When Jenny hit her third month. She decided that she wanted to tell their friends. It was mid morning on a Tuesday and the kids were off for Veteran's Day. Jack had opened the store for the morning but planned on closing around ten. Just before the Veterans Day parade was to begin. Allowing him enough time to change into his uniform and get to the start of main street. So he could march with the other veterans in town. Jethro and Jenny were sitting under the bleachers at Stillwater High. Jenny was wearing the red white and blue tank top she had worn on Fourth of July over a silk black long sleeve shirt and a pair of yoga pants. Her stomach was noticeable through the tight-fitting shirts but she could still get away with that type of outfits.
"You know the oldies in town are going to raise hell over you wearing that to the Veterans Day Parade." Jethro commented.
"I know but I want to dress like this while I can. This is already almost too tight for me." Jenny replied.
"Darla is going to the city for maternity clothes this weekend. If you want to tag along." Jethro offered.
"I do get paid on Friday." Jenny replied.
"Me too." Jethro replied.
"Do you think it's too soon to telling people?" Jenny asked.
"You are thirteen weeks. It should be fine." Jethro replied.
"Alright I don't want to take attention away from the holiday. So how about we tell everybody at school tomorrow?" Jenny suggested.
"Deal" Jethro replied.
"Jenny! Jethro! It's time to go!" Tony called.
The next day Jenny and Jethro sat down with their usual group at lunch. Most of the kids were Jenny's friends. Jethro was well liked but only considered himself to be close friends with three other boys and Jenny but with Sam Franks and G. Callen dating kids from Jenny's group and Frankie Porter being the older brother of Jenny's best friend Linda. The groups kind of intertwined.
"Guys we have some news." Jenny said.
"Please tell me one of you isn't dying!" Linda cried she could be a little over-dramatic.
"If it's Jethro I call dibs on Jenny." Frankie replied.
"Franklin!" Linda snapped.
"It's Jenny the hot chick always dies." Sam corrected.
"Guys I am really uncomfortable with the subject of death." Shelby Swanson begged.
"Nobody is dying I am pregnant." Jenny said.
"Crap Safant!" Callen cried.
"Dude maybe say crap in Romanian and holy in English." Sam warned.
"It is the literal translation." Callen replied.
Later that afternoon Jethro was at his job at the hardware store and the other kids and Darla were out. Jenny was sitting on her bed with her friends Tammy Williams, Leslie O'Brien, Carly Tucker, Shelby, and Linda.
"So you are seriously pregnant?" Leslie asked.
"Yeah I have my ultrasounds right here." Jenny replied picking up her scrapbook.
"How is Jethro doing with all of this?" Shelby asked.
"He is good." Jenny replied.
"How far along?" Tammy asked.
"Thirteen weeks." Jenny replied.
"And your just telling us now!" Linda cried.
"We wanted to wait until the second trimester." Jenny explained.
"Do you have any names picked out?" Tammy asked.
"It is a little soon but Jethro wants to use Ann for a middle name if it is a girl." Jenny explained.
"Why Ann? That name is so old!" Carly cried her family had only moved to Stillwater the year before.
"Ann was Jethro's mom's name. She died of cancer a couple of years before you moved here." Jenny explained.
"Oh" Carly whispered.
"I will cut you slack because you are new here but don't say anything about her in front of Jethro. He is a little sensitive about the subject." Jenny replied.
"I won't." Carly replied.
"Oh my gosh! I can't wait to throw you a shower!" Linda cried.
"Slow down Lin I am only three months." Jenny replied.
"I know but we should have it when you are about six months!" Lin cried.
"Darla kind of wants me to have joint shower with her." Jenny replied.
"Are they naming that baby Ann too?" Leslie asked.
"Why she and Jack name their baby after Jack's dead wife?" Shelby asked.
"Oh yeah right." Leslie sighed.
"When is your next appointment?" Linda asked.
"When I am sixteen weeks." Jenny replied.
"Can I go with you?" Linda asked.
"I don't know Jethro will probably go with me." Jenny replied.
"Well let me do something!" Linda begged.
"Fine you can plan my shower just don't go crazy." Jenny replied.
"When have I ever gone crazy?" Linda asked.
"Remember when Jethro got beamed in the head with the baseball and was rushed to the hospital and I thought he was just making excuses to blow off our anniversary?" Jenny questioned.
"So I tried to kidnap your boyfriend from the clinic." Linda replied.
"No kidnappings, no fire works, no power outages, in short nothing illegal." Jenny ordered.
"Oh alright." Linda sighed.
"Has Jethro built a crib yet?" Shelby asked trying to change the subject.
"He is working on it." Jenny replied.
Jethro ran into Sam Franks on his way home from the hardware store. Sam was the son of the man who had first inspired and recruited Jethro to join the Marines. Mike had been a close friend of Jack's friend LJ Moore in the Marines and had met up with Jack upon returning to the states. Even though he was nearly twenty years his senior. Jethro had considered Mike to be his best friend. It wasn't until after he died of lung cancer when Jethro and Sam were seven. That Jethro got close to his son. Now the two were almost as close as Jethro and Jenny.
"So you're going to be a dad?" Sam asked.
"Yep" Jethro replied.
"You still joining the Marine's?" Sam asked.
"Jack won't let me." Jethro sighed.
"That's too bad." Sam replied.
"It's OK I don't mind. I will do anything for Jen and our baby." Jethro replied.
"When's the wedding?" Sam asked.
"I don't know we are just engaged to be engaged right now." Jethro replied.
"Dibs on best man when it goes down. My old man may be gone nearly ten years but he's still got connections at Breasts, Bellies, and Beyond." Sam explained.
"I don't really want strippers it's demeaning." Jethro replied.
"OK no strippers but when the baby is born I will bring cigars." Sam replied.
"SAM! Your dad died of lung cancer!" Jethro snapped.
"You OK man?" Sam asked.
"You can't tell anybody this." Jethro replied.
"You thinking of bailing on Jen?" Sam asked.
"Dude I had a dream Jen died last night." Jethro admitted.
A/N The last line gives a hint to the character death. New chapter soon. Please review and thanks for reading.