wow! i think this is the quickest i've updated so far! too bad it's the last chapter :-( but you guys don't have to worry, i already have five-ish chapters of the sequel written! i might post the first chapter later today, but i can't think of a title for it yet and i don't wanna just call it "sequel to what's in a name?" you know? so if you guys have any suggestions for a title, feel free to leave them in the reviews that i just know you all are going to leave! well, i hope you guys like this chapter, and thanks to everyone who's read this whole thing and especially thanks to the people who have reviewed!

x.x Lo

oh yea, i obviously don't own joanne or maureen, but i do own alexa, and i semi-own grace and amanda, but only they know what i mean by that.

"I hate to interrupt your, uh, bonding time right now, but Maureen and I would like Alexa to come in and see Grace," I said as I leaned against the wall with my arms crossed over my chest, trying to keep a serious look on my face despite the hilarious look of shock on Alexa's. "So, Alexa, are you going to introduce me to your friend?"

"Oh, um, yea. Joanne, this is Amanda, Amanda that's Joanne," Alexa said as she climbed off of Amanda's lap and back into her own chair. "We, um, didn't think that Maureen would have had the baby this soon. I guess we were wrong."

"Yea, you were. Do you want to come and see Grace and Maureen now, or do you want to wait until tomorrow morning?" I asked her, still leaning against the door frame.

"Sure, but can Amanda come? I don't want to make her wait out here alone."

I looked at the blonde sitting in the chair next to Alexa before uncrossing my arms as I moved from my position against the wall. "Sure, I don't see why not, I mean, she's practically family," I added, with a smirk on my face.

Alexa gave me a death glare as she stood up and led Amanda out of the waiting room. As she followed me to Maureen's room she kicked the back of my leg, and as I turned around to look at her she mouthed "I'm gonna kill you." "Not until after we talk" I mouthed back.

When we got back to the room I immediately went over to Maureen and took Grace from her. As I held her I looked down and just couldn't believe how beautiful she was. She had Maureen's stunning baby blue eyes and my tiny pudgy nose. Her skin was a light brown, a perfect mix of Maureen and I. I went over and showed her to Alexa and Amanda, and after much protesting from me I allowed Alexa to hold her. After a few minutes she handed her off to Amanda who held her until she began to cry. She handed her back to me and I took her to Maureen so that she could nurse her.

Amanda sat down in the chair next to Maureen's bed and began telling her about a new play that she was in at her high school. Maureen had been in a play with Amanda a few years before we met, and they had stayed in touch ever since. When Maureen decided that Alexa needed to make friends, she took her with her to go see one of Amanda's plays, and they had been best friends ever since. Well, at least I thought that's all that they were and from what I could tell I was pretty sure that was all that Maureen thought they were, too. Amanda and Maureen seemed to be really into their conversation, so I decided to take that opportunity to talk to Alexa. I walked over to where she was standing in the corner of the room and just stood there, not quite sure what to say.

"What?" she asked me after finally noticing that I was standing there.

"We need to talk." I leaned up against the counter opposite her and crossed my arms over my chest.

"Ok." She leaned against the wall across from me and crossed her arms over her chest. "What do you want to know?"

"I just wanted to know why you never told Maureen or I that you were a lesbian."

"It never came up," she said, more to the floor than to me. Suddenly she looked up at me, the death glare from earlier on her face once again. "Why? Do you have a problem with it or something?"

"What? Of course I don't! It just would have been nice to know so that I wouldn't have had to find out the way that I did."

"Pookie, can you come over here? They're about to take Grace to the nursery," Maureen called from her bed.

"Well," I said to Alexa "I'd better get over there before she throws a fit."

once again, i hope you guys liked it, and don't forget to review! i think i got this chapter up a lot faster because i got more reviews for the last chapter than i have for any other chapter, so if i get just as many or even more the sequel may be up sooner!