"Alice is pregnant?"

"Well, she thinks so." Dani shrugged. "Poor thing. We ought to offer to help her out. Of course, she's already planning to marry the father of said baby. Just you know, if her parents don't want to give her a place to stay. She can't very wall stay at school and have a baby. We were planning to do the same for Mack, just a slightly friendlier girl. So we'd probably actually see her more than at meal times. And she likes to talk, a lot. But really, I doubt the girl has many other friends the way she rambled to me… and certainly no friends who could help her out."

"You're joking."

"No." she said lightly. "I'm not laughing am I?"

"Dani....another baby? Another....we're going to have another?"

"Well yes." She noded. "That's usually what happens when you're pregnant, you have a baby."

"We..we can't. We just had Sophia. I'm... I'm not ready."

Dani couldn't help but snicker. "Oh? You're not ready?" She chuckled. "You've not got to do anything about it for nine months. If anyone's not ready it's me."

"Are,..are you sure?"

"Yes." Dani nodded. "Does a healer have to tell you for you to believe it?" Last time it had be Dani in disbelief. Of course, she had a few weeks, and a bit of time to get adjusted to the idea. She'd just sort of sprang it on Sean, poor bloke.

"Shit, we're having another baby."

She glared at him, and gave him a rather large shove as she stormed out of the room. "Well, I'm very happy." She went back to her bedroom for a moment grabbing a sweater and tugging it on. Ss she stormed off down stairs to the kitchen, she poked her head back in the room Sean was, and added "You're a bastard." Then she very nosily stomped off to the kitchen and started making herself a cup of hot chocolate.

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