Me and the Mystery boy

Breaking the News

I let go of my brothers shirt collar, letting him fall to the floor and hit the ground hard, not so gracefully. I let every word sink into my head before I tried to think of something to say. So my brother got a girl pregnant, but that's not what worried me the most. What worries me the most is that she died somehow and before she died she had a baby which she also claims is my brothers. How should I go about handling this? I'm not really angry at him because he is almost 17 for crying out loud and it's time he makes his own decisions and deals with the consequences like an adult, considering he is not that far away from being one himself. Wait, back up, so this means that he has a kid and since he is my brother then that means... I'm going to be an aunt! I jumped up and down excitedly while my old rickety wooden floor groaned as my feet made contact with it. I stopped jumping when I saw my brothers dumbfounded expression.

I repeatedly pumped my fist in the air while doing a little happy dance,"I'm going to be an aunt!" I whisper/yelled at Johnny. I didn't want to wake up everybody in the whole house with my excitement.

Johnny let out a huge relieved sigh as if a huge weight were lifted off of his shoulders,"Now the hard part is telling the others what happened. I just wanted you to know first because you are my twin sister and you mean the world to me." Johnny picked himself up off of the floor and practically threw himself into my arms, hugging me to death. I patted his head like I would a dog for fetching a stick.

I grabbed his chin and forced him to look at me,"So when do I get to see this little ball of sunshine?" I pointed my finger at him.

He chuckles lightly,"Well I have to go pick the little ball of sunshine up tomorrow if you want to come, but I have to pick him/her up while you would usually be in school. So I doubt you would want to miss school."

I punched him in the arm lightly,"This is my niece/nephew we are talking about here. I will gladly skip school to pick up this little ball of sunshine. It's not like we are going to do anything in school anyway, and besides, who cares? I'm going to be moving at the end of October anyway. Now back to the real problem, how on earth are you going to tell mom and Cole without them going all ape on you?"

Johnny scratched the back of his head clearly really thinking about how to go about this. Then it's almost like a light bulb going off in his head,"Well we can say that you and I are going to have a sibling bonding day since I haven't seen you in two years and mom will just have to say yes and let you skip school. And if I have to I will even pull out my puppy dog begging face and she always says yes to that face." Johnny does the famous puppy dog face emphasizing his point.

I laugh at how ridiculous he looks,"Okay so that solves the problem of me getting out of school, now how are you going to tell her about the baby and about Elise?" I say her name hesitantly because it feels weird saying a name that I have never heard of before.

He looks at me as if the answer is right in my face screaming at me,"Simple, we go get the baby from Elise's parents and we go to the store to get some baby stuff and everything and we come back home. You will stay outside with the baby while I go inside with either a pink or blue baby bib and I sit mom on the couch because I have a 'surprise' for her. I will blindfold her with one of my bandanas and I will place the bib in front of her. When she takes off the bandana she will see the baby bib and hopefully understand exactly what I mean."

I nod my head in amusement,"This plan might actually work. Okay and what are we gonna do once she sees the baby bib?"

He smiles a little bit,"Then she will most likely ask me a few questions about the bib. I will be like, mom this is the surprise I was talking about and then you will come in with the baby and show her just exactly what I mean. After that I will calm her down because she will most likely flip out, then I will explain everything just like I did with you. I'm honestly really surprised at how well you took that. I was afraid you would go off on me and say every word in the book. I thought you were going to flip out and be so nervous about it all, but you took it really well even though it was probably the absolute last thing you were expecting to hear me say at 12 O'clock at night."