"Dad...we need to talk to you" Skylar looked way too serious as she approached Dave. He was busy chowing down his burger dinner next to her.

But he heard her.

Ryder was trying to sit still, but he failed, and jumped off the bed, pacing the floor.

"Jeeez man, sit down or stop pacing, you are making me even more hungry acting like a caged lion!" Dave sighed between bites, avoiding talking with his mouth full. That made him laugh. He wasn't exactly well mannered. But he respected his food enough, not to talk while chewing. You can't taste it properly, the words sort of squash the taste buds, he figured.

"This is serious dad...I mean it, stop chewing for a moment!" She knew him too well, and so he swallowed the bite down, and looked at her impatiently.

Ryder thought he looked like a big baby...A big baby with tattoos! If their child would be anything like Dave, they had their work cut out for them!

He was laughing, without realizing it, but as he saw both Skylar and Dave looking at him, eyes wide open, he stopped immediately, realizing how inapropriate it might seem.

"Dad...we need to tell you something, and don't make any jokes, okay? This is serious" she looked worried. She needed to have his full attention, she needed him to be serious.

"I am getting a serious vibe here, am I wrong?" He smiled, and Ryder wondered if Dave would ever become a fully grown adult at heart? He was playful, like a kid. A rare quality it seemed? Most people are way too mature. In some ways Dave was like a kid, a rambunctious teenager.

Skylar sighed. She figured once they told him, he would eventually stop cracking jokes like that. And so she just blurted it out!

"I...I'm pregnant dad" she said, and as she looked out the window realizing it was drumming up a storm outside, rain beginning to pour, and thunder approaching from afar, she didn't fail to recognize the distinct irony!

She anticipated one of two possible scenarios.

1. Dave would shoot up, and jump on Ryder, kind of striking him like the thunder drifting closer and closer, they all heard it.

2. Dave would just be quiet, go on lockdown...that would be a scary concept!

And he did.

Of course he had to go by the scary option.

He was just quiet.

The jokes stopped.

Everything stopped, even time it seemed?

"Dave" Ryder started, but as Dave raised his hand to silence him, he clammed up!

"You are pregnant" Dave repeated, quietly...almost too quiet for them to hear.

"How is that possible? How can that even happen?" He got up, now he was the one pacing.

"Oh...My...Lord...and I do not mean that literally!" He was yelling, Dave wasn't known for his subtlety.

"What were you thinking, and I do mean the both of ya'll!" He was still screaming. His bald head prevented him from pulling out his hair, instead he kept rubbing it. The veins in his temples shot out like crazy, and it looked like his head was about to explode.

"How could you be so careless? Skylar...I expected more from you...that one!" Now he was pointing at Ryder. Dabbing his finger up and down.

"Him I would expect something like this from. NOT you honey...this is a big deal, a very big deal!" He sighed willingly. Groaning and moaning loudly.

"We know that! We are not taking this lightly daddy, we are serious...we were being careful" she said.

"Not careful enough, obviously!" He said, and gave out another loud grumpy moan.

He sat back down, pushed the burger aside, and started grunting. He seemed calm all of a sudden, he was talking in tongues, but at least he was calm?

"Are you guys a couple now?" He looked at Ryder.

"Yes Sir...we are...I am not going to bolt, I told Skylar...I am here for her, for us..." Ryder felt at ease for some reason. He had done nothing wrong? He loved Skylar, and he wanted to be with her, how could that be wrong?

He loved Skylar? It caught him by surprise, for that thought to enter into his mind, but it was the truth! HE loved Skylar.

"Don't call me that!" Dave said, referring to the sir bit!

And just like that, Dave was back.

"Kids...you are killing me here" he said, leaning back, staring at the ceiling.

"I know you might hate me" Ryder said.

Silence.

Roaring silence.

"But I will be here for Skylar. I want to be here for her...I promise you, I will shape up, I will get my act together!" Ryder stopped, lacking any reaction from Dave, he just gave up.

"I don't hate you Dude...hate is not healthy for me, it's toxic. I am not mad, I am worried, and I never worry!" Dave was still staring at the ceiling.

He finally faced them.

"How are we going to deal with this?" He said, and looked at both of them.

His words were comforting to her, he wasn't angry, he was ready to rally around them, and support whatever decision they might reach, it was clear to her.

Ryder was stuck on the fact that Dave wasn't mad...how could he not be?

"I am not mad...I have been in your shoes. Skylar's mom got pregnant by accident. I thought we were being careful, but I never regretted having that little pumpkin" he said, looking somewhat nostalgic, to their surprise.

Skylar smiled, realizing she knew very little about her parents' relationship.

They had her by accident. Some babies are accidents, but that does not mean they aren't wanted, right?

Only her circumstances were different, she knew that all too well.

Her baby might grow up without a mother, but it occurred to her...so had she.

And she turned out alright, right?