Jemma's Pov:

I spent the rest of my suspension hanging at the house. Except when I went to the dentist to fix my tooth and with Tina to her check up. 

The baby was healthy and she's due a month before me.

I spent most of the time thinking and decided that with the baby on the way it makes more sense for me to graduate early.

Yesterday was my first day back and I talked to Sully about scheduling the exams. I'll take them the day we get out for Christmas break and the results will be in by the end of our first week back after the holidays.

I called all Michael's and my family and invited them to dinner tonight. We're gonna break the big news all at once to everyone.

Tina picked me up today because she wanted to go get her nails done after school before she meets Jessica and Dereck.

 Michael insisted that he had the food covered and I should just relax and get pampered. Which I didn't bother arguing against.

Tina is worried about making a good impression on my in laws and decided she isn't going to tell them about the baby until Skip gets back in a week.

 We haven't told Skip about our baby either. We're gonna surprise him when he comes home.

School passed by as usual. At the end of Michael's class we decided we were gonna ditch the rest of the day and start our Christmas shopping.

We spent about 4 hours at the mall. I got everyone done but Michael. I couldn't figure out what to get him.

We gave up for the day and went to the salon. Tina got her hair trimmed and nails done. I got my nails and toes done. By the time we got back to my apartment everyone was already there.

We made the rounds of greetings and I introduced Tina to Michael's parents. His sister and her husband couldn't make it but sent their love.

We sat down and everyone began to chat. I looked around the table and felt completely overwhelmed by the amount of people that are here and love us.

I glanced at Michael and nodded. He got up and went to go get our wedding box. When he came back I moved up beside him.

He tapped his wine glass and got every ones attention.

"You're all probably wondering why we called y'all here. So I'll cut straight to the point." He looked at me and smiled.

I took over. "As y'all know we went to Vegas last weekend. I asked Michael to marry me and he did."

The table sat in silence then one by one people started firing questions. Michael held up his hand to silence them.

"Yes we're married. No we weren't too drunk to remember and yes we're still planning the other wedding. We just wanted to do one for ourselves but we got plenty of pictures and mugs and caps from Elvis." He answered with a big grin.

He started to pass them out and Pop's, Danny and Dereck all busted out laughing and teasing him about our themed wedding.

"You know it's true love when you agree to get married by a sparkly vampire impersonator." Pops joked.

Michael sat down and pulled me into his lap. He whispered "Now for the baby bomb! I bet my mom is gonna cry and try to kidnap you."

I snickered. "I bet Susan is going to get more excited then your mom." I whispered back.

He ran his hand down my flat stomach and linked his fingers through mine. "Lets see." He sent me a wink and kissed my cheek.

"There's more!" I called out getting every ones attention once again.

"We're pregnant!" We called out together.

We spent the next hour answering question after question about the baby. No one had a single bad thing to say much to my relief.

In fact Jessica suggested that since I was graduating early we move the wedding up. Susan jumped in and I could tell they were gonna become good friends. All in all it was a good night.

After everyone left we cuddled on the couch. Michael cleared his throat then turned to face me. "You know I was thinking-" he began.

I slanted a glance at him. "Uh oh. Did you hurt your brain?" I taunted playfully rubbing his head.

He tickled me. "No as a matter of fact I didn't."

I kissed his neck and settled next to him with my feet in his lap.

He continued where he left of before tickling me. "You're winter formal is coming up."

I nodded and he smiled brightly. "Did you know that it's a masked ball?"

I shook my head. "No I haven't been paying attention when we have council meetings. My hot teacher get's me all distracted so I just sign whatever he hands me." I shrugged but sent him a devilish smirk.

He laughed and kissed my neck. "I happen to have talked the principle into giving me the event off. So can I be your date?"

I jumped on him.

"Hell yeah you can! Awe I get to take my husband to the dance! You realize that will be our first time dancing as husband and wife." I giggled and planted kisses all over his face.

"I was hoping you'd say that because I already talked to Skip and he's taking Tina. We figured you girls would wanna double. So we only hired one limo. But if you want, we can get our own limo."

I laughed. "No I think it'd be a blast to go as a group. Have I told you what a wonderful and amazing husband you are? How much I love you?"

"No but the feelings mutual Sweetheart. There's also um something else I wanted to talk to you about." His voice changed from playful to serious.

"Oh I see, you were buttering me up weren't you. Now you're gonna be like oh by the way you're magically failing my classes so you better get your cute little ass a tutor." I mocked his teacher's persona with a fake serious look and tone and a quirk of my eyebrow and finished it off by crossing my arms and huffing a disappointed sigh.

