Claudia and Nathan were standing in Claudia's parents house hallway, they were doing like family dinner thing. Claudia's mum and dad loved these things. Claudia turned to face Nathan.

"I am sorry you had to come to this. I know you are probably nervous about state." Claudia smiled weakly as she leaned on the door frame. Josie and Tom were making dinner in the kitchen. Haley and Jack were also there but they were in the living room. Nathan walked over to Claudia, because he was on the other side of the hallway, and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"I never got to do these things, so I love this." Nathan smiled before he kissed Claudia on the lips. Before they knew it, the front door swung open and there stood Karen and Dan. Claudia and Nathan pulled away and looked at them in shock.

"Hi." Karen laughed and Claudia waved to her. Josie walked in grinning at Karen.

"You in the kitchen now." Josie grinned as she pointed to Karen. Karen rolled her eyes.

"Great to you see you too." Karen laughed as she walked past Josie. Josie playfully slapped Karen on the bum as she walked past. They all looked at Dan awkwardly.

"So you must be Nathan's dad?" Josie greeted Dan as she held out a hand for him. She had flour on her face and she was wearing an apron, she tried to look like a stereotypical mom.

"Bugger." Tom shouted from the kitchen and Claudia just laughed.

"It's nice to meet you, I am Josie. Claudia's mum and that was my husband in the kitchen." Josie explained as her and Dan shook hands.

"Dan Scott, I am so glad I could make it and meet Claudia's parents." Dan replied, surprisingly not falsely.

"Well come on in, I hope you like a roast because that is what we have attempted to make." Josie explained as she walked off into the kitchen. Dan followed after her and as he did he smiled at the teenage married couple. Claudia shook her head at Nathan.

"I am so sorry he is here. I didn't know he was coming." Claudia explained but Nathan just shook his head, he was actually more worried that Claudia found out about the Loan Shark.

"It's okay. I can just ignore him and show him what real families are like." Nathan replied before him and Claudia kissed, but of course the front door opened again.

"Come on, can I not kiss my husband?" Claudia groaned as Skills and Lucas laughed from the doorway.

"Sweet mama Stone invited us." Skills grinned as he walked past the teenage couple. Lucas looked around the hallway.

"Been a while since I have been here." Lucas smiled as he looked at the photo frames scattered down the hallway.

"I promise I won't fall down the stairs this time." Claudia joked and Nathan raised an eyebrow at her. "Let's just say that Kings and Queens got really rough." Claudia laughed as Haley stood at the door way.

"Claudia, we are honestly surprised that you are still alive today considering the amount of times you have hurt yourself just in this hallway." Haley joked and Claudia rolled her eyes smiling. "You hit your head off of that door. She ran straight into it." Haley explained as she pointed to the front door. Nathan laughed as he slung his arm over Claudia. Lucas pointed to the chest of drawers.

"She stubbed her toe on the chest of drawers and got a cast." Lucas explained and Haley pointed to the chair in the corner.

"Claudia did a handstand on the chair and fell off." Haley listed and Claudia sighed.

"Nathan, did you know we have a living room as well maybe we should go there?" Claudia said rhetorically as she walked away from her two best friends who were laughing. Nathan leaned into Claudia's ear.

"I would prefer the bedroom." He smirked and Claudia turned to face him.

"Down boy." She joked as she sat down on the couch beside her brother and opposite Dan. All they could hear was Josie and Tom dropping pots and pans whilst Karen laughed. "Two minutes." Claudia smiled as she walked into the kitchen. Lucas walked into the living room with Haley to see Dan. He looked shocked before he sat down beside Nathan, they both looked straight at their dad.

"Mum, can I talk to you?" Claudia asked pointing the backyard. Josie nodded her head as they walked off into the backyard.

"What's up sweetie?" Josie asked smiling, Claudia looked at her wide eyes.

"Why is Dan here?" Claudia asked shocked. "You do you know that Nathan isn't the biggest fan of him, right?" Claudia asked confused and Josie sighed.

"I know, I know." Josie sighed. "But Karen said that he was changing and she has been spending time with him more. Also, I have never met Dan, I want to know who he is considering his son married my daughter." Josie explained and Claudia looked at her sternly.

