Last Chapter! Enjoy!

"I'm NOT going to work today!" Nick said as he was his girlfriend leaning against the doorframe of the kitchen. She had dark bags under her eye's from her lack of sleep, half do to her pregnancy, and half due tot he fact that today is her due date!

"Uh, yeah, you are. Apperently I will be able to feel a little while before when the baby is coming, and trust me... not today." she assured him, patting his shoulder softly, and kissing his lips. "I need coffee, I can't wait until you come out of me so I can drink it again!" he nodded, and kissed her forehead. "Don't worry, I will call Stella and Abby, and Danielle if I need any help. And I will call you if anything mayjor happens." She gave him a tiny smirk.

"Okay hunny. I love you so, so, so, so much!" he told her, giving her an acward hug around her stomach.

"I love you, too!" he kissed her cheek, and walked out the front door, only to be slammed into three girls. He looked at them, all in their PJ's, their long hair tied behind her back. They folded their arms over their chests, and raised an eye-brow. "Oh. hi girls!"

"Going to work on your wife's due date?" Stella asked angerly. Nick nodded slowly after looking backat Macy.

"Um, yeah. You know, becasue you're fiance" he looked at Danielle "and you're boyfriend have the same thing as me. And anyways, Macy kinda convinced me. I tried to talk her out of it, but..." they all looked down at the girl in the doorway, who smiled, and shrugged. "She says that the baby is not coming today. The doctor said that she will be able to tell in advance. But I also heard that all pregnacies are different. It may come very instantly to her."

"Listen, I'm going to be okay, right?" he nodded, and waved to her. "Bye daddy!"

"Bye mommy." the three girls giggled and entered the house. They all made their way to the bedroom, where they sat on Macy's big bed, and popped in the movie, JUNO.

"How fitting." Danielle rolled her eye's, and they all watched the movie.

. . .

A few hours later, they were sitting in a circle, discussing names, when Stella's cell-phone vibrated. Exitedly, she pulled it out, and read it, gasping and slapping her knee. "Me and a friend have one a trip to that new huge mall just West of us!" she squeeled. "But we have to go now... or else we won't get in on time. We have to be there at one."

"And it's 11." Danielle screamed, both girls turned to Macy, who was laughing. Both girls gave her a slight puppy-dog pout, which was waved off by Macy.

"Go on ahead, guys. I'll be fine, guys. If something happens, then I will call dad or so,ething, but then again, nothing will. So see you when you get back, and I will be just like this, K?" the two girls nodded, and gave her a big hug.

"Bye May!" the two girls ran out of the room, and over to their own houses to get changed. Meanwhile, Macy decided to sleep, since she was all alone and absolutly exausted. But beofre she decided to do so, she decided to make sure everything was in place for the new arrival. She pored herself a glass of water, and made her way up the stairs and into the light pink and brown nursery. It was a rainy-day outside, so the windows were wet, giving everything a beautiful glow. There was a large brown, wooden crib in the middle of the room, with brown and pink stipe blankets hanging off the sides. The walls were a light pink, and a dainty little chandilire hung at the top of the celing, and mini ones all around the walls. There was a window seat was filled with small pink and brown polka-dotted pillows, and a big cusion to sit on.

"Everything is going perfect, baby." Macy said tenderly as she rubbed her huge stomach. "I can't wait for you're arrival, but good luck, this family is filled with a lot of goofs... and love. I think you will enjoy it." She turned off the light, and went for a 2 1/2 hour nap. Once she woke up, she stood and took one step.

One step of pain.

It was in her lower back, but it still hurt like there was no tomorrow. Just then, the phone wrang. She leaned over painfully, and looked at the caller-id. Private Caller.

"Nick?" she breathed. Private call was his cell phone, so she thought it was him. She just needed to be with him right now.

"No, it's daddy." her father said happily. "Happy due-date! How's everything going?"

"Well, actually dad, I-" she paused when she heard a woman calling a flight for Toronto over the intercom. "Are you at the airport?"

"Yes, I know this is sudden, but I just got called for an emergency buisness trip. It will only be overnight, but I am taking your mother, and the kids are at home with the sitter." finally, the pain subsided and she was able to breath again. "Are you okay?" he asked after hearing the gasping.

"Dad, where are you?" she asked painfully, latting her body relax from the pain it was just in.

"I'm in the tunnel going into the plane, hunny, why?"

"I think... I might... be in labour." she told him slowly. There was a slight tickle on her nose, so she rubbed it, only to find that there was blood on her finger. A nose bleed. "Greeeaaaat."

"Your in WHAT? Okay, we can't turn back now, but I will call you as soon as we land in Toronto. You think you can hold out for a little while longer? Do you want me to call the sitter and bring over the kids? Is Nick there?" he asked in a panick.

"I think I've only had one contraction, but it was very painful and if another one comes in an hour, then I am screwed. Could you call? How far away do you live, an hour? So she should be here witht he kids? And again, no. He and the boys are in a recording session for the day, he won't be home until after dinner. DAMN I screwed up by telling him to go to work today!"

