"My child is not wearing that." Hanna glared at onesie in the picture Spencer had sent her. It was soft blue with "I love my mom," written in big gaudy lettering on the front. The message was good, but it looked tacky, and she didn't want anything about her son's wardrobe to be tacky. She hadn't gone through four years of design school to have her firstborn dress tacky. The blonde let out an exasperated sigh. In an hour of online shopping, she had only found a handful of onesies that she would actually spend money on. She rubbed her temples and closed her laptop. "Do you think I'm being too picky?" she questioned, looking over at her friend, whose attention seemed to be occupied by something on her phone. "Huh? No, not really." Hanna raised an eyebrow at her friend's distracted demeanor. She set her laptop down on the coffee table and leaned over to see if she could catch a glimpse of the screen, but Spencer hit the home button before she could see what it was. "What was that?" she questioned. She doubted she was actually going to get a truthful answer, but it was worth a shot. "Nothing." A thin line formed on the blonde's lips. "Spence..."

Spencer was doing it again; keeping secrets from her friend. But, just like last time, this was for a good cause. "How are you feeling?" she asked, locking her phone and putting it back into her pocket. Hanna gave her a confused look, but answered anyway. "Tired," she began, glancing down at her bump. "He kicked all night." She hadn't been getting much sleep lately because of this, despite her and Caleb's best efforts to change that. "Is he kicking now?" Spencer asked, eyes also trailing down to her friend's bump. Hanna nodded, reaching for her friend's hand, and then pausing. "Do you wanna feel?" Spencer nodded. "Yeah, of course." The blonde guided her friend's hand to where the baby was moving. "Imagine having to deal with this all night, every night," the blonde chuckled, letting go of Spencer's hand and resting her arms behind her head. A near-inaudible, "Wow," escapes the brunette's lips.

"Does he have a name yet?" Hanna shook her head. "We're waiting until he's born." Spencer raised an eyebrow, but Hanna wasn't finished. "But I've got a couple of ideas." The young mother had read the name book cover to cover, highlighting, bookmarking, and dog-earring everything that caught her interest. "Care to share?" Spencer was genuinely curious about her best friend's plans. Hanna wasn't sure if she wanted to share, though. It wasn't a permanent list, and she hadn't even run any of the names by Caleb yet. For all she knew, he could come at her with a list that completely trumped hers, and they would choose all four off of his. That was a stretch, but it was still a possibility. "I can give you the first letters," Hanna offered, sitting up and resting both hands on the bump. "There's an L, an M, an O, and a C." Spencer's brow furrowed in thought. Why had Hanna chosen such popular first letters? That made guessing so much more difficult. Spencer gave up after a moment or two. "C doesn't stand for Charles, does it?" she questioned, completely seriously. "You know I wouldn't go there. I was hesitant to even look at the 'A' names," she admitted. "Luckily, I didn't like any of them."

Spencer pulled out her iPhone and lit the lockscreen to check the time, but was also greeted by a text from Emily. "Are you too tired to go somewhere with me?" Hanna shrugged. "I guess I could go somewhere. I'm not dressed for it though." She gestured towards her oversized teeshirt and pajama pants. "Well, why don't you go get dressed? I'll start the car." Hanna looked hesitant. She was comfortable where she was, in the clothes she was wearing. On the other hand, it would've been nice to get out of the house for a little bit. "Okay, but you're gonna have to help me up." Spencer chuckled and got off of the couch, extending her hands towards her friends to grab. "Thanks," the blonde said, pulling herself up and heading upstairs to get changed.

When she came back down, Spencer was waiting on the couch for her, and so was Caleb. "Hey, so I know we said we were gonna go somewhere together, but I think Caleb has somewhere he wants to take you." Hanna's gaze shifted between her friend and her fiance. "Ready?" The blonde nodded slowly, moving over to him. Spencer headed out the door, telling Hanna that she would see her later. If only the blonde had known how true that was.


This drive was giving Hanna a serious case of deja vu. She was with Caleb; he was driving, and she didn't know where they were going. "There's some kind of surprise attached to this, isn't there?" she questioned, looking over at him. His eyes remained on the road. "What makes you think that, Han?" The blonde shrugged, though she wasn't confused. She knew exactly what she was thinking when she said that. "It's just... The way things have been today. Spencer was way more distracted by her phone that she usually is, and then we made plans to go somewhere, but then you showed up even though I thought you were supposed to be out with Toby today, and decided that we were going to go somewhere, and now I don't know where we're going, and—" Caleb starts to laugh. "Breathe, Han. Yes, there's a surprise attached to this." Hanna pouted. She was beginning to hate surprises. Even though Caleb's surprises were always good surprises, she hated not knowing what was going to come out of them.

