This Too Shall Pass

Chapter 16

The doctor enters the room with some things in this hands that I don't know the names of. He smiles briefly and then explains what he is going to be doing in order to discover the gender of the baby.

Mark looks extremely nervous, Amy notices this as well and walks across the room to grab both of his hands. She mumbles something and then pecks his lips quickly. He looks at her with such admiration and smiles happily.

The doctor begins to rub some gel onto Annabelle's stomach, she giggles a little bit and attempts to stop squirming. I assume it's tickling her. The doctors chuckles and stops as the black and white image appears on the large monitor.

It takes me a moment to find the small human, no bigger than an egg right now, but it is the first time I have layed eyes on my baby niece or nephew. Well, technically it isn't... But Annabelle might as well be my sister.

The doctor quickly begins typing onto the computer and then leaves the room briskly without a word, leaving Mark, Amy, Annabelle and I alone in the room together,

A nurse enters the room a few minutes later and takes the place of the doctor. In her hand is a small box. She explains that inside the box is the gender of her baby and a few small gifts from the hospital itself. The nurse hands it to Mark who stares at it for a moment before handing it to Annabelle hesitantly.

"Wait... I..." Annabelle's voice cracks slightly "Ryan has to be here for this."

Mark nods and pulls out his phone, I assume to text Ryan -Annabelle's Ex and the baby's father- or Ryan's mom. Once the text sends he opens his camera phone and starts recording.

"Hello, Everybody! My name is Markiplier and today I am in the hospital, but this time it's not for me, and it's not bad! This time, we're discovering Annabelle's Baby's gender! We won't post what it is quite yet but when we have the gender reveal I will try to livestream that so you guys will find out at the same time as everyone else!" He pauses and turns the camera towards me.

"Claire!" He says, startling me, I tear my eyes away from the ultrasound and look at him.

"Yes?" I ask.

"Guess who's joining us for that day?" He says slyly.

"Hmm?" I mumble.

"Well... Jack found the time to FaceTime that day and Signe is flying out!" He cheers.

I feel my jaw fall open "REALLY?!" I cry.

Annabelle nods, "I invited them, I miss Signe and I know you do too and Jack deserves to know this peanut's sex. Also you're taking the trip back to Brighton that week so you might as well just fly back with her..."

I clap my hands and give her a hug, carefully avoiding the gel still lathered on her stomach, and then I give a hug to a chuckling Mark and a smiling Amy.

"Thank you!" I squeal.

Mark stops recording, but every once in a while he pulls it out again to do a little update on the situation. The doctor still has not returned and Annabelle is becoming impatient. It has been an hour and a half, school has just ended at this point.

Finally there is a knock at the door and the boy I assume is Ryan enters the room with who I can only assume are his mother and father. He takes a seat next to Annabelle who smiles sweetly but is only left with a scowl from Ryan.

"I-I'm so sorry this happened!" Ryan's father cries out.

"No, no, it's okay! We have plenty of space and time for a baby!" Amy says quickly.

"Ryan is having some serious consequences for getting your daughter pregnant and then just dumping her! That was completely unacceptable and I apologize!" His mother states.

"No, don't worry! We have 2 stable jobs, plenty of space and time, and we have Claire and Amy who are more than willing to help Annabelle with our new grandchild!" Mark bushes, attempting to calm down Ryan's parents.

"Um... might I be able to ask a quick question?" Annabelle interjects.

Everyone's heads turn to her, Ryan's mother nods.

"Um... well... I have some names picked out and I wanted to know if you're okay with them?" She asks hopefully.

"Okay, what are they?" Ryan's mother asks sweetly, without a hint of bitterness in her voice. This woman truly care about Annabelle. That's heartwarming to see.

"Well if it's a boy I was thinking Timothy or Koen, and for a girl I was thinking Akari or Jayden?" Annabelle states, slightly more confident.

"Awww... definitely Timothy or Jayden." Ryan's mother gushes.

"I'm down for Koen or Jayden." Ryan's Father is a little more unenthusiastic but still offeres his opinion happily.

"Oh my god! Timmmmmmm!" Mark squeals like a small child. Earning Chuckles from the room. "Or Akari. I like that name!" He adds as well.

"Timothy. Definitely, if it's a girl I'm not dealing with that shit." Ryan growls.

Annabelle's face falls and Ryan's parents cast him an angry look.

-Timekip brought to you by my 4 friends and my girlfriend that totally ditched me at this weird sleepover/game night thing happening right now-

Annabelle looks at us after our long debate about the names of the baby.

"So Timothy or Akari then?" Annabelle asks the room. Everyone mutters their agreement.

Annabelle gestures me to her side as she holds the small box in her hands. She hands it to me and we look at each other before opening the box together.

Inside of it is an ultrasound, a few pacifiers and things, and then an envelope, inside of it is a blue card that reads:

ITS A BOY!!!

The inside of the card is signed by each nurse and words of congratulations on Annabelle's baby boy.

The room erupts with cheers as we scream the name Tim again and again and Annabelle clings to Mark and Amy in a hug. Tears of Joy stream down her face.

Little Tim is coming...

Unfortunately, Book 1 is coming to an end soon! I'm thinking maybe 4 or 5 more chapters and then a sequel at some point, but I don't know!

Also I just realized this has become an AMYPLIER book, not a Septiishu one. I think I'm going to change this to an Amyplier book and have the sequel be a more Septiishu oriented one. Yup, I did not think this through AT ALL. IM A MATURE PERSON WHO CAN TOTALLY FUNCTION IN SOCIETY!