Jen and I were picked up by two agents at her house. We had put the partition up so that we had a bit of privacy. At this point Jen and I were the only ones that knew that I was pregnant for the third time. The last thing I wanted was for the entire agency to know before I even told Nick and the girls.
“How do I tell Nick that I'm pregnant again? We were suppose to be done having kids after Jayden and Jocelyn were born." I said to Jen.
“Just tell him; he's your husband and the father of your girls, all four of them. He will be more than understanding when you tell him.”
“Are you telling me that I gonna have another girl when I'm only a few days along?”
“Pretty much, so you better start looking for another “J” name for my niece.”
“I know, Jen; I just have a lot on my plate now and the baby can wait for her name.”
“Don't worry baby girl, your mommy will have your name picked out in no time. She's just a bit frazzled between work and your big sister going off to college in the fall.” Jen said to my stomach.
“I hate it when you do that.”
“Get over it, Jay. I talked to JD and the twins when you were pregnant with them. I'm not leaving Jayla Athena out of a tradition I did with her sisters.”
“There we go, she has a name.”
“She'll love it.”
I looked down to my stomach.
“I love you, Jayla; and I can't wait to see you in nine months.”
It was nice that I was the only one pregnant this time around, not that I didn't like having someone pregnant with me like I had the previous two times. This time it would be about me and Jayla.
“So are you disappointed that you’re the only one pregnant this time?”
“Not really. It was nice being pregnant at the same time as Ziva and then again being pregnant at the same time as Kate. But I am glad that I am flying solo this time. You know how I hate to share the spotlight with others.”
Before I knew it we were back at the agency it was time to tell Nick that he was going to be a Dad again. Nick was in his cubicle when we had reached our floor.
“Nick; we need to talk now.”
Nick came over to me as soon as I had asked him to.
“What’s wrong, love?” Nick asked.
I pulled Nick aside by the windows across from the squad – room before I told him.
“Do you remember the night I was so upset and overwhelmed with everything moving too fast?”
“Of course I do, you were up for anything that night.”
“I know, anyway all of that fun we had that night and the following morning kind of resulted in something……” I said trailing off at the end.
“What did it result in, Jaylyn?”
It was weird hearing Nick say my first name in its entirety instead of shortening it like he always did, like everyone did.
“I’m pregnant again; you’re going to be a dad again.”
At first Nick didn’t say a word; he just stood in front of me as if he were a statue. It already looked like this wasn’t going the way I had hoped it would.
“You can’t be pregnant, you’re not pregnant. You’re just overcompensating for JD going to college in a few months and we took precautions. There is no baby.”
I couldn’t find the words that would encompass how much I hated Nick at the moment. All I could do was slap Nick across his face for his jackass reaction and head to my office with tears streaming down my face.
Jen had told the others that I was pregnant again while I had told Nick. Everyone watched from the squad room. When I had left everyone behind for the seclusion of my office things got a bit interesting. Nick remained where I had left him, still a bit stunned that I had smacked him.
“Could you have been any more of an ass?” Jen asked as she past Nick and followed me.
“That was real nice; Nick, call your wife and the mother of your daughters a liar to her face when she is pregnant with your child. Jackass.” Ziva said as she quickly came up on Jen’s six.
Kate and Abby didn’t say a word to Nick as they walked by him; all they did was glare at him as they quickly caught up to Jen. Jethro then told Nick to wait for him in the elevator.
When I had got to my office I had a few minutes to myself before the brigade came in. The tears were sliding down my face and there was no sign of it stopping. I could hardly believe let alone process what had just happened. My husband of eighteen years had just called me a liar to my face.
“I am so sorry that you had to hear your daddy say that Jayla. He loves you, I promise. It’s just gonna take him awhile to come around; last time we had a baby in the house was fourteen years ago when your big sisters Jayden and Jocelyn were born. I love you, my baby girl.”
I lay on my office couch with my hand resting on my stomach and the tears still streaming down my face. Right before Jen, Kate, Abby and Ziva came in; I took my rings off my hand and tossed them out of sight. The last thing I wanted was a reminder of Nick right now.
Jen and the others came in.
“Before you guys say anything, the girls and I are staying with you and Jethro. I don’t want to be anywhere near Nick and I definitely don’t want the girls to be near him.”
“Where are your rings?” Abby asked.
“Over there somewhere on the floor, I’m guessing.”
“Congrats on the baby.” Kate said trying to get me to smile.
“That little one inside of you is gonna have the best mom and aunts to show her how to be a fighter. And she’ll have sisters that will do just about anything to protect her.”
“Thanks guys.” I said as we hugged.
Jethro had his talk with Nick as Jen and the others comforted me. Abby grabbed my rings and gave them to me. Nick had apologized to me and the baby, but I still didn’t want to be in the same house with him later. I had changed my mind and let the girls stay home. I would obviously have one of my four girls with me when I stayed over at Jen and Jethro’s; and that was all that matter to me at the moment. That night I went home with my sister and brother – in – law. It was gonna take awhile before I could fully forgive Nick, put my rings back on and go home; thankfully my sister’s door was still open to me as it had been for my entire life. I was debating when I was going to tell JD, Jayden and Jocelyn that they were going to have a sister as well as if Nick was going to tell them with me or not. Nick did have a right to tell the girls with me, but at the moment the fact that he was half of their genes really didn’t matter to me.
As I debated what I should do, Jen came downstairs already for bed and from the looks of it her hair was pulled back in a ponytail. I knew what that meant. The floor board were gonna be shaking into the wee hours of the morning tonight.
“You got to be kidding me; you two are going fool around when you have your pregnant sister sleeping just down the hall.”
“Just because you’re pregnant and staying with us doesn’t mean that the honeymoon phase has to end for us.”
“Okay moving on before I am completely scarred for the rest of my adult life, if you were in my situation and you still had to tell your teenage daughters that they were going to have a new baby sister in nine months time would you tell them by yourself or wait until you reconciled with Jethro to tell them?”
“I’d wait to tell them with Jethro, but that just me.”
“Or it’s just your hormones talking.” I said.
“I’m not the only one in this room that is running on a hormone high, Jay.”
Jen went back up to Jethro and I got on their kitchen video phone to call the girls. Nick had answered and as cordial as I could I asked him to put the girls on.
“Hey mom, what’s going on?” Jayden asked.
“Why are you staying with Aunt Jen and Uncle Jethro?” Jocelyn asked.
“Mom, what’s going on between you and Dad? Why are you video calling us? JD asked.
“Dad and I are just not seeing eye to eye on something; we had a minor argument earlier.”
“Why are you calling?” JD asked again.
“You guys are gonna have a baby sister in a few months, I’m pregnant.”
The girls were a bit more excited about the news of the baby then Nick had been a huge relief for me. With that I went up to bed after I had said good night to my girls, I hadn’t missed one good night with them yet and I wasn’t about to let my fight with Nick get in the way of that. Jen and Jethro let me stay in Kelly’s old room which they had turned into the guest bedroom after she had moved in with Jason. Once I was under the covers and the bedside lamp was off, I had placed a hand on my stomach.
“Good night Jayla, my little angel.”
Within minutes of saying good night to the baby I had fallen asleep and just as I had previously predicted, the floor board were beginning to shake.
“This is gonna be a long night.” I said to myself.
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