After about ten minutes of driving, Hanna knew where they were going to end up. All roads in Rosewood were familiar, but this was one of the most familiar: the road to Toby's house. Caleb had been there all day, helping Toby, Emily, Alison, Ashley, and Ted decorate for the baby shower, and using Spencer as a decoy back home. Now, he was pulling into the driveway again to show Hanna what they had come up with. "That's a lot of cars," Hanna commented, getting out of the car once he parked. "Well, a lot of people are waiting for you." She was trying to put two and two together, but she couldn't quite figure it out. It was a party, of course, but for what? It wasn't her birthday, and it wasn't Caleb's birthday. It wasn't any of her friend's birthdays, or else she would've been in the know. She was running out of ideas, but when Toby opened the door for them and she saw the interior of the house, it clicked.

It was a baby shower. Of course. After Toby, Spencer was the first person to greet them. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier," she said, embracing Hanna (rather awkwardly, considering the protruding baby bump). "It's okay!" she replied, pulling away and gripping Caleb's arm. "This was a good surprise." They headed towards the living room, where Ashley, Ted, Emily, and Alison were. One of Hanna's home movies from when she was younger was playing on the screen. Her cheeks immediately turned red when she saw the chubby young child digging into a chocolate cake with her bare hands. She scanned the room for the remote, wanting to put a stop to it, but she couldn't find it. "You couldn't find anything better to watch?" she questioned, standing in front of the television and crossing her arms. "What's a baby shower without baby stuff? Would you rather have your friends see you butt naked?" Ashley asked, reaching into her purse and grabbing another disk.

Hanna shook her head at that. Caleb was the only one allowed to see her in the nude, but even so, old videos were off limits. "Maybe we should just turn off the TV," Caleb suggested, soliciting a grin and a nod from Hanna. "That's alright. We have games, right? Where's Spencer?" As if on cue, Spencer entered the room with two light blue pin-on ribbons; one for Hanna, and one for Caleb. "We do," the tall brunette began, moving into the center of the room and grabbing a roll of yarn from the coffee table. Hanna knew what was coming, and she wasn't sure she was going to like it. "Alright, so the point of the game is to guess how big Hanna's bump is." Hanna rolled her eyes, saying, "Oh god." Caleb stepped out of the room to find Toby. He knew that, if he played, he would answer incorrectly and upset her, and he didn't want to upset her. "Closest person wins. Go!" The four guests formed a line, unrolling and cutting what they thought was the correct amount of yarn, and approaching the blonde to measure.

Hanna tried her best not to seem too annoyed about it. She knew that it was all in fun, and that they would never intentionally embarrass her, but it was difficult not to feel upset. Emily went first, and ended up cutting her yarn a few inches too short. That made the blonde feel a little bit better, but considering Emily's kind and polite demeanor, she wasn't sure if that was saying much. Alison was next. Unlike her girlfriend, she had cut the yarn a couple of inches too long; so long that it could wrap around her friend a time and a half. Ashley went next, and her cutting was much closer to the actual size, although she too was a few inches off. Not wanting to create any bad blood between him and his daughter-in-law, Ted passed on this round and sat down on the couch to watch. The last person to go was Spencer, whose piece of yarn was almost perfectly measured. Of course. The tall brunette possessed more spacial intelligence than everyone else in that room combined.

Spencer set the pieces of yarn aside and began to announce the next game, but the doorbell rang and interrupted everybody. "I'll be back," she said, exiting the room and leaving Hanna and everyone else to visit with each other. Hanna scanned the room, trying to figure out who might've been missing. Her mother and Ted were there. Emily and Alison were there. Caleb and Toby were in the other room, but they were there. Who were they missing? "Toby, Caleb, can you come here please?" Spencer called from the front of the house. That was when Hanna decided to investigate. She left the room, informing everyone else that she would be back in a minute. As she exited the room, she kept thinking and rethinking the list of people who she knew were and weren't invited. The only people she knew that weren't invited but might've cared to show up were her father, Mona, and Aria, but those were all stretches. Her father was living in Delaware, and she highly doubted that he would make the trip up to Rosewood just for a baby shower. Hanna hadn't spoken to Mona in years. Their last interaction was a Spring Break they spent together in Florida, and that was at least two years ago. By the time Hanna had narrowed it down, she was matching name to face. Aria.