He laughed and kissed the tip of my nose. "No Love, it's nothing bad. I was just thinking about us being married and having Squishy. I wanted to get your thoughts on buying a house."

"Sure, that makes sense. I'll pay half and you can pay half."

He shook his head. "It'll be my wedding present to you. I want you to save your money."

I groaned. "Michael I'm not gonna let you buy me a house. You save your money and I'll split it."

He ran a hand through his hair. "Jems my money is your money. We're married so everything that I own is yours."

"Yeah but a nice house is gonna cost at least $200,000. That's too much for you to spend. Besides like you just said we're married so what's mine is yours. Works both ways bucko. So my money is your money too."

He sighed and walked over to his mail. He picked up an envelope and handed it to me.

"I was planning on telling you about this when I took you to the bank to add your name to my account. Just promise not to get mad."

"Why would looking at your bank statement make me mad?"

He rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "Hormones?"

I rolled my eyes and opened the letter. Holy crap...

"Michael." I was temporarily speechless.

He shook his head. "I didn't lie to you, I'm not a millionaire."

I snorted. "Yeah you're about 8 cents shy of that."

I sighed and thought for a second. Then laughed and shook my head at him. "You know you're dumb right?"

That caught him off guard. "How so?" He asked defensively crossing his arms.

I laughed. "Sex-Nip, a person with that kind of money should have gotten a prenup."

He shook his head. "No need to get one when we'll be married forever." He stated firmly

I kissed him. "You really are too sweet."

"So back to what I was saying. I thought we could start looking at houses and hopefully get one before the wedding. That way we can have it all fixed up before Squishy comes home."

"We can start looking online so we get an idea of what we want." I suggested resting my head on his shoulder.

I yawned and Michael chuckled. "Lets go to bed Love."

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Michael spent the weekend teaching me things I'd need to know for my Calculus exam. His class and Economics were the two courses I had to take tests for. Then I'd have enough credits to leave school.

Monday rolled around way too quickly and I groaned when I tried zipping up my favorite skinny jeans and they got stuck.

 "Ughh I'm getting fat already!" I whined with a petulant foot stomp.

Michael walked out of the bathroom in just a towel and I felt my hormones go buck wild.

"Love, there's no way you're fat." He said slipping his arms around me and nibbling my ear.

"Yeah see these things that wont zip up, they're called skinny jeans. Since they don't fit..... Hello what is the opposite of skinny?"

He laughed and ran his hands down my body to rest on my lower abdomen.

"You are not fat. You're beautiful. AND you'll be even more beautiful WHEN you begin to show, which you aren't so stop freaking out. Those pants were just way too tight. I hated when you wore those. Made it damn near impossible for me to concentrate in class."

I giggled and placed my hands on his. "Why do you think I loved them so much." I winked and walked to the closet to grab a pair of low slung hip huggers. I had no problem with that zipper. I put on my top and walked out.

I watched Michael shave and finish his morning routine.

"Tina and I are going shopping for our dresses this afternoon. It'll probably take a few hours because she wants to go ahead and pick up some maternity clothes. So don't worry about dinner we'll probably just pick something up."

"Have fun and while you're out you should pick up a few more of those crotchless panties I love so much." He winked and swatted my butt.

"I could just stop wearing panties." I purred pulling the edge of the towel where it was tucked around his hips so he was naked. Then stepped back when he tried to kiss me.

He groaned. "That's not nice. Now I'm naked and thanks to that little taunt I'm hard. Every time I see you in school I'm gonna wonder if you're going commando."

I laughed. "Sucks to be you."

I got to school and met up with Tina. She had a smile so big I'm surprised her cheeks didn't crack. "What's up?"

"Skip's coming home tomorrow! I talked to him a few minutes ago and he said he got to leave a few days early and he's taking me to the dance!"

She did a little happy dance and I giggled. "Lets get this day over with so we can go shopping!" I cheered.

The day passed by pretty quickly and before I knew it we were at lunch. We walked up to the line and I stood there for a second until I decided I wanted fries with mustard, relish and cheese.

Tina got some weird mash up that made me want to gag.

We sat down and were chatting with our group. They all knew that Tina was pregnant but not me. Robby stole a glance at my food and rolled his eyes.

He slung his arm over my shoulder and whispered in my ear so no one heard. "Jems if you eat crap like that it's only a matter of time before everyone finds out."

I shrugged my shoulders. "I cant help it. That's what I wanted. Besides it's not like I'm hiding my pregnancy. It just hasn't come up. But I had trouble buttoning my pants this morning so it's only a matter of time before people figure it out."

