No Happy Ending

More than one

"Sam?! What the hell are you doing?!" she's pushing him away

"I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself! Sorry!" he takes her hand

"Don't touch me!!!" Jessica removed her hand and looked at the road

"I think you better get out here, Sam!"

"Ok" he gets out of the car slamming the door.

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Jessica comes into the house, throws the purse on the table and walks to the kitchen. Children and Danny sit at the table and drink tea.

"Danny?! What are you doing here?"

"Mom's home!" Vivien hugs her.

"Hi, honey."

"I came to pick up Vivian"

"Ugh, mom, what is it? You are fat!" Vivian poked her finger in her belly

"No, don't do that, honey!" Jessica kissed her hand.

"I said I'd bring her to you!" she gives Danny a look that could kill.

Vivian leaves the room, knowing that now the fight will start and she touches the purse with her hand and it falls to the floor

"Oops.." she quickly removes things back and finds a photo.

"Mom's having a baby!" she happily runs to the kitchen, fingering the photo in her hand. Jessica looks at her with wild eyes.

"Vivian, give it to me, please!" Jessica's trying to take it, but she's taking her hand, climbing onto the couch.

"Are you pregnant?!" Alicia smiles

"Jess?"

"No I'm not! Vivian give it to me and go get ready!"

"Alicia look!" Vivian running through David's legs and sits next to her sister

"Vivian!!"

"Mom, is this your picture?"

"Give it to me and Go to your rooms now!" she raises her voice, pointing to the door.
Alicia gives her the photo and they run into the room, but she gets around the corner and listens to the parents.

"Jessica..."

"Yes, I am!" she starts to cry, Danny put his arms around her.

"That's amazing, Jess! We're gonna have another baby! Everything will be ok!"

"No, nothing's gonna be okay!!" she pushes him "you live in another apartment, we're not together anymore and this baby will never know what it's like to grow up in a happy family!"

"Of course she/he'll know what it is, Jessie! I will help you, I will spend a lot of time with you all and the baby will be happy!" he sits down on the chair, his hands resting on her belly. Jessica hugs his head, still crying, and Danny hugs her waist, resting his forehead on her belly.

"Let me see your tummy."

Jessica nods and he lifts her shirt. She giggles when he kisses her belly

"Hey, baby! I'm your daddy and we love you very much!" he leaves a few kisses, smiling happily. Jessica takes his hands, he looks into her eyes, slowly gets up from his chair and puts his hand on her cheekbones.

"Thank You!" she whispers.

"For what? I've done so many terrible things!"

"Yeah, but three of our kids and one on the way will never be a terrible mistake!" tears roll down her cheeks and she takes his hand.

"You know, maybe there's more than one?" he smiles, stroking her belly.

"Oh no, don't even dream about it!" she giggles.

"Next appointment at Monday!"

"Ok! I'm coming with you!"

"Yayy! Mom's having a baby!" Viviаn runs into the kitchen and hugs her, Alicia and David run after her.

"Oh, you heard everything?!"

"Yeah!" they smile and Jessica giggles.

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Monday

They sit in the waiting room and Jessica jerks her leg nervously. Danny giggles and puts his hand on her leg.

"Don't worry, Jessie!"

"I can't! Look, I'm too fat for one baby, Danny! What if it's twins?" she's starting to breathe hard.

"Shhh, you look beautiful and even if it's twins, it's just good!"

"Yeah? Then you will give birth to them!"

"Ok!" he's giggling.

"Mrs. Huston?"

Danny takes her hand and they walk into the room.

"Good afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Huston! Glad to see you again!" the doctor sits at the table.

"How are you feeling?"

"My morning sickness continues and now it seems to me that I have more than one child there!" she giggles.

"Then lie down and we'll see!"

Jessica lies down on her back and lifts her shirt. Danny gets up next to her, takes her hand and smiles, looking in her eyes.
The doctor leans a Doppler on her belly and they hear a heartbeat.

"Is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard!" Danny smiles as he looks at the screen.

"Well, Mrs. Huston..." he's staring at the screen.

"What?! Is there more than one?!" she squeezes Danny's hand tighter

"You're right...there's more than two!"

"What?!" she looks at Danny and tears roll down her cheeks.

"Three babies?!!?" Danny asks.

"Yeah, I don't understand why we didn't see it at the first appointment, but it's definitely triplets, congratulations!"

"Jessie, it's triplets!" Danny kisses her hand.

"Danny, what if I can't give birth to them?! I'm forty and at this age I would find it hard to give birth to one but triplets! Oh my God!"

"Hey, it's gonna be okay, Jessie!" he kisses her hand "I'll be by your side and you will be able to do it. It won't matter when we see them!"

"Thank You!" she smiles through her tears.