She was still incredibly upset with the shorter girl for sharing her news without her permission. Perhaps it wasn't worth the ignored texts and phone calls, and perhaps Hanna shouldn't have blocked her from all of her social media, but she was right to be upset. "What's she doing here?" Hanna asked coolly, crossing her arms over her chest. "I don't know. She wasn't invited," Caleb responded, looking at the other couple, suspicious that they might have added another person to the guest list without his approval. "Don't look at me," Toby commented, stepping away from the door. He didn't want anything to do with this. As far as he was concerned, they were just using his house for the party. "Alright, so I might have blanked on this one," Spencer told them, shooting Hanna and apologetic glance. She was so used to inviting everyone to events like these that it was only natural for her to add Aria's contact to the group message. "Aria, maybe you should—" Hanna shook her head and raised a hand. "Let her in."

Caleb and Toby headed back into the living room to entertain the other guests. It seemed as if any time a party included more than just them, things went wrong. Caleb was strongly considering keeping these get-togethers significantly more intimate from now on. Hanna, Spencer, and Aria sat in the kitchen, trying to make sense of things. Well, Aria and Hanna were. Spencer was only there to make sure things didn't get out of hand. So far, it had been established that Aria wouldn't have said anything to her mother if she thought word was going to reach Ashley, and that she was sorry. That was all Hanna needed to hear. "I'm still really upset," the blonde commented, not quite making eye contact with her distant friend. "But I do want to put this behind us."

Aria looked relieved, though she couldn't bring herself to make eye contact with Hanna either. "So do I," she said softly, glancing down at the tiled floor beneath her chair. "You know, Ezra and I really wanted you and Caleb to be in our wedding party." Hanna frowned. "Well, we're sorry we missed it." Aria shook her head and looked up at the blonde. "You didn't... Miss it, I mean. It's coming up in a couple of months." Hanna looked at Aria, and then at Spencer, and then back at Aria. "I don't know." If she was going to be in the wedding party, then she would need to buy a dress, and that sounded incredibly stressful. Then there was the matter of whether or not she would actually be feeling up to it in a couple of months. She was fairly energetic now, but that energy was wavering more and more as the days went by. If it kept up, they would probably have to drag her to the ceremony. Aria looked disappointed, but her expression brightened a bit shortly afterwards. "Well, either way, you're still invited... If you want to be, that is. Invitations officially go out in two weeks."

Hanna nodded, but didn't say anything. Spencer took over the conversation and invited Aria back into the living room to play more shower games with them. It might have made the party a bit more awkward, but at least it would have been better than sitting around Toby's kitchen island making plans that might even be followed through. The three of them headed into the living room, and the sight of the shortest friend was enough to take both Emily and Alison by surprise. "Look who's here," Hanna announced, taking a seat next to Caleb on the couch and gesturing to Aria to sit anywhere else. "It's good to see you again, Aria," Ted said, ever the polite pastor. Ashley nodded in agreement. The other two girls couldn't say much, considering the amount of time they usually spent with their friend. Spencer moved back to the center of the room and announced the next game.


The party ended shortly after that. The guest cut the cake (which was filled with blue vanilla pudding), shared well wishes, and parted ways. Being the guests of honour, Hanna and Caleb were the last ones to leave. "Thanks again, guys," Hanna said, hugging both Toby and Spencer before heading towards the car. "We'll text you once we get home," Caleb added before following his fiance's lead. He couldn't wait to get to the car so that he could ask her what went down between her and Aria. When he left them alone in the foyer, there was hostility, but by the end of the party, it was as if they hadn't had any problems with each other.

"She wants us at her wedding, you know," Hanna told him, as if she had read his mind. "Do you want to go?" he questioned, putting the keys into the ignition and starting on the road back to their house. "I don't know. I guess it could be nice." She still wasn't completely sold on the idea, but she wasn't against it either; the only reason for the lack of certainty was the timing and the wardrobe. "It could be... We could find some inspiration for our wedding." The thought of their own wedding brought a smile to Caleb's face. He couldn't wait for the day when we could call Hanna his wife, even though he knew it was going to be a while before they could even settle on a date. He just wanted to see her in her beautiful gown, with a white veil masking her face just right, promising him and listening to him promise her that they would love each other forever. She felt the same. "That's true."

Thinking about her own wedding made her like the idea just a bit more; enough to make her want to go to Aria's. "She said the invitations were coming out soon, so I guess we'll RSVP as soon as we get ours," she commented, looking over at him. He smiled back at her, but his eyes returned to the road soon afterward. He had already been in one accident on this road this year; he wasn't looking to get into another one. "I feel kind of bad for them," he began, a smirk tugging across his lips. "If we show up, we'll automatically be the best couple there. We're gonna steal their thunder."


Author's note: Two chapters in 24 hours. I'm on a roll again! The next update should come either tomorrow or Tuesday, depending on what I end up doing tomorrow, but I think you're all gonna love it! Let me know what you thought about this, and thanks for reading!