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Shocking Surprise

"Oh honey, not tonight, I'm so tired." Jackie told Nick as he started kissing her neck.

"Why are you so tired?" He asked.

"Because the kids wore me out today." She responded.

Nick chuckled, he didn't doubt that, they were adorable but a handful none the less.

He gave up and went to sleep himself.

The next afternoon Nick and Jackie were enjoying a pizza on the patio, soaking up the nice weather since it wasn't so scalding hot outside anymore.

The kids were hanging out at Jackie's parent's house, playing in the new sandbox Jackie's parents had just gotten them.

"Want some more iced tea?" Nick asked as he grabbed his glass so he could go inside and get more.

"Please." Jackie answered.

He stood up, grabbed her glass as well, and then headed into the house to get some more.

He soon returned with two full glasses in his hands. As he was sitting back down he noticed something and it stunned him. He sat back down next to Jackie.

"Jacks?"

"Yeah?" She answered as she looked up at him, she noticed the serious expression on his face.

"What's wrong Nicky?" She asked him.

"Are you pregnant?"

"Are you nuts?" She answered back.

"I'm serious, are you?"

"No, I had a tubal ligation, I know I've put on a few pounds, I'll go on a diet when the kids go back to school and hopefully I'll…"

"No Jacks, I didn't ask that because I think you've gained weight, I asked because, well there is something that I've never told you."

"What's that?"

"Well, I've noticed that when you're pregnant you get this red dot, about the size of a penny behind your left ear, I've noticed it will all of your pregnancies, it goes away after you have the baby, It's hard to see because you usually wear your hair down but today you have your hair in a ponytail and, well the dot there."

"Are you in the beginning stages of heat stroke, should I take you to the doctor?" She asked genuinely concerned, he sounded like a complete lunatic.

"I'm being completely serious."

"Nicky, I had my tubes tied, that means no more babies." She responded with a slight smile.

"I know that but still, and weren't you just saying last night how tired you are?"

"It was nearly midnight and I'd been chasing after eight kids all day, do you really blame me for being exhausted?"

"No, not at all."

She smiled at him triumphantly as if she'd won this ridiculous argument.

"And you've been eating quite a bit of ice cream, which you crave when you're pregnant."

"It's summer in Vegas, it helps me cool off and I love ice cream when I'm not pregnant too, which could help explain why I've put on a few pounds." She said with a grin.

He smiled, shrugged, and then dropped the discussion.

A couple hours later Jackie was in the bathroom, she had every door to her medicine cabinet open, tilting her head to one side trying to see a red dot. Nick was right, there was one.

"He's insane, I'm sure it's just a bug bite or something" She mumbled to herself.

"What are ya doin?" Nick asked.

She jumped so hard she nearly fell over.

"Nothing." She mumbled.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." He said before walking down the hall with a smile on his face, he knew very well what she was going, even if she didn't want to admit it.

"Oh forget it, I'm going to settle this nonsense once and for all." She said to herself out loud.

She dug in the bottom drawer of her bathroom cupboard and pulled out a home pregnancy test.

She took it and then waited the three minutes, she couldn't wait till the results came, she was going to give Nick a ton of good natured teasing.

Nick was downstairs in the living room eating some chips, drinking some iced tea and enjoying the quiet when all of a sudden the quiet was shattered by a blood curdling scream in the master bathroom.

TBC…