Wait... what?
Jack was asleep in his bed, their mother Susan was with Cliff, so Jeff and Selina were by themselves on the living room sofa. They sat close together, watching a movie.
Jeff was anxious and had more ticks than usual. When he was with Selina, they would normally be fewer and would not reveal his illness. Not this night, though. Jeff knew why that might be, and he thought that he must soon ask his sister what was wrong with her.
This past week, she had not seemed to feel good though she claimed that there was nothing. On several occasions Jeff had heard her rush to the bathroom. At dinner, she had been a little absent and mostly poked at her food. She had even left the carrots that otherwise she loved.
He hoped it would not be anything serious. His biggest fear of all was that she would come down with a serious illness, which could not be cured. He did not want to lose her and knew he would not handle that very well.
If it wasn't something bad, why he was afraid to ask why she didn't seem to feel well and why couldn't she tell him the truth?
Selina had her own thoughts about how she could calm Jeff. She suspected that his tremors and twitches were more than usual due to his anxiety and that he perhaps had suspicions about why she felt like she did. She had not been able to hide her nausea completely.
Selina had been having her doubts about what was the matter with her. Her nausea had started more or less during the last two weeks. Because of that she had actually gone two days earlier and bought a pregnancy test. It had confirmed her suspicions - the test showed positive. Sure, she would go to the doctor to get it really confirmed, but she was confident it was true.
She finally decided she had courage enough and would not put things off any longer.
"Jeff, Jack will become a big brother." She blurted out.
It took a second before her brother responded. He sat straight up.
"Wait... what did you say?" Jeff asked.
"Jack will become a big brother." She repeated as calmly as she was able to.
"You're pre ... pregnant?"
Selina slapped Jeff on his arm.
"I must be, if Jack will have a sibling." Then she also added for fun, "It has to be me, if you hasn't made anyone else pregnant. Have you?"
Jeff's legs twitched, bumping into the table so hard the things on it rattled. Selina was quick to rescue a half-full glass before it overturned, spilling its contents.
Jeff tried to breathe calmly, and barely audibly he asked, "Who ?"
"Idiot! You, of course." Selina replied, having no problem knowing what he meant.
She threw her arms around him. Selina hoped that once the shock subsided Jeff actually would feel better.
Surely, Jeff was in shock. During the next half hour, he could not do anything other than just let the shaking run through his body and let Selina hold him. Of course, he was happy, but he had not imagined that he would become a father so soon again.
He loved Jack, but it was far from easy to have a child when they were still children or teenagers. With two it wouldn't be any easier, even if they were older and had some experience. It hadn't yet been two years.
When he thought he was coherent enough, he asked, "Are you absolutely sure?"
"Yes, I have the pregnancy test, and I think I've suspected it for a while."
"But we have to get it really confirmed. Don't we?" In the next breath he said, "oh shit, what shall we say to mom?"
"I vote that we tell her the truth."
Jeff nodded and turned in Selina's arms to kiss her.
Before they went to bed, Selina showed the test to Jeff. It was quite clear that it was positive.
*~* The End *~*
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