"What is it, honey?" Mom asked, looking quite concerned. I grabbed Tay's hand under the table. He looked at me, I looked at him.
"Oh, come on guys. Beth and I have a movie to catch." Isaac said, somewhat annoyed.
"Isaac, this is more important that any movie, I promise." Taylor said. Isaac rolled his eyes and Beth gave me a highly impatient look.
"I'm pregnant." I finally said. Mainly to Ike and Beth. But the shock hit everyone in the room.
"What?" Mom asked, hoping that she didn't hear what she heard.
"Amy's pregnant." Taylor said, squeezing my hand.
"Oh my God!!!!" Both Care and Beth screamed as they got up and ran to hug me. "That's great!! How far along are you?"
"We don't know yet. We have another doctor's appointment in two days." I said as I hugged them back. Then I let them go and looked at mom & dad, while Ike and Zac were congratulating Taylor. "Mom? Dad? Say something." They both kinda had blank stares on their faces. Then mom got up, patted Dad's shoulder, and made her way over to me.
"I'm gonna be a grandma." she said quietly on her way over . She reached my chair and I stood up. "I'm gonna be a grandma!!!!" she yelled excitedly as she pulled me into a huge hug. ~I think I'll take this as a good sign~ I thought as I hugged her back.
Dad just got up and walked to the kitchen. I looked over at Taylor. He jut shrugged. I took Tay's hand and went into the kitchen.
"Dad?" Taylor asked.
"Jordan Taylor. How could you let this happen? We can't do this. We have interviews to do and a tour to start in five months." Dad said, somewhat angry. I really didn't want to be here for this.
"Dad, the press will have to deal with it and we can still go on tour. Mom travelled with us when she was pregnant with Zoe." Isaac said. He and Zac were by us now. Care & Beth were talking with Mom. I figured that's where I should be. So I slipped over there as I heard dad say:
"Taylor, this won't be good for publicity."
"Screw publicity!!!" Zac yelled, "I think it's great they're having a baby! I'd rather be an unle than an older brother to yet another one of your kids." All of us kinda stopped. We couldn't believe Zac just said that.
"Zac, go to your room." Dad said sternly.
"No, not until you congratulate them."
"Zac, just go upstairs. We'll be up in a minute. Dad doesn't have to congratulate us if he doesn't want to, okay? This is quite a shock for them, y'know. Especially with Amy and I only being 17 and 16." Taylor said.
"Well he doesn't have to be so mean about it!" Zac said, as he went to go upstairs. Isaac, Beth, Leesha and Care followed. Tay and I stayed back to talk to mom, dad and the other kids.
"So this means I'm going to be an aunt?" Jessica asked excitedly.
"Yeah."
"That is SO cool. Y'kow guys, I'm happy you're having a baby. I can't wait." she said.
"Mackie, did you know that meant you'd be an uncle?" Mom asked Mac who was sitting next to her. He shook his head.
"Come here Mac." Taylor said. He came over and climbed into Taylor's lap. "All this means is that Ame's going to have a baby and you can help take care of it because you're someone special in it's life... it's uncle."
"Oh." Mackie said quietly. "Can I still sit in Amy's lap?" Taylor looked over at me.
"Come here honey." I said with open arms. Mac climbed in and I hugged him tight.
"When's it due?" Avery asked. I kinda laughed. Avery looked confused. "What?"
"Nothing Avie. You sounded like you were asking when an assignment was due!" Avie laughed with me. "No we don't know when for sure but we're thinking about August, September."
"Oh, kinda like Tay's song, "Yearbook"." Avie said.
"Y'know I was thinking the exact same thing! Pretty cool huh?" I said as I looked over at Tay and took his hand.
"I think we'll go upstairs now." Taylor said as he got up, picked Mackenzie up off me, took my hand ans we started upstairs.
"Amy, Taylor, wait." Dad called after us. We turned around to face him. He started to walk towards us. He stopped in fron tof us and took my hand. "I'm sorry. And I'd like to say congratulations. And Taylor-- now you really need to take care of her and treat her right."
"I will, Dad." Taylor said, smiling.
"I can't believe I'm gonna be a grandpa!" Dad said as he pulled both Tay and I into a huge hug. "No go upstairs and tell Zac I'm sorry. But, y'know Tay, we still have to talk about the press and touring."
"I know." Taylor said as we ran upstairs. The first place we checked for everyone was the rec room, then Zac and Care's, then Beth and Ike's. Finally we went to our room.
"Why is everyone in our room?" I asked as I walked in.
"Well, "10 Things I Hate About You" is yours and Tay's movie and we wanted to watch it." Zac said.
"And we know how much you guys hate when we take your movies." Isaac said.
"So we decided to watch it in here." Leesha said.
"Ok. Hey, Leesha, do you remember when we watched this in the Theatres?"
"Yeah. We drove like, 80 all the way there so we wouldn't miss it!" She laughed.
"Oh Amy, how about the time we saw it with SADD?" Beth asked.
"How could I forget?" I looked over at the guys. "We were in such a strange mood. We were playing 'Quote a Hanson'" I said, as both Beth and I cracked up.
"What the hell is 'Quote a Hanson'?" Zac asked, laughing.
"Well we were riding on the bus and we always talk about you guys but that day we were being really strange and we just starte quoting you guys." Beth said.
"You know, like from your movies and interviews." I said.
"Amy is so good at Zac impressions!" Beth said.
"Really? Like what?" Zac asked. Now he was REALLY interested in the story.
"Nothing." I said, now embarassed.
"Oh come on Amy." Beth whined.
"Yeah Amy, you always good recite things perfectly." Leesha said.
"It was different then! They weren't there!"
"Okay okay, honey, you don't have to. Now let's just sit down and watch the movie." Taylor said. We watched "10 Things..." with everyone-- wishing they weren't there.
"Hey Leesha, can I talk to you?" I asked, as the credits started to roll.
"Sure." She said, getting up. "What's up?"
"Well, Tay and I kinda wanted..." ~God I felt so dumb for asking this-- she's my guest!~ I thought.
"Amy, I can sleep in the Rec Room, it's no problem." Alicia said.
"Well, I just felt so dumb asking." I said.
"Trust me, Amy, I understand. Just let me grab my stuff so I don't wake you in the morning." We went back to my room-- we were talking in the hall.
"Good night, Leesha." I said, hugging her.
"G'night." She said as I closed the door and ran to Taylor. "I love you." I said between kisses. We stumbled over to the bed with our lips still attached.
"I love you too." Taylor said as he gently laid downon the bed, pulling me to him. "Are you sure we can still do this?" He asked as I pulled off my shirt.
"Yes, I'm sure." I said as I kissed him again and nibbled his ear.
"Okay." He whispered. It felt so good to make love with him again. Especially after this fight. He came with more force that ever before. I Don't know why. I did too. We fell asleep wrapped in each other's arms like usual but what was different was when he wrapped his arms around me, he kept his hand further down, on my stomach. He smiled and said "That's my baby."
Chapter Thirty-nine: "Alicia & Ashley" HOME!