Oh look, chapter 12! This means I don't suck! HUZZAH!!!

The floor of the living room was a mess with bright colored paper, ribbons, bows, and tags. The smell of pine and gingerbread sanitized the air as a young girl with a childish face, braided pigtails, a chicken perched on her head, and an abdomen the size of an extremely large beach ball sat in the middle of the floor, helping her father wrap some presents.

Ching enjoyed this time of year, and she especially loved wrapping up presents for her father's younger students, seeing their eyes light up at the sight of them; she remembered being the same way when she was little, and hoped her unborn child would be the same way.

Her father could see the lightness in her face, remembering how she was when she was little, he giggled slightly as his daughter looked up, with a slight hint of confusion hit her face.

"What are you laughing at, daddy?" she asked as Chang cleared his throat.

"I was just remembering." He replied, Ching cocked her head to the side, "About what?" She asked as her father chuckled.

"I'm pretty sure you don't remember, but there was a time when you were about 5 and we were wrapping presents for my students and there were these little bonbons with pink frosting. They were wrapped in shinny, clear paper and you thought they were the most gorgeous things in the world that you snuck a few into your pockets when I wasn't looking. Then on Christmas day I gave you a box and you blushed a deep red claiming they were too pretty to eat, then a few months later I found the box along with the pieces you stole under your mattress."

Ching laughed before replying, "I remembered that! Those were the most horrid tasting chocolates I had ever eaten! Why would I forget something like that?" they both laughed again as Ching placed her hand on her stomach.

"They were gorgeous and delicious on the outside, but had a horrid coconut filling inside." She giggled a bit before looking back to her work.

"I have something for you." Her father said, his daughter looked up, as he cleared his throat, "I was going to wait, but since the baby will be here soon I need your opinion." He helped her up and led her to a doorway.

"Daddy." Ching began, "What are we doing in front of your office?"

"Not my office." He opened the door and Ching gasped, it had transformed from a desk with paperwork to a little padded room, with a small crib, a rocking chair, a changing table, baby toys, and some bottles.

"D-daddy." She began, tears formed in her eyes as she hugged him, "Thank you. This is wonderful! I'm sure Kalyca will like it." Her father gave a confused look as Ching cleared her throat, "That's the name I want to give the baby. I know for a fact it's a girl!"

"Did you check?" He asked as his daughter giggled.

"No. I just…know it's going to be a girl. It's like this strong feeling…"

Her father blinked a few times before asking, "Have you picked out a boy name?"

"No…not really…" His daughter replied, he nodded, "You best pick a boy name as well. Just to be on the safe side." With that, he left the mother to be to view the room some more.

"Hmm…I don't know any really good boy names…I don't think it will matter though, because you're a girl, I just know it!"

With that, the mother-to-be turned off the light and walked down the hall into her room.

It was around 3 AM when she woke up to a sharp pain in her belly, she got up and walked around her room, believing it was a false contraction. Instead of going away or easing, it became worse. She had to get her father.

She opened the door and flipped his light on instantly waking him up, though he was still a little drowsy.

"Daddy?" She began; he rubbed his eyes as she continued, "I think the baby's ready." He blinked a few times before his eyes went wide as he flipped the blankets off him. He quickly pulled his pajamas off and pulled some regular clothes on him.

"I'll call the police station and inform Abyo! Get downstairs! I'll be there momentarily and we'll leave!" she walked downstairs in a bit of pain, doing the breathing exercise the doctor taught her.

It took about two minutes before her father was downstairs.

"Bruce and Abyo are going to meet us at the hospital, I also told the doctor you were coming. Oh and we're going to have to be careful. The roads are icy." Ching nodded as he took her hand and helped her in the car. She began to breathe even more extent. The pain was too much to bear.

In addition, indeed the roads were icy not to mention snowy, in fact, it was VERY snowy, and it was a surprise they made it to the hospital without crashing, and a HUGE surprise to see Bruce, Lili, Abyo, Mai, and Eliza waiting for them.

Ching smiled a bit at Eliza asleep in Abyo's arms, he was such a good big brother! Maybe he would be a wonderful father as well!

The doctor walked in and smiled, her ruby red lipstick shone with a bit of the gloss she applied on top.

"Are you ready, Miss Ching?" She asked as Ching nodded before the doctor continued, "The father can come too if you want him to and if he wants to." They both looked at Abyo as he nodded and gave Eliza to their older sister.

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The delivery room smelled of fresh cut flowers and had a calm soothing surrounding. Ching did her breathing exercises as Abyo paced back and forth, waiting for the doctor; she came in several minutes later.

"Ok, Ching." She began, pulling on surgical gloves, "We're going to break the amniotic fluid and we'll begin with the delivery in a few hours."