"You knew what Nathan used to be like, surely you should of known that his dad was worse." Claudia exclaimed in a hushed tone so people would of not been able to hear her. Josie walked over to the backyard door and opened it.

"Nathan changed, maybe he has too?" Josie replied before she walked into the kitchen. Claudia thought to herself before she followed after her mum.

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They were all sitting around the dinner table eating, Claudia was in between her dad and Nathan. Tom looked over at Dan.

"Dan, did you know that Nathan and I sometimes play basketball?" Tom asked and Dan looked over at Nathan.

"No I did not." Dan replied trying to be civil, he obviously felt hurt and replaced. Of course, Tom didn't understand that. Nathan felt a little bit bad.

"You should be proud of your son because he is one hell of a guy and a basketball player." Tom smiled looking over at Nathan.

"Thanks Mr Stone." Nathan smiled and Tom shook his head.

"You know it's Tom." Tom said and Claudia smiled to herself because that was how she knew that Tom truly liked Nathan.

"Mr Stone what about me, dawg?" Skills asked and Claudia laughed alongside the teenagers.

"Skills you flirt with my wife." Tom replied and Skills nodded his head. Claudia looked over at their family piano, it was old and tattered but it still was amazing.

"You would play on that piano every minute of every day." Josie smiled over at Claudia who turned her attention to her mom. Jack nodded his head.

"Even when you were bloody awful." Jack joked and Claudia rolled her eyes.

"Stick to the song writing, we all know I am the singer." Claudia replied back. Karen nodded her head.

"I remember one time Lucas, Haley and Claudia were playing in the cafe when our Cafe Piano was being delivered." Karen started off saying, Dan looked straight at Karen. "Claudia looked at it with her big blue eyes." Karen reminsiced and Claudia smiled down at the ground. "She was in love with it, you could tell. So when Lucas and Haley went to play on the roof Claudia walked over to the piano and began to play ABC on the piano." Karen continued. "She never knew I was listening to her play." Karen finished smiling at Claudia.

"I didn't like playing in front of people." Claudia admitted and Nathan looked at the piano and back to her.

"Play now." He smirked and Claudia shook her head. Deja vû anyone? Josie clapped her hands excitably.

"Come on. Play." Josie grinned and everyone nodded their heads.

"No one really wants to hear me play." Claudia stated but everyone shook their heads. Claudia sighed as she stood up and walked over to the piano. Her and her mom had secretly recorded her song 'Free Me'. Claudia was working on an album. The song 'Free Me' is a fast upbeat song but Claudia was working on it a stripped back version. "You asked for it." Claudia smiled before she began to play and sing as well.

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"You changed it?" Josie asked and Claudia nodded her head.

"We already have the upbeat version, but I wanted to strip it back." Claudia shrugged as she walked back to her seat as everyone clapped their hands.

"I love it, it will be perfect." Josie grinned proudly at her daughter, Josie was watching Claudia happy because she could see Claudia becoming more and more mature as the days went by.

"Is this the album?" Lucas asked and Nathan looked up at Claudia.

"Album?" He asked confused and Claudia smiled at him.

"I wanted to write and record an album before the baby comes and dedicate it to them. I was going to surprise you once my mum and I had finished." Claudia exclaimed as she placed a hand on his leg comfortingly. "But someone had to ruin it." Claudia laughed as she stared pointedly at Lucas.

"Sorry." He muttered and everyone smiled. Nathan smiled at Claudia.

"I love the idea." Nathan replied and Claudia sighed with relief before she hugged into him. Haley looked at everyone.

"You never would of guessed this is what the future would be like." Haley stated and Claudia nodded her head.

"If someone told me I was going to marry Nathan and be pregnant at seventeen I would have laughed so hard in their face." Claudia admitted and Nathan nodded his head in agreement.

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Everyone was sitting in the living room after dinner, Josie decided to get out the baby books. Nathan, Haley, Skills and Lucas were looking through one making fun of Claudia and Jack. Dan and Karen were sitting together speaking. They were looking through baby photos and Karen kept on looking at her own bump.

