. "I mean in the beginning, but then, no."

Megan and Spencer exchanged looks before they both let out a smile.

"Congratulations Fertile Myrtle." Spencer smiled giving the blonde a hug.

"Thank you Spence. I'm really sorry. I know how much you wanted another one."

"Hanna you don't have to be sorry, everything turns out how it is suppose to. Just because it wasn't in the cards for me to bare another child doesn't mean I can't be excited for you!"

"Excited for who?" Aria asked as she entered back into the white marbled kitchen.

"Hanna's knocked up again." Megan mumbled grabbing Tallen from Aria.

"Really? Congrats Han!" the small one smiled giving Hanna a hug.

"Is that why you called Caleb a douche, because he got you pregnant again?" Spencer piped up.

"No, we both were pretty calm when I found out. I mean clearly this isn't the first time." Hanna laughed to herself.

"Why did you call him that then?" Aria asked with a puzzled expression.

Hanna took a few moments really trying to remember. "Caleb ordered pizza because I have been feeling nauseous and I didn't want to cook. He ordered pepperoni."

All the girls started laughing.

"What do the girls think?" Megan interjected looking at the fridge covered in the River's girls art work.

"We just found out like two weeks ago. I haven't even been to the doctor's yet. I think we will hold off as long as possible because I don't think I could stand answering baby related questions for another nine months." Hanna shuttered in despair.

"When I was pregnant with Piper, Paisley was convinced I was pregnant with twins and they were in my ass."

Hanna started crying a little. "I'm sorry, I'm just emotional. Ugh, I'm going to have to do all this baby stuff all over again. I was just starting to accept that I wasn't going to have anymore babies and boom! I am going to get fat, all over again. Right after I spend consecutive months throwing my guts up everyday."

Spencer squeezed Hanna's hand as she sobbed a little into a tissue. "I'm being such an ass."

"No, if anything, you are making me feel a little better about everything." Spencer laughed a little as tears formed in the corner of her eyes.

"We will help you in whatever you need."

"Totally, look how good I am with babies!" Megan mentioned pointing to Aria's bundle of joy who was passed out in her arms.

"It's okay to have mixed feelings. I sure as hell know I did when I found out I was pregnant with T!" Aria stated furrowing her eyebrows. "I mean, here I am, thinking about leaving my husband every minute of the day and deciding that maybe having a baby would bring us together again. I thought when the moment came for me to be a mom, that I would be so in love and be totally ecstatic to have a baby. I was so depressed, I didn't tell anyone for weeks. I even considered termination." Aria mumbled with soggy eyes as she bent down and gave her sleeping baby a kiss. "Spencer is right, it works out how it is suppose to."

"I was in the happiest of happy marriages, Toby and I had been trying for a baby for months and I was still scared shitless when I found out I was pregnant with Charlotte. I think Toby was more excited than I was, well, the whole pregnancy. I was even more terrified when they placed her in my arms for the first time. Like, what if I screw up her entire life? Then Toby held her for the first time and the way he looked at her, like my heart exploded.

All the girls were in tears now as they could relate with one another because they were all mothers.

"Thank you guys." Hanna sniffled. "I love you."

"We love you too." Aria replied back.

Megan look at the sweet baby boy nestled in her arms and it reminded her of when Emmett was a baby. How Spencer and Hanna were her rocks when she was struggling to raise her son on her own.

"Spencer, I will carry your baby." Megan piped up as the three girls looked up her strangely.

"What?" Spencer breathed out shocked by the comment.

"You said they didn't use all the embryos, so you wouldn't even have to go through the process again."

"Megan, I can't ask you to do that. I know you didn't want to have anymore kids or be pregnant again."

"You didn't ask, I offered. I don't want to have anymore kids, that is true. Emmett stole my heart when he was born and I promised him that I would do anything and everything for the rest of his life." The brunette paused exhaling sharply. "It doesn't mean that I can't be a vessel for new life. I didn't mind being pregnant, shit, I didn't even know until I was almost halfway done!" she smirked.

"You'd really consider doing this for me?" Spencer asked tearfully as Aria took Tallen from Megan.

"Absolutely, I mean, I have to discuss everything with Justin first but yes."

"But why?"

"You are my family." Megan mentioned as her and Spencer hugged it out.

"Do you hear that Mr. there are going to be so many new friends for you in a few months." Aria cooed at Tallen as a little half smile crept across his face. "I think he's excited!" she squealed.