"Yes, honey you did, but everything will be fine, alright? Your mother just phoned the sitter, and she should be there in about an hour. Even if it's a false labour, you will be okay, alright?" Her father asked. "Just a sec honey..." he placed the phone to his chest. "My 18 year old daughter is alone... and in laubour. Give me two more minutes." she heard him yell at a stewardess. "Here's mom..."

"Hi hunny!" she heard her mothers voice on the other end.

"Mom... oh I need you so much right now." Pregnancy harmones... here comes the crying.

"I know, hun. But weather or not we are home before the labour, you are gonna do fantastically! There is no doubt in my mind that you are going to birth a beautiful baby girl. Have I ever told you how proud I am of you? Because I think it's been a while. My dear Macy, I need you to understand that this is going to hurt. It is going to be the most painful thing you ever experiance. But trust me, when you hold that little girl in your arms, and sit in Nick's arms... you will be so happy. It's the best pain in the world, and you will love it... afterwords." they both giggled softly.

"Thanks mom... I love you."

"I love you, too!" they were forced to hang up. Macy was left sitting on the couch with the glass of water in her hands, breathing stedily. The phone was in her other hand, and she was dialing Nick's number.

"Hello?" another girl answered.

"Ummm... Hi, is Nick there?" Macy asked, a little confused about everything that is going on at the moment.

"No, who's this?" she asked.

"Oh, just someone at the studio. May I take a message?"

"Could you just tell him his nine month pregnant wife is in an emergency, thank you!" she hung up, and instantly got on the phone to Stella.

"Hello?" Stella asked kindly as she strolled through the many racks of clothing.

"Stella? Stella it's Macy. Guess what's happening." She heard things drop on the other line, and a 'what's going on' from Danielle. Stella stayed silent for a few seconds until talking.

"You're kiddin, aren't yah?" Stella asked. "PLEASE tell me you are kidding. We are two hours away from here and you decide to have the thing NOW?" she could hear the two girls bickering in the large mall, something about baby clothes and paying for what they have. "Listen, I don't wanna here it right now, but is Nick with you?"

"Nope, I called his cell-phone and some girl from the studio picked up. My parents are in Toronto, and I know that Abby is in classes at the University. The sitter of Liam and Izzy is on their way, as well as them. So listen, I am so sorry to inturpt your day, but PLEASE! You're neice I think may be born and thats really all I can think about, and I need someone other than a four year old, and a one year old. But they won't be any help. But please..."

"Don't need to say no more. We will be there in... two hours. Yeah. Uggg... Macy you promised."

"I'm sorry!" she yelled. "But PLEASE I ma totally phycing myself out here. You can yell at me if it's a false later, but right now..."

"K, we will be there. Bye Mace." Macy tired to call Nick another 6 times, each time that girl answered, saying that she would tell him, every time she never did... or so she thinks. In the mean time, Macy was rocking in the rocking chair in the nursery, when she got that overwhelming pain in her back, it moved down and over a bit, and it was a little more intense as she clenched the arms of her chair with her life. It lasted for about 2 long minutes until she was able to breath normally again. She recoded her time from her watch.

56 minutes.

The doorbell rang only seconds later, and a perky young blond was at the door, holding Izzy and Liam. She was so relieved to see her brother and sister, and even (kinda) better, some company. "Hi, you must be the sitter." Macy said, extending her arm. The young girl put Liam down to run inside, and shook Macy's hand.

"I'm Tiffany." the blond said. Every lock of her hair was curled to perfection, and she was wearing sweat-pants and a t-shirt.

"Thank you so much for coming over." Macy thanked. She didn't look a day over 17, but her beauty still shawn. Macy got a better look at her T-shirt, which had a school logo on it, and a small "cheerleader" sign underneath it.

"It's really no problem. My dad and your dad are very good friends, so I would do anything for your family. Our two families are actually very close, and I've heard alot about you. And if I may say, yes, you are pregnant." Macy laughed lightly.

"I am..."

"Getting pretty close to your due date?"

"Nope..." Macy said, leaning over to stretch out a back cramp. "On it. In it... and trust me... I am living it."

"Your in labour?"

"Yeup." Macy said, breathing properly now. "It's very painful. How old are you anyway?"

"17. And you are...?" Tiffany asked.

"19. This is my my first child... obviously." the two girls laughed. "So, can you stay? Would you like to stay?"

"Sure." Tiffany answered happily.

"Can I get you something to drink?" Macy asked, walking to the kitchen.

"No no no. You sit and stay calm, just relax. Is there anybody I can call in the meantime? Here, I will get you a drink. Where's Nick?" Macy assumed that she knew about Nick either from the web, or more likly because of the family.

"No, no I'm fine. Everything will be okay. Stella and Danielle will be home soo-" just then the front door flew open, and the two friends came running in, their hands were filled with big bags. "STELLA! DANIELLE!" Macy yelled, and waddled over to her friends.

"OH! MACY WHERE'S THE BABY?" Stella asked in a panic. She was given a weird look by all three other girls. "Right... Where's Nick?"