"You dressed up as a pink princess?" Nathan asked in shock as he looked at old halloween pictures. Claudia slapped his leg playfully as she sat on the floor in between his legs.

"I used to be girly." Claudia admitted, and it was true. Claudia used to be in to everything girly before she went into freshman year and turned into a people hating old soul.

Josie walked in with a marker pen and a sheet of paper. Claudia looked at her weird. Tom followed after smiling.

"So it was a tradition in the Stone family to draw the baby bump on a sheet of paper to see how much it had grown." Josie started off by saying and Claudia sighed. "So Claudia get up here so I can draw your bump." Josie grinned and Nathan helped Claudia up slightly.

"It's not even big." Nathan admitted as she looked at the tiny bump. Josie smiled at him.

"Just you wait Nathan, Claudia will turn big and I mean big." Tom said as he stuck the sheet of paper on the wall. "Josie turned massive and I mean massive. I couldn't believe someone as small as Josie came out. We thought there would have been at least ten other babies." Tom continued laughed and Josie slapped his shoulder.

"Do you want to be alive tomorrow?" Josie asked as she knelt down at the side of Claudia's bump. She drew around it. She had already drawn a line from how far along was Claudia when she just found out Claudia was pregnant.

"Wow." Nathan said in awe as she looked at how much Claudia had grown.

"Told you I was fat." Claudia laughed as she walked into the kitchen to get chocolate. Dan placed his hand on Nathan's shoulders.

"You should be proud, son." Dan said proudly, he was going to have a grandchild. "Congratulations." Dan smiled and Nathan nodded his head.

"Thank you." Nathan said before he walked over to Haley and Lucas. Claudia walked up them with chocolate. Lucas tried to take a bit from her but Claudia slapped his wrist.

"Not a chance." Claudia stated sternly, but just as she said that Nathan took a bit out of the chocolate.

"It's really good, by the way." Nathan teased as his mouth was stuffed with chocolate. Haley and Lucas laughed aloud.

"You are lucky you are hot." Claudia replied back smirking before she ate the chocolate herself. Lucas groaned at them.

"Come on." Lucas groaned as Nathan and Claudia hugged happily.

"It's okay were married." Claudia smirked as she looked up at Nathan. The four of them were having so much fun. Dan looked over at them and smiled. He was wondering if he could try to get back into their lives considering all the bad he had done.
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Dan, Karen, Haley, Lucas and Skills were all standing at the door. They were going home now.

"See you guys later." Claudia smiled as she waved them off.

"Thank you Josie and Tom. It was great meeting you." Dan said truthfully and Claudia looked at him wary. She was buying it, after she thought he had given them money.

"You too, mate." Tom said in his london accent as he shook his hand. Skills licked his lips.

"See you later, Mama Stone." Skills smirked and Tom glared at Skills.

"Right well bye." Tom said before he shut the door on them laughing. Josie opened the door up.

"See you guys soon." She smiled as Karen waved them goodbye. Josie shut the door and looked at Claudia and Nathan.

"It's late, so if you guys want you can stay in Claudia's room." Josie offered and then she looked at Nathan. "Don't worry I am not like those parents that insist you have to sleep in different rooms. You did plant your seed in my daughter stomach." Josie smiled and Claudia face palmed.

"Mum!" She exclaimed.

"What?" Josie asked. "I mean I am not really complaining. I kind of want grandchildren and with Nathan's cute face this child is going to be the cutest baby ever!"Josie shouted as she walked away from the couple. Claudia turned to Nathan.

"Sorry about that, we don't have to stay if you don't want to." Claudia laughed awkwardly and Nathan shook his head.

"It's cool, but I will need to leave early for training at the River Court." Nathan explained as him and Claudia walked up the stairs to Claudia's old room.

"Take me with you so I will get to miss out on breakfast, mum will try to feed me these weird vitamins." Claudia laughed as they walked into the bedroom. 

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I added this onto the beginning of the next episode, but then I decided to make it a chapter on its on because I wrote a lot. So I hope you guys all enjoy. Next chapter will be up tonight.

Mrs N O'Brien