Two weeks later.

"Baby, I'm here!" Jessica shouts as she walks into Gabriella's apartment.

"I'm in the bathroom!"

"Okay well I'm ready!"

"And I'm puking, hold on!" She says in an irritated voice.

"Oh Gabriella!  Mommy's coming, honey!"

Jessica sat Willow down on the ground and ran to the bathroom to comfort her daughter.

"It's okay baby, Mommy's here. Let it all out.." She says holding her hair and rubbing her back.

"This is yucky, Mamacita!" Gabriella cries.

"I know, honey! It'll be okay."

Finally after Gabriella emptied her stomach she stood up and went to brush her teeth.

"Morning sickness is a bitch, isn't it?" Jessica sighs.

"Yeah.. one thing I absolutely despise is throwing up, and now that's all I do!"

"Oh but honey, it's so worth it. Trust me." Jessica smiles and rubs her daughter's tummy.

"I know. I just keep trying to keep my mind on the amazing prize I'll get after all this.. but it's hard." She pouts.

"Aw.. you have no idea, baby." Jessica chuckles.

Gabriella looks at Jessica then throws herself into her mother's arms.

"Aw baby! If you don't feel well, we can just go another time. It's really not a big deal."

"No, you, me and Ana are going to spend the day together!"

Just then Willow crawls in babbling.

"Don't forget the tiniest Huston woman!" Jessica smiles walking over and lifting Willow off the ground.

"Hey chubby! I didn't know you were coming!" Gabriella smiles and takes the baby from her.

Willow looks at Gabriella and smiles before wanting her mother.

"Mmmmmm!" She pouts and reaches for Jessica.

"You can't have mama until you Say Mama! That's the rules." Jessica says cutely.

"MMMMMMM!" Willow quickly becomes irritated.

"Alright! Come here, baldy!"

Gabriella chuckles and says, "When do you think they'll grow hair?"

"I don't know! All of my babies had these gorgeous heads of hair at this point! Now I have two little cute Uncle Festers." She says making Gabriella laugh.

"But you're cute, aren't you?" Jessica kisses her chubby cheek.

"Hey! Are we ready?!" Anastasia walks in shouting.

"Yeah, we're just talking." Jessica smiles.

"Is that what you're wearing, Barbie doll?" Anastasia walks closer to her older sister. She was inspecting her outfit with a look of disgust.

"Yeah, Why?"

"Let me dress you up today."

"Anastasia, I can dress myself!"

"Not like that you idiot! I want you to go a day dressed like me!"

Gabriella gasps. "You mean.. Go goth?"

"Gabby, your sister is not goth, she just doesn't like color!" Jessica says.

"You're both like that and I don't understand it. Why wear black when you can wear pink?"

"Hold on a second while I barf!" Anastasia says.

"Oh Ana, don't even mention the word barf or I'll get sick again!" She says holding her stomach.

"Just come on!" Anastasia grabs her hand and yanks her to her room.

"Mom! Help me!" Gabriella reaches for Jessica.

Jessica laughs then looks at Willow. "Your sissy's are crazy!"

Willow smiles and blows spit bubbles at her mother's face as she slaps her on the cheek.

"Hey! That wasn't nice!" She says making the baby laugh.

**

"Anastasia Juliet!"

"What?!"

"This lipstick is horrendous!"

"Shut up and be still!" Anastasia grabs her chin to hold her head still.

Meanwhile in the living room Jessica is playing with the baby.

"Who's mama's baby girl?
...Willow is!" Jessica repeats over and over again, each time making Willow laugh harder and harder.

"You are so silly, Lo Lo! Now! Can you Pleeeeease say Mama?"

"Mmmmm!"

"Yes, I know you've got the M right. Now say Mama!"

"MMM!" She says slapping her in the face.

"Hey!" Jessica laughs.

Willow giggles and does it once again.

"That's not nice, missy!  Why do you keep hitting me?"

"Mom! Willow!" Anastasia runs into the living room. "I would like to introduce you to my new and improved, Much older sister!" She says with a smile.

Gabriella walks out with absolutely no emotion. "I feel dirty."

"Oh Gabby!" Jessica smiles.

"Doesn't she look cool? I mean, she's no Ana but she's okay!"

"I love it!"

Gabriella then walks to the mirror to look at herself.

"Oh.. Oh wow!"

"You like it?" Anastasia smiles.

"Heh! I can pull off any look, can't I?"

"Oh geez." Anastasia rolls her eyes.

Willow takes one look at Gabriella and cries. She buries her face in the crook of Jessica's neck and shakes her head black and forth.

"Oh come on, no one can be as scary as Ana!"

Jessica laughs and says, "Let's go, girlies."