"I've been trying to reach him for over an hour right now, The recordning studio is only like, 20 minutes away, I think that if he would have gotten the call, he would be home by now." Macy said angerly. "Everytime I call, some girl answers him phonw saying that she will deliver him the message right away. Like I said, even if this is a false labour, I. NEED NICK!" she cried.

"I know honey, I know." Stella soothed, then looked at the other blond. "Who are you?

"My name is Tiffany. My family is good friends with the Misa's family. Her little brother and my little sister go to the same pre-school, dance, and skate club. They are both really into the arts." Tiffany explained while shaking Stella's hand. "And you are Stella I am assuming?"

"Yes I am, and that is Danielle over there, and we, meaning the two of us, Danielle and I, are going to go hunt down Nick, Joe and Kevin. Tiffany, it was really nice to meet you, please stay with Macy for a little while until we get back, and then... Oh! It's Liam!" she cooed as the little boy jumped into her arms. "Hi Liam!"

"Hi Stella!" she kissed his cheek.

"And where's Lizzy?" they pointed to the small pen in the corner of the room where the small girl was sleeping.

"Awww, I'll leave her to sleep. But c'mon Danielle, we will be back momentarily." the two girls ran out of the house, and drove 20 minutes over to the studio. They showed their ID's to the security guards, who eventually let them by, and ran into the studio. Just from a glance, Stella could tell that Nick was not his normal self, even a little distracted. A beach-blond girl in the corner of the room looked up, and gasped.

"Uh-oh." she said silently, and stood up.

"Stella, Danielle? What are you doing here? Nick asked, running out of the studio. "And why are you out of breath? Is Macy alright?"

"Yeah... Macy is... well... nine months pregnant all alone in her house in an emergency, calling you over, and over and over, every time this girl answers saying that she would pass on the message, but never does." everyone looked over to the girl in the corner.

"Tahts insane. The only other girl here... is..." everyone looked over to her. "Penny?"

"PENNY?" the two girls screamed. "WHAT THE HELL WOULD YOU TRUST PENNY WITH YOUR CELL PHONE?" Stella continued. "You know that she has always hated Macy, and has been in love with you. And you know that she would do anything to sabatoge your relationship with your wife. But there is no time for arguing now, you need to get home, like, PRONTO!" Nick angerly grabbed the phone from Penny's hands and gave her a look.

"We won't be talking later." Nick growled, and ran out, followed by the rest of the group but Penny, who was left in tears.

It didn't talke them long to drive home, going over the speed limit the entire time. Once they all walked through the door, they saw Tiffany sitting on the couch, cradling Izzy and watching cartoons with Liam, who was chatting away. Right away, they were introduced before Joe or Kevin could freak out about Macy already giving birth and becoming a blond. "Where is she?" Nick asked.

"She's upstairs." everyone charged to the stairs and went up until she continued. "In the bathtub." everyone backed down ecxept for Nick.

"Maybe we should all just leave the parent's to be alon for a while to give them some time to prepare. Tiffany, do you wanna take the kids to my house for a while?" Stella suggested. Tiffany nodded, and gathered her stuff, handing Izzy to Danielle. "Call us if you need anything, or want us to come back."

"Okay, bye guys." Nick said calmly and walked up the stairs.

"Oh, Nick?" Tiffany yelled, Nick peeked his head around the corner to see the blond standing alone at the bottom of the stairs. "Her contractions went from 50 minutes apart to 20."

"WHAT?"

"Yeah, the process is going fast, calm her." She said, before leaving the house. Nick turned towards their room, here she was hunched over her dresser, gasping for air. Nick ran as fast as he could over to her side, pulling her close to him.

"Shhhh.. it's okay Macy, I'm here now. It's me. Calm down, okay? We got to be calm. This is all happening now." he soothed her calmly. She let out a few shakey breaths, and looked into his eye's. A smile broke out onto her lips. She tried to say his name, but they came out in murmers. "I am so sorry I didn't know sooner. Joe had run into Penny, and they talked and he invited her down to the studio for the day. I told her that she had one job, listen to the phone and if it was Macy, to let me know right away. I'm not allowed to bring cell-phones in their, so I thought it would be better than nothing, I guess it wasn't."

"It's okay." she said clearer now. The tears were goign away, and her eye's were on the stopwatch in her hands. "17:31. They're getting shorter Nick"

"I know, I know. Why don't you calm yourself down and go get into the bathtub. I'll be in there in a second." she nodded in agreement, and walked into the bathroom as Nick got into sweatpants and a white tank-top/undershirt. He walked it to see that she was trying to settle into the large tub, that was filled with bubbles so all he could see was her head and shoulders. With a slight laugh, he walked next to her and pulled up the stool they had at the side, and sat next to her. He held her hand as they let the thunder roar from above, each-time startling Macy. After about 10 minutes, Macy finally spoke.

"Feel." she stated simply. She took the hand she was holding and placed it on her sudsy, golden tummy, where not they could see that the baby girl had her feet popping the skin off her stomach. Nick laughed, and used one of his fingers to push it back in. "Are you ready?"