"H-how long is a few hours?" Ching asked, the doctor smiled, "Three to five." She answered as Ching felt a liquid substance and more pain as the mother-to-be began breathing even more extreme than before.

"I'll be back momentarily. Everything is going smoothly." She said and with that she left the room, Abyo followed her.

"Hey uh…" the doctor stopped and looked at the attractive boy, "How's it REALLY going?" He asked, the doctor smiled.

"It's going fine. Go back with her, I promise the delivery will go smoothly." The father-to-be nodded as he slowly walked into the room where the mother of his child was.

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Her face was red with pain as the doctor looked in between her legs; Abyo just looked into her screaming mouth.

"I don't see it, doc!" He said as the doctor looked up giving him a questionable look.

"Uh…" the doctor was about to say something, but shook her head, he'll figure it out in a few moments.

"I see the head!" She exclaimed, Abyo jumped and continued looking in Ching's mouth. "Where?!? Where?!?" He asked in excitement as the doctor sighed.

"Come down here next to me." She told him as the father-to-be walked next to the doctor, as she pointed at the bubble shape coming out of Ching's vaginal.

"What is THAT?!?" he asked as the doctor looked up at him and blinked.

"That's uh…that's the baby…ONE more push, Ching!" and with the last bit of her strength the baby emerged with a loud wail.

"I don't understand." Abyo began, "How come it came out that way and not out of the mouth?" The doctor blinked a few times.

"You uh…do know how the baby came to be right?"

"Yeah. I kissed her lips." The doctor blinked again.

"Uh…no…babies don't come to be because you kiss someone's lips, they come to be when a man places his penis into the woman's vaginal."

"Really?!?" He was a bit shocked, "I avoided kissing her because I was afraid it would lead to twins!"

The doctor shook her head as she gave the newly wrapped baby to the new mother.

"Congratulations! It's a boy!" the new mother smiled, the tiny infant looked exactly like his father, she unwrapped his bundle to look at his little body, the new father's eyes widened a bit when he saw his son's stomach and then, the doctor placed an organ looking thing on the table. Abyo raced out of the delivery room and burst through the waiting room.

"Ching and the baby are going to die!" he exclaimed as Chang gasped with tears pouring from his eyes, he raced out of the room; Bruce, Lili, and Mei looked at him, mouths gaped open and their eyes held worry.

"What's wrong, son? Over." His father asked as Abyo ruffled his hair a bit.

"Well the baby came out, but it has this worm attached to it, then they pulled out an organ of Ching's and the worm was also attached to it."

"A worm?" his mother asked as he nodded, tears pouring from his eyes.

"It was a boy too!" he exclaimed as his family followed him towards the delivery room. Chang was already inside, tears bursting from his eyes, as Ching smiled at him. Abyo and his family walked in the room, Ching smiled at them as well.

"Isn't he cute, Abyo? He looks just like you!" Abyo's eyes just stung with tears.

"How long do you two have?" he asked, the new mother just raised her eyebrow.

"What?" she asked as the new father continued, "I saw the worm attached to our son's stomach and I saw one of your organs with the worm attached to it." The new mother blinked a few times before sighing.

"Abyo." She began, "What you saw…that wasn't a worm or an organ of mine…what you saw was the umbilical cord and the placenta."

"The who of the what now?" he asked as everyone else sighed in relief, hopefully the doctor will explain to the new father about the use of the placenta and the cord.

After a long, LONG lesson about the inside of the womb and the need for the "worm and organ", the new father's face was a bit of a deep red, mostly from embarrassment of not being told about the birds and the bees. His mother had a very angry voice as she nagged his father for not telling him about sex and hormones and how his body was changing.

The new baby opened his eyes and cried a bit, everyone went silent.

"I bet your upset since you don't have a name." The new mother cooed, placing her index finger in between the newborn's palm as he grasped it firmly, making funny faces at his surroundings.

"We should name him, Abyo Jr.!" The new father exclaimed so loud that everyone gave him strange stares, he just blushed at the stares and cleared his throat, "Or uh…we uh…could name him uh…" he deliberated for a while before stuttering "Pi-Ping?"

The new mother placed her finger on her lip and smiled, everyone else in the family raised their eyebrows.

"Ping?" Chang asked that as everyone else shrugged, "What kind of a name is Ping?" but his daughter interrupted his lecture with a burst of joy, "I love it!" she stroked his soft cheek, "It fits him completely! What do you think, Ping?" the newborn just cooed and wriggled a bit inside of his bundles causing his mother to giggles;

"Ping it is." She said rocking the newborn back and forth.

Wow that took a long LONG time… now it is time to R&R and I will have the next chappie soon…or not…whatever