THREE MONTHS LATER

"Wake up Ari," Soda yells while lightly shaking me.

"No, I don't want to," I reply to him tiredly

"Ari, please I'm tired too but, we have to go to the docs to see what the gender is,"Soda pleaded.

I open one eye and reply, "Soda, I'm pregnant and tired. You're just working. I wake up everyday and throw up, I'm like five-hundred pounds, I'm always tired, and I have weird craving!"

"Ok, ok, but, you do have to get up or else I'll get Darry to wake you," he told me.

With that I shot right up, "on it."

Soda and I both laughed at the fact that I'm terrified of being woken up by Darry. I was digging through my clothing like every other day and I find,a pretty navy blue sweater and a pair and sweatpants. I pulled everything off and got dressed into my huge clothing. I looked down and thought, how did I get this big in three month? I shrugged it off and yelled down to Soda, "ready!"

I ran downstairs and immediately Pony and Johnny got up and made me a spot. "Thanks," I say and plop down.

"So, today we found out, the gender of the baby!" Ponyboy says happily.

"And if there's more than one," I laugh. The rest of the gang starts to laugh too but, then I touch my stomach again what if I am.

I hear Soda come running down the stairs so, I try to get up but foolishly fall back down. The whole gang roars with laughter as that happens. "Hey," I whine.

"Sorry, it was funny," Two-bitts replies getting up and pulling me to my feet as the rest the gang is still laughing.

"Bye gang, I'll see you later with the news," I told them.

They all laughed but managed to get out, "bye, Ari. Bye Soda. Goodluck!"

We went into the car and the drive so chatty about what happened it started with Soda, "you excited?"

"Yea and nervous," I replied. "You?"

"Yea but, more nervous than excited," Soda says.

"What gender to you want?" I asked him hoping we both wanted a little girl.

"I want a girl to be daddy's girl but, I also want a boy so he can have a dad to play ball with when he gets home," he told me."

"Oh, yea understandable," I replied kind of shocked he didn't ask about my thoughts.

Then he jumped out and quickly asked, "you?'

"I want a baby girl," I reply to him honestly.

"Yea, that would be nice," he says.

Then a get a little tense and ask, "what if we have more than one kid?"

"We'd be fine," he says.

"Promise?" I ask because I'm really worried about this.

"Yea, I swear," he replies.

With that we pull into the waiting room and sign in. We sit there reading parenting books, we both don't truly have parents that can help us out. Then it hit me my kid or kids won't have any grandparents, sure my kid(s) will have a ton of aunts and uncles but, grandparents are just so important. I feel my stomach, I love my kid(s) so much yet, they're never going to have a real family. I hear the nurse yell, "Curtis!" That pulls me out of my train of thought and In jump up out of my seat.

I lay on the cold bed as they put even colder blue jelly on my tummy and the nurse starts to ask questions, "any history of twins or triplets in the family?"

"Nope not in mine or Soda's," I answer.

"How long have you been pregnant?" She asks looking at my stomach.

I guess Soda saw the look on my face because he answered, "three months, why is somthing wrong?"

"No, okay so have you been getting sick?" She asks me.

"Yes, very often why?"I ask her nervously, knowing I wake up extremely sick.

"Just wondering," she replies and all I can think is what kind of response is that.

She puts something on my stomach and we hear a heartbeat in just a few minutes and the nurse says, "ok, that's one healthy baby girl."

I smile and look at Soda, "we have a baby girl in my stomach!"

He replies with a smile, "I know baby, I know."

Then we hear another heartbeat, "that's one healthy baby boy."

I look at Soda, "twins? That's a boy and a girl."

Soda says, "ok, twins, so Marianna and Spencer Curtis."

"Yes, Marianna and Spencer," I say.

Then we hear another heart beat. Triplets? That's when I hear the nurse say, "and that's two healthy baby girls."

"Ok, so Annabelle, Marianna, and Spencer," I tell Soda.

"Yup I love you and all my babies,"Soda says with a smile.

We rod home in a silence, then I asked, "what now?"

"We move out, and take care of our kids," Soda replied.

I just smiled until we got home, then I walked into the living room and saw all the Greaser, I cleared my throat to let everybody know I'm here.

"Hey, Ari how's it going?" Dallas asked knowing about my appointment.

"Yea, do I got a niece or nephew?" Pony asked with excitement in his voice.

"Yea, Ari what happened?" Two-bitts interrogated.

"Boy or girl?" Steve asked very simply

"Let, Arianna breathe," Darry commanded.

I looked over at Soda and he gestured for me to talk so I did, "Well we picked out names as you know, Marianna for a girl and Spencer for a boy. Well the news you have awaited has gotten extended."

I stopped there and looked at the confused face then Johnny asked, "what do you mean? Is the baby okay?"

I then continued, "yes, Johnny the babies are fine."

"Babies!" Dallas exclaimed before letting me finish."

The whole gang roared with excitement.

"Yes, we have two baby girls, Marianna and Annabelle. Then we have a boy named Spencer. You guys are all uncled of three," I replied with a smile.

"Three!" Pony screamed with joy. I don't think he understands what that meant. I'm sure if Soda know what that means I'm not even sure that I know what that means.

Then a heard say something, "we're going to have to move. I don't know where we're moving."

I looked at Soda what is he saying? Are we moving out of Tulsa? I looked at him and asked, "what do you mean? We're staying in Tulsa right?"

Then he said what I never imagined, "If that's what you think is best."

I asked him with a slight raise in my voice, "do you think that it's for the best.And you sure as hell aren't calling my judgement bad! Are you?"

Soda replied fast. "no I'm just saying the choice us yours."

I smiled, "ok. Well I'm going upstairs."

"Night," the whole gang said.

"Night," I replied.