"Completely. We are going to be great parents, I am so exited to welcome a baby into the world. What about your parents? Why aren't they here?"

"They called me at the begining of the labour, telling me that they won't be here until tomorrow, due to one of my daddy's business trips." She explained.

"What about my parents?" both her eye's widened as they realized who she should have called as soon as her parents couldn't come, even if they could. "Don't worry, I got it." he went into the bedroom to grab the house phone. "Yeah, hi mom. It's Nick."

"Hi Nick." Sandy called, Nick put the phone on speaker.

"So do you remember what day it is today?" he asked.

"I know it has something to do with the little baby who's picture is hanging on my fridge right now." she giggled.

"Yeah, it's Macy's due date." Nick said happily.

"I'm so glad the day has finally come! How is my little girl doing?"

"It's Macy's due date."

"Yeah, I know hunny."

"What happens on due dates?"

"Oh My Gosh..."

"Yeah."

"Well is there anything I can do?"

"Her parents are out of town, and everything is happening really fast. Could you and dad just stay near the phone when we are ready to get to the hospital?" He asked his mother.

"Of course dear. Does she need anything?"

"I'm fine for now, but thanks Mrs. Lucas." Macy piped in.

"Alrighty then, good luck dear."

"Thank you." they hung up the phone and put all of his attention back on Macy. Suddenly, her eye's squeezed shut and she was clutching onto the side o the tub so hard her nuckles were going white. She moaned and groaned loudly.

"Okay, breath... breath... I know it hurts now btu its all gonna be worth it. Think, the little baby is trying to come out, take its breaths of fresh air. And you are going to be the one who makes it all happen. Breath... breath..."

"I AM! Check the stopwatch." he ran into the bedroom and grabbed the small pink timer.

"14:58."

"Shorter once again." she said, again being able to breath but still in a lot of pain.

"Here, Mace. Raise your knee's." he whispered to her gently. Slowly, he saw her too knee's raise from the surface of the water. "Now close your eye's and lean forwards as much as you can." slowly, she leaned forward. "Now breath." he moved the stool so it was behind her in the tub, and he could see her golden back moving up and down slowly, he rubbed it softly with body cream, and he could feel her starting to relax. "There we go." after 5 minutes, they pulled out of that position and he kissed her lips.

"Thank you." she said kindly. "I think I should get out of here though, help me?" he leaned forward, and she wrapped her hands around his upper tourso. Using all of his mucles, he pulled her body out of the water with ease. "Thanks, I think I got it from here." he handed her a towel and she wrapped it around herself.

"Your welcome. Have I told you how much I love you?" he asked her.

"Not latley, but we have been busy, and I know, so don't worry about it." he smiled at her and kissed her lips once more.

"Here you go." he handed her a beautiful red silk houserobe, and they walked into the nursery, sitting down on the rocking chair. "You sit here, and relax, okay? I am going to go pack for the hospital."

"A good husband would have had that done weeks ago."

"A good wife wouldn't critsize her husband."

"Then I must me a bad wife,"

"Touche." he ran out of the room, and into the bedroom to pack.

3 hours later, her contractions were at 7, and she was finally ready to go see her friends, leaving the home for the last time without a child. The dog followed thm to the door, obviously not wanting her owners to leave her. "It's okay Elice." Macy said softly. "We will be back soon. It may be a little different around here, though." the dog barked a few times, making Macy giggle. "Ready to leave, Nick?"

"Of course." he said, flicking off the rest of the lights. "Ready to be a mommy?"

"Yeup. Ready to be a daddy?"

"Yes!" they pet the dog once more, and closed the door behind them, Nick put everything in the car before they walked over to Joe and Stella's. They were greeted at the door by Stella. They were soaking wet from the pouring ran that was still coming down.

"Come in, come in! Geeze, we were so worried about you. You were gone for about 4 hours!" Stella explained.

"Yeah, it was a slow process."she said as she sat on the large single shair on the side of all the other couches everybody was occupying. "So what have you guys been doing?"

"To tell you the truth, we have been baby-proofing our houses." Danielle said proudly, cuddling closer to Kevin, who kissed her temple.

"Yeah, I mean there is now nothing chokable on the floor, no poisons, exposed outlets. And today, Dani and I picked out blankets and pens and stuff for when the little girl need to be baby sat. In both our houses, the spare bedroom is right next to our rooms, so we have converted the spares into like, mini nurseries except everything is portable, unlike your nursery." Stella explained happily.

"Wow, that's amazing. I don't think she is allowed to leave the house for a month, but once that is done, we will be sore and tured and we will need a break in general. Which reminds me, Nick, we need a bigger bed." Macy complained painfully.

