Page 79 of Unlikely to Stay
Breckin shook her head.
“You’re getting married,” Annie added.
Breckin still nodded negatively.
“Burt and Kelda are getting married.”
“You got the principal job at the high school.”
Breckin laughed.“You guys aren’t even close.”
“Then tell us already!”CC said.“The suspense is killing me.”
Breckin took a deep breath and shook out her hands.Apparently this newswasbig.“I didn’t expect it to happen this way and it was totally a surprise but…I’m pregnant.”
CC and Annie stared at their friend in open-mouthed shock.CC was finally the first one to say something.“You’re going to have ababy?”she squeaked.
Breckin rolled her eyes.“No.I’m going to have an alien.Yes, a baby, you doofus!”
Annie grinned.“How far along are you?”
“About four months.”
“Four months?”CC shrieked.“So you totally knew you were pregnant when you first told me about the auction.You little Liar McLiar Face!”
“I had just found out.I just wasn’t ready to say anything yet!And I knew Annie would kill me if you knew first.”
“You’re damn right I would,” Annie said with a nod.“Have you been sick?”
Breckin nodded miserably.“Sosick.I’ve been living off of saltine crackers and Sprite.Luckily, Griff will still hold my hair back when I puke.”
CC smiled.That was what first began Breckin and Griff’s relationship.Breckin had gotten drunk at Griff’s bar over her stupid ex-husband.Griff had taken her home and held her hair back as she puked in the holly bushes under the window of her house.
“Have you told anyone else?”
“Nope.I wanted you guys to be the first to know.Other than Griff, of course.”
“What does he think?”Annie asked.
“He’s already talking to my belly every single night.And playing him or her Eagles and Metallic songs.Says he wants to get the baby used togoodmusic before he or she gets addicted to Justin Bieber or Beyoncé.”
CC laughed.“Like Metallica is good music.”
Breckin laughed along with her.“I know.But it’s so cute, him leaning next to my belly and telling the baby all about how he’s going to take him or her fishing, to get their first tattoo, and to buy their first mini-bike.”
CC grinned at the picture in her head.Tattooed, muscled, bearded Griffin Stephens was going to be the gentlest, best daddy in the entire world.“You know a little girl is going to have him wrapped around her finger, right?”
Breckin rolled her eyes and sighed.“Oh, I know.That’s why I’m hoping for a boy.”
“Have you thought of any names yet?”
“Not really anything set in stone, although we do like Grayson or Baylor for a boy and Bellamy or Gwendolyn for a girl.Call her Bella or Gwen.That way, they’ll have the first letter of one of our names.”
“I think that’s perfect,” CC said.She was so excited for her friend.Breckin deserved all the happiness she could get.
“You know that this means, right?”Annie said.
“What?”