Unfortunately Carrie had told her friends that Tina was pregnant and it was spread around the school. I looked around and noticed that a few people were staring so flipped them off. 

The bell rang and we went to class.

Before I knew it I was walking into the mall with Tina. "I just cant believe you wont be there next semester. It's gonna suck!"

I laughed and nudged her playfully.

"I know and at first it seemed like a great option. Michael and I wouldn't have to hide. But I'm kinda gonna miss going to school."

"You could always stay." She shrugged.

"I have my exams in 2 days. It's too late to cancel. Plus our wedding is February first. I'm amazed we were able to keep it quiet this long. What happens when I look like a beached whale? People will start asking questions."

"I still say it sucks but you know I'll support you with whatever you decide. I'll just have to come over more often."

I laughed. "So have you told your parents yet?"

She shook her head no. "Skip wanted to wait so he could be with me. You were right by the way. About him just being in shock. We've talked and got some things figured out. It's hard with the limited amount of time he has on the phone though."

I hugged her. "I know baby cakes. But y'all have a few weeks over the holidays and then Michael said Skip should only be gone for a month."

We found dresses and both picked up a few outfits from Motherhood. I was pleasantly surprised that they had nice clothes.

We also made a stop to a store called memories and picked up pregnancy scrapbooks. They were pretty cool, and already set up. All you had to do was fill in details like cravings and weekly weight gain.

The next day school was boring. I got excused from all my classes to cram for my exams tomorrow. So I spent the day in the library studying.

I was going to go hang with Michael during lunch but he'd texted me during fourth period that something had come up and he had to leave to take care of it.

Skip called and said he was in town but he was gonna stop by to surprise Tina and spend some time with her.

I decided to pick up a snack on the way home.

I walked in with my chocolate malt and went straight to the kitchen. Michael was on his laptop looking at a real estate website.

He looked up. "Hey love how was your day?"

"It was good. Just unbelievably boring and my husband ditched me during lunch. " I called digging around in the cabinets.

I huffed. "Babe didn't we have some Tabasco sauce?"

He walked passed me and opened the frig. He handed it to me and laughed when I popped the lid off my malt and poured some in.

"Wanna taste?"

He looked at it for a second then took a big gulp. He gaged and squeezed his eyes shut.

"That is just plain nasty!"

I took a big gulped and moaned happily. "Whatever, Squishy seems to like it!"

I handed him a coke to get the taste out and plopped down on the chair he was sitting in.

"I saved a few that I thought might be a good fit for our family. See if ya like any of them."

He flicked through about 4 until I found one that I fell in love with. I turned to him and he smiled.

"I'd hoped you liked that one. It's my favorite. It's two floors plus the attic has been turned into a loft. There's 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. A living room and den. It has an industrial kitchen. The backyard is huge and has a privacy fence around it. There is a pool and hot tub and the house has a wrap around porch on both levels."

"Michael it's amazing! Can we set up an appointment to look at it?"

He laughed awkwardly. "Promise you won't get mad?"

I rolled my eyes "Spill mister."

"So I found this one last night while you were shopping with Tina and I called this morning. There were already a couple offers so I had to act fast. I got in touch with the owners and offered them a bit more then the full amount in cash today."

He dug in his pockets and pulled out a set of keys. "The paperwork has already been finalized but I stipulated that I wanted a month grace period in case I changed my mind or my wife didn't like it. So yeah technically we own a house that you've never been to but If you don't like it. I'll return it and we can keep looking." He rushed out nervously.

Hmm time to mess with him. "So what you're telling me is... You bought the house we're supposed to spend the rest of our lives and raise our children in without even asking my opinion? I thought we were supposed to be partners. As in equal halves and make decisions like this together.." I shook my head and looked down like I was disappointed.

"Awe babe I swear your opinion is important. I just didn't want to mess with your study time and a decision had to be made or we'd lose it. I figured you'd love it. It has everything you said you wanted for our home." He sounded so worried I decided to let him off the hook.

"You're just lucky I love it!" I leaned up and kissed him and grabbed the keys. "Lets go see our house!"

We pulled up and Michael took me on a tour. It was just as beautiful as it was online.

"You know, it's good luck to christen every room in the house before we move in right?" I said slipping my heels off and unzipping my skirt.

"Well we wouldn't want any bad luck would we. Better get started, there's a lot of rooms." He cooed yanking his shirt up and over his head.

A few rooms and couple of hours later we lay panting in a sweaty heap on the kitchen floor.

"Who knew buying a house could be so much fun." Michael joked.

I giggled and sat up. "How about taking a swim in our new pool?"

"Only if we stay naked." Michael murmured against my lips, lifting me up and carrying me to our back yard.