"Why?" Nick asked, but never got an answer before she started groaning in pain. "Contration?" Macy nodded, and doubled over. Nick pressed the little button on the stop-watch to stop the time. "Macy, that was 5:06 and the doctor said to come in between 7 and 10 seconds." Nick said concernerd. "We should go to the hospital!" he tried extending his hand, but it was slapped away by her. "Macy... we have waited for this since the last 9 months! We don't have to wait any longer. Lets go! We have a lot of good people here who will be at your side the entire time, but you need to come to the hospital!"

"No!" she yelled. "The doctor also said that we should wait while the contrations are at 5 minutes for about an hour. I think we should follow that." Macy stated matter-of-factly.

"Yes, but this has been happening too fast. Macy, pleae, just humor me!"

"No." she stated. Everyone just gave up on trying and focused on the T.V. for another 2 contrations where the time got down to 4:01. "I need to pee." she said, and hoisted herself out of the chair, refusing Nick's help. Every step for her was now stiff, painful, and felt a lot different. She made it up to the tiolet and sat down just in time to feel a large gush of water flow out of her, and she instantly knew. "Oh my god." she finsihed her business, and exited the bathroom, went to the rain, and called for her husband, who was quickly by her side. "We have a little situation..." she whispered.

"What is it?" Nick asked.

"Umm... My water broke..." she said acwardly. Instantly, Nick grabbed her, but not before she could clench onto the rainling. "No... no... I am not going!" she yelled.

"JOE! KEVIN! I NEED A LITTLE HELP UP HERE!" Nick yelled down to his brother's. "Macy, you are 4 minutes apart, your water just broke, and your still not going to the hospital? Uh, I don't think so." the boys arrived beside her. "Macy's water just broke, and she is refusing to cooperate. I've got her here, you just pry her hands off. There isn't much she can do with a 7 pound object coming out of her underside." the boys did eventually get her very strong hands off the railing, and they were now all helping to carry her down the stairs.

"No! No! Seriously guys? No, this is not happening right now! Let me go! It can wait!" Macy yelled.

"Macy, hun. You aren't thinking straight right now. Trust the people who love you, this is the right thing, ctually, it was the right thing a while ago. Your water broke in my toilet, can't that be a sign?" Stella asked. Macy shook her head. "Fine. Boys, put her in the backseat of the SUV and go with ehr, Dani and I will call your parents and follow behind."

"Try to keep up." Joe winked at her, and gave her a kiss on the lips.

"Don't kill my best friend." She yelled back at him.

The drive there seemed to take forever for them, although Joe was going about 10miles over the speed limit. He was just informed of all the speeding ticket they had recived from the drives earlier, but none yet on this ride. Joe was still drinving like a maniac and Kevin was right there in the front seat, holding onto the handlebar at the top as his life depended on it. Nick and Macy sat in the back, Nick trying to calm his crying wife. "Hey, what ever happened to brave Macy?" Nick asked soothingly.

"She went away!" Macy cried. "Nick, i can't do this! It hurts way to much!"

"Yes you can! Because the outcome is going to be beautiful! So what we had to drag you down the stairs, so what you are more stubborn than a concreat post, you are going to do this so well, and we are going to go home after this is all done, and you are going to sit there and watch her sleep, while I do all the housework and wait on you. Doesn't that sound like fun?" she nodded.

"I'm still so scared though! Nick what if something happen's during labour? What if that something is really, really, really bad?" she stressed.

"There are so many medical people on scene that you would be rushed into an emergency C-Section and they will get it out that way!" Nick told her.

"And what if they can't save her?" she cried.

"Macy quit thinking the worst!" Joe yelled. "You live for this, and now all your hard work is finally paying off. Nothing is going to go wrong, and you are going to be so proud after it all, that nothing is going to bring you off that cloud. Amazing mother, you are going to be an amazing mother!" Macy thanked him, and put her head on the window, gazing out over the pink sky, and letting the breeze of Kevin's open window hit her face.

They finally got her to the hospital as soon as the sun went down. They parked in the overnight parking, and Kevin went to go grab a wheelchair. They wheeled her in and got her emitted and ina room in no time. Usually there are strict visiting rules in that ofice, but Kevin, Nick and Joe went to do a little... compermise. They agreed that if they all went down after their caughter's birth into the sick kid area to greet all the kids, then they would allow visitors all night, and cut off any other traffic. They were also allowed access to the mini waiting room outside the door.

"She is 7cm" the Dr. informed the group. "There is an estimated time of about an hour at the speed she's going until she can start pushing. In the mean time we gave her an epidural and an oxygen mask to get some air into her and the blood moving a little bit more."

"May I go see her?" Nick asked.

"Of course." Nick walked right in to see his beautiful wife asleep. It was 9, and she was tired and hadn't slept in days. She was probably in pure peace at the moment, so all he could do was smile. An announcment over the intercom jolted her awake, but as soon as she sw his face, she too broke into a smile.

"Hey there!" she said happily. "I wanted to thank you for prying me off that railing. If it weren't for you, I probably still would have been there." she laughed.

"It's fine. Hey, it's what I'm here for." he laughed.

"That, and to get her when she cries at night." She told him.