**

"Girls, Stop here. I want a picture!"

"Mom!" Anastasia groans.

"I'm ready." Gabriella poses with her sister.

"Let me see it! Do I look perfect?" Gabriella smiles.

Anastasia rolls her eyes. "You're delusional."

"Too bad Willow's sleeping, we could do a sister picture!  Oh gosh but look how cute she looks taking her little nap!" Jessica says snapping her picture.

"She looks so sweet when she sleeps." Gabriella says.

"But when she wakes up she's a terror!" Anastasia adds.

"Anastasia!  She is not!  Emerson, Yes But Willow, No!"

***

July 8th.

"Danny, I don't want to leave my baby!  She's pregnant and she needs me." Jessica pouts.

"Well we don't have to leave when we were planing to, baby."

"But I know eventually we'll have to leave, and I can't do that!  How can I leave my baby girl alone in New York while she's pregnant?"

"I don't know, honey."

"You're supposed to know exactly what to say to make me feel better!" Jessica shouts and jumps in place like a toddler throwing a tantrum.

"Baby girl." Danny sighs and wraps his arms around her. "Pregnancy is so hard and to think of her doing it all alone makes me so sad for her!" Jessica cries. "I can't do it, I can't be all the way in New Orleans while she's all the way in New York carrying my grandchild!"

"Well sweetie, we can stay here until the kids go back to school."

"But after that! After that, Danny!" She whines.

"You don't think she'll want to move back home and have the baby around family? She can only dance for so long. She'll be showing soon."

"She's stubborn, she's not gonna stop until that baby falls out of her!"

"It'll be okay, Jessie. Don't be so emotional."

"Don't tell me not to be too emotional! She's my baby!" Jessica smacks his hand.

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry!" Danny moves his hands and wraps his arms around her.

**

Later that evening.

"Gabriella, you're twelve weeks now and you don't even look pudgy!" Jessica says.

"Well of course not, I've always been very petite!" She smiles and wiggles her little body.

"Oh Christ!" Anastasia rolls her eyes.

"I can't wait for you to get fat." Isaiah smiles.

"Oh Zaya!" Gabriella chuckles and hits him on the arm.

"So Gabby.. where are you planning on having this baby?" Jessica asks.

"The hospital. There's no way in hell I'm doing what you did, Mamacita!  I want to be knocked out or numb from the neck down! I don't want to feel a thing!"

"Well that's fine!
..But I mean.. Where are you going to have the baby?
...My little grand baby." Jessica says in a sad voice.

"Well here, of course!"

"Here?"

"New York! Where else would I have it?"

"Well I thought maybe you'd u would want to.."

"Momma, by the time Júlio is finished with this production I'll be five months pregnant. By then I'll be used to my doctor here."

"Oh.."

"But You of course will be here for the birth! I need you, momma!"

"Definitely! I just.." Jessica's bottom lip quivers and she suddenly bursts into tears.

"Why are you crying?"

"Because I have to leave and I'm gonna miss you being pregnant! Why don't you just come home, Gabby?"

"Because mom! I have a life here. You have your life in the south. You can visit!" Gabriella smiles.

"That's not good enough! I'm your mother and I demand you come back home with us!"

"Mom!" Gabriella laughs. "It'll be okay! I promise to visit before I get too pregnant so you all can throw me a surprise baby shower." She smiles.

"I know I'm over reacting, but you're my baby girl, and you're pregnant!"

"Aw momma, I know.." Gabriella walks over and hugs her mother.

"I love you, baby girl.. I'll try to stop being all weepy but, I've never had a pregnant child before!"

"Um excuse me, but I have a child." Noah interrupts.

"I know baby, but I mean a pregnant one!  Little Charlotte's pregnancy was so so special.. you know, after getting passed the anger of it all.  You were fifteen, Noah!" Jessica shouts.

"My mommy and daddy say to me that I was born when they were babies and they say that I not gonna date boys till I old like you, gramma!"

Jessica turns to Noah and Kenley giving them a stern look.

"It was just.. we didn't mean it like that, aunt Jessie." Kenley chuckles nervously.

"Save it!  Anyway, Gabriella Danielle!  You just wait until that baby stretches you out as big as Texas, and your boobs are the size Macy Thanksgiving day balloons!
..And you're crying because McDonald's shorts you a nugget!" Jessica says getting choked up.

"Oh gosh.. it really is a magical time, Gabriella!"

Danny walks up behind her and wraps his arms around her body. "This is a perfect example of how the pregnancy hormones don't go away just because the babies are out.  She cried this morning because I ate off of her plate."

"Ugh!  I'm still mad at you about that!" Jessica smacks his arm.

"Looks like I have a lot to look forward to." Julio chuckles.