"That too. I don't mind though." she smiled, and he kissed her hand. "See, everything is going great. You are in no more pain, the babie's in the right position, you are 7cm dialated and growing. There is nothing to be worried about." she smiled and nodded. "Oh, and guess what I got you." he pulled out one of those new phones with the video chat.

"Nick, thank you so much! I love these things! I've always wanted one!" she squeeled. "Thank you so much!"

"Now that's not even the best part! I programmed all your families names into it, and look who's first... and online." she looked at the top of her list to see the one and only name(s) that she wanted to see.

"Mom and dad..." she said, and looked up at him. "You gave them one, too?" he nodded. She pressed their name, and soon they were visable. "Mommy! Daddy!" she heled the thing above her head looking down.

"Hi hunny. How's everything going?" Her mom asked.

"Okay I guess. It's long."

"Yeah, I know. Nick treating you well?" Her dad asked.

"Yup." Nick said, coming into the view. "Hi Mr and Mrs Misa!"

"Nick, you know the rules, it's mom and dad." Macy's mom said sternly. "And you are beemingly nervous. Don't be, everything will turn out fine. Take some breaths and know that you are not doing this alone. But it is late, if we don't talk again before she is born, good luck guys. Have 'Fun'"

"Bye mom, bye dad!" they said, and they hung up. "So there... we are ready?"

"Yes." she assured, and closed her eye's to rest once again. "One more hour..."

An hour came, and she was 9cm. There was a rush of energy around the group as they all sat around in the small room, literally forcing ice chips down Macy's throat. Macy, on the other hand, was exausted, and uncomforatble, and needed to get the baby out si she could get just ONE good night sleep. She kept on giving into sleep, but was awaked by a doctor coming into measure her, or check up on her. There was no progerss at all, though. The doctor assured them not to fret, and that everything was going okay.

Soon, it was 11, then 12, then 1 then 2am. The energy level had died down, and they were all asleep either in the room or the waiting room. All, except for Nick who spent his hours pacing the hall's, talking with other famous friends, but not letting them know what was going on. Finally, their doctor wakled by, and stopped when he saw him. "Are you a nervous father-to-be?" he asked.

"Yes, most definatly." he said with a shakey breath.

"Well, the nurse just alerted me that Macy is awake, and is feeling extreame discomfort. I am going to need to measure her again, but I am pretty sure it's time to push. Say goodbye to one chapter of your life, and hello to another." A large smile broke out over Nick's face. "We need 2 people to hold onto her hands to squeeze. I guess that you want one of them, so who get's the other?" he asked while walking. They arrived at the waiting room where everyone was still crashed somewhere.

"Joe." Nick said. A week ago, he had dumped a glass of water down his shirt, and Nick was gonna make him pay. "And he get's right hand." Nick woke everyone up, and told them the happy news while the Dr went in to do a prep with some nurses around. He told Joe that he wanted him in the room with them.

"Okay man, do what you need to do. Good luck in there!" Kevin said, and slunched more in his seat.

"Yeah, no worries. We wil be right here when you guys are done. Good luck!" Stella added. At this point, Sandy and Tom were there, too with Frankie. They were keeping Macy's parents informed since Macy was a little pre-occupied. With one last hug and kiss from his parents, Nick was off into the room, followed by Joe. There were two seats beside the bed, one on the left and one on the right.

"You get the right side." Nick said casually, sitting down on her left, and loking at Macy. Her eye's were closed with big bags under them, her head was rolled to face his, and she had sweat on her forehear and the sides of her head. Her hair was in clumps everywhere, sprawled all over the pillow her head now lay on. Her legs were propped on these large plastic tube things with no tops. She was chewing slowly on ice cubes, but all of her energy was was gone. She was absolutly drained, and from one glance, he knew it. She finally opened her eye's, and gave him a weak smile.

"Hey..." she said weakly. "Is it time?"

"Yeah." he nodded. He, too, was exausted and couldn't wait to get home with his new daughter and wife. "Joe is here, too. He is just gonna hold your other hand." she looked over to Joe, who looked obviously very nervous as well. Nick leaned closer to her and whispered "you bowl with your right, right hunny?" she just nodded. "Good." The doctor, dressed in blue, came around and sat infront of her, and smiled.

"So, are we ready to push?" she nodded slowly. "What we are gonna do is count to ten. In that time, you have to push as hard as humanly possible. Then, I am going to coult backwards from ten, and that will be your recovery time, got it?" she nodded once more along with Joe and Nick. "OKay, and... 1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10" he counted as she pushed. Her whole face scrunched up and her messy brown hair fell into her face. Once it was over, Joe pulled his arm away gasping.

"YOUR GRIP IS SO STRONG!" he yelped.

"Bowling." she breathed. "Oh god that hurt so much."

"See, we are one push closer." Nick said happily.

"1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10" he counted. "10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1" That ended up going on another 11 times. As most of the labour, the birthing process was very, very quick. Only about 7 minutes, with more than a 10 second break, more about a minute. They were all alerted when they could start to see things. "I can see the head... the shoulders... the chest... once it got to the belly, one of the nurses placed a plastic wrap on her stomach. "And here... we... go!" a screaming baby, covered in gooey liqued was placed on her stomach. Macy immidiently burst into a fit of tears and giggles to see her daughter for the first time. Nick on the other hand was in awe as well as Joe, who just sat their with his jaw to the ground and big popping eye's. "Mr. Lucas, would you like to cut the ambilical cord?" he was handed a pair of medal surgical siscors.

"Will it hurt her?" he asked. The doctor shook his head. Nick leaned down and cut the long cord connecting his daughter to her mother.

"Congratulations." almost instantly the squirming baby was taken away to get checked, and Nick bent down to Macy's level.

"You did it!" he said exitedly, and kissed her lips passionatly. "We are parents!"

"No, we did it! And yes we are, daddy." she giggled. They both gazed at Joe, who was in a state of shock. He was looking between the crying baby, to them, to his swolen wrist. "You okay there, bud?" he looked at the glow in both their faces, the proud new parents.

"First of all, congratulations on the new baby. Second of all... Macy, bowling? Dude I think you broke my hand!"

"Okay, first off, I am obviously not a dude because a dude would not be able to handle the pain I was just in. And secondly, after we are done here, I will probably go into recovery, so you should go get you're hand checked." he nodded. "But wait around just a bit, you will get to hold her."

"Awesome!" he said. That moment, a nurse brought Macy her daughter to hold in her arms. Once again, she was in tears.

"Hi little lady. Hi! Welcome to the world, it's mommy! And that's uncle Joe." Macy said happily. Nick, as manly as he wanted to seem, let a tear slip down his cheek as he touched the cheek of his little baby girl. She looked so fradgile and so tiny that he was afraid to break her. "Here, go see daddy." she slowly and carefully passed her up to Nick, who's eye's were anything but dry as he held his little angel in his arms so protectivly.

"We did it! We are holding our daughter." Nick said as he noticed Joe slipped into the bathroom. "Should I go tell the others?"

"Do me a favor and tie my hair back for me, please?" she asked kindly. She was handed the little girl and Nick went behind her, wrapping her hair into a pony tail. She gave him a smile as he walked out into the hallway. Joe came out of the washroom seconds later with a questioning expression on his face. She just smiled and pointed to the door, where he went and followed his brother out. Nick still had happy tears in his eye's and a huge smile on his face as he walked out into his beholding friends.

"7lbs, 11onc. She is about a foot long, has some brown hair, and looks a lot like Macy." he told them all. Stella was the first one to jump up and hug him, followed by his parents, brothers and Danielle.

"That's wonderful! May we go see her?" Sandy asked anxiously. He nodded, and opened the door, letting everyone in and surrounding the bed. "Hey girlie." Macy looked up to see everyone around her, and smiled. She pointed her daughter up at an angle, and pulled the little soft blanket she had made a few months ago down a little bit so she could see her better.

"She is very healthy." Macy said proudly. "Do you want to know her name?"

"YES!" they all said exitedly. Macy glanced at Nick before saying it, and he gave her a heart-warming smile.

"Anika. Anika Taylor Lucas." she said, looking down at little Anika sitting in her arms.

"I love that name!" Stella said happily. Everybody got a chance to hold her until one of the nurses went to go do some more thuural scans, knowing Macy had cander, they knew it was rare that the cancer would spread to her, but still possible. During that time, Macy and Nick slept and slept and slept on that tiny little hospital bed, resting in each-other's arms. They were so proud of each-other, and it really showed. The other's had gone home for the morning to sleep, agreeing to come back that afternoon when if everything went well, they could take her home. it was 10 when they both finally awoke from their deep sleep after hearing Macy's new phone ring loudly. She snatched it off her side table and put it up to her ear.

"Hello?" she answered.

"Baby! Hi!" her mother's voice beamed. "Did you have her yet?"

"Yes we did?" her mother squeeled loudly.

"REALLY? HOW DID IT GO?"

"Really smoothly, actually. Everything was fast, and she was heavy, and-" she was cut of by a beep. She looked at the screen to see that the phone was low battery. "I gotta go, but are you home?"

"No... our flight was delayed. We should be home this afternoon, though." she explained.

"And that's when we will be home. Come over?"

"Yeah, foresure! Bye hun."

"Bye!"

Nick leaned down, and kissed her neck softly, making the hair on the back of her neck stand up. It was amazing that after allt his time, he still knew how to drive her mad, and it still did. She turned around to face him, and hugged him close, something that she hadn't been able to do in a long time. "Hey, how does it feel waking up and not being pregnant?" he asked, chuckling lightly.

"Amazing! And knowing that even now, she is in a room right down the hall is even more phenominal!" she said. "Speaking of, wanna go see her?" he nodded, and the two got out of the bed, and walked down the hall to the nursery. "Anika Lucas," the lady at the desk checked the list, nodded and let them pass. They passed many crinb labels until they came up to one that said her name, and theirs. They sanitized their hands at the door, so they were able to just go in and pick her up from her crib. It was still cloudy and rainy outside, but it didn't matter because they had her. "Hey Anika."

"Hey Anika!" Nick whispered to her. "Guess what, you need to go home today!"

"Yeah daddy, I am so exited!" Macy said, faking Anika's voice. "Wanna go sign out?"

"Foresure. But we sould put her back and come pick her up later." she agreed, putting her back in her crib. "It's hard to leave her, though."

"I know... it's amazing how attatched to her we are, even though we have bearly seen her for a totaly of 20 minutes!"

They went back into the room, where the doctor explained everything to them. Anika was completely and totalyl healthy, and was ready to go home, as well as Macy. He told them some great tips for new parents, and helped her with things that would be good for her and the new baby. After about an hour, they had Anika strapped into the backseat, with Macy with her, and Nick was in the front driving, and they were on their way home for the first time ever.

That afternoon at around 4, everyone was sitting around in Nic and Macy's living room. At the moment, Kevin had Anika, who was dressed in purple fottie pajama's that Stella had made the day she had found out Macy was pregnant. Macy was cuddling with the dog, when Macy's parents ran in with huge sile's on their faces. Their was a large, cute meet and greet for about 20 minutes, when Macy had to go to the bathroom. She walked up the stairs, and stopped by the nursery. The rocking chair was sat in, the change-table had been used. The crib had beet sat in (only momentarily) but still. And then she turned around to see everyone sitting around in the living room... all 12 of them (including Izzy and Liam) and she smiled once again. She found herself doing that a lot lately.

As one chapter of her life ended, a new one began, and there was one main thing in her mind now...

What the heck to do now?

I am beaming right now! I am done (honest to god, thanks to snoupy and all of her very persistant emails) Sorry this wasn't up sooner, but it was hard to write and I have been very busy! So I guess as you know, there will be a sequal. The fist chapter will be up on Saturday or Sunday. Either way, it will be then. Also, I have a project that I have been working on since March, and it is "Mary's Song, Oh My My My" and it is a total story that I wrote, and there are going to be chapters for every verse (yes, the story is THAT long) and I will finish it all up first (I am very close) then I will just post a chapter a day. It should even out to be about 14-16 chapters.

Here comes my thank you's (as usual). First off, my reviews ALWAYS put a smile on my face. Thank you so much to each and every one of you who pushed that little button and mady my day. And that goes for everyone who alerted me, or added me to favorite author. It means a lot! And thank you to all the people who sent in their suggestions to me in either a review or a PM for this story. I did get idea's off those idea's, and if I haven't used your idea's in the story yet, I will! Thanks for everyone who is a new reader, and the people who have been here since the begining. (Notice this story has changed quite a bit =P)

So, now that we have THAT established, onto my well known rant (you have to have seen it coming with all the drama thats been going on).

Okay... NACYYYYYYYYYYYY! Well, I must say (yes, I am going scene-to-scene here) the first scene was ADORIBLE! Just them sitting their so close... hhis hand on her knee/thigh, holding hands, watching... fishing? Anyways, and then when she puts her head in his shoulder, and he smiles at her with his little dimple... aweeeee! Just so sweet! And then stupid them had to go ruin it. I must say that it was one of my favorite scene's on the whole history of the show because for once in their life it was just... them! The original 5! I always love the first scene's the most though, because they never have anything to do with the episode, but they are still too cute. I watched (stupidly) a Wasabi Story first, so in that episode it caught me off guard when he called her adorible, or sweety, or when she strutted out of the kitchen in the first scene together with the "sexy" sway of her hips. I was very confused, and even more so when she said she was a beginer at golf. I knew something must be going on, because in the Episode Pizza Girl, Nick walks right up to her while she is hauling a huge bag of golf clubs and almost knocks him in the head with one (I love watching this episode now. Just to see how rude he was to her, and it's such a change from then to now. This episode, AND keepin' It Real. She faints while saying "Date A Jonas... Kiss A Jonas..." Oh, anf the kiss between them is foresure because I saw a video of her talking about how comfortable it was) Wow, I just got sidetracked. Whatever.

I couldn't even watch the end of that episode when he sings to her, because I was in a HUGE fit of giggles. No joke, it was so cute. And I love the poolside scene, too. It just is such a natural thing to have his arma round her. And OH! The episode that airs on the dish this Sunday will be the one where the "YOU RUINED MY LIFE" came from. Just saying =D Oh, and did I mention how exited I am to see the one where they are on a boat trip? I AM!

Oh, and one more thing, do you have any idea how I would have KILLED to have that role of Kiesha (I forgot her name =( ) in the secret? I mean, I would have KILLLLLLLLEEEDD to be the one to get Nick and Macy to admit their feelings towards each-other to others. Run around screaming "love doves" and "Nick love's Macy" and get hugged my Stella, Macy AND Nick, and Get hugged and such by Nick. My fantasy role!

Anyways, thanks again! And thanks to my Best Friend Anika who let me use her name in my story. =D

Okay, well I guess I should go now... I will see you when I post my next big thing!

xoxo

Mols