Hannah
It was another ordinary day at work, Dale and I were rushed off our feet but at the same time we were pretty relaxed. There had been a delivery of stock ‘round the back early this morning, then shelves had to be stacked, orders had to be sent out to customers who purchased items online, more orders came in via e-mail and the website and then business picked up about an hour ago and we made a lot of sales.

“Lunch time!” Dale announced loudly and proudly when another customer left the store and it was suddenly much quieter in the store.

“It’s about time!” I laughed, sitting myself on the stool by the computer and pulling my lunch out
of my bag.

I’d been making changes to my diet recently, in the off chance that the implantation of the embryos worked and I was actually pregnant because I didn’t want the sudden change to be a shock to my system if I did it suddenly. Instead of eating fast food for lunch like I usually do, I’d started making my lunch at home and bringing it with me. Today it was a tub of tuna and sweetcorn pasta.

“Dude!” Dale laughed, choking over dramatically when I pulled the lid off of my lunch “That shit stinks!”

“It may stink but it’s healthy,” I chuckled, shovelling a forkful into my mouth.

The bell above the door rang, making Dale and I look down the store to see who was coming in
and we saw Erin strolling inside with her lunch in her hand and a smile on her face.

“Hold!” I exclaimed, pointing a long finger at her, she stopped in her tracks and looked at me with wide eyes “What do you have in that bag?” I asked.

“Taco Bell,” She answered “Why?”

“It smells so good,”

“You can smell that?” She asked, continuing to walk towards us.

“I don’t smell anything,” Dale said.

“It totally worked,” She laughed, giving me a quick side hug “You’re definitely pregnant,”

“We don’t know that,” I sang, waving her away from me.

She moved away from me and gave Dale a quick peck on the lips, making me smile.

Before Dale went off to Australia for a few months to visit his family, the two of them had a little
thing. Sure, she was crazy about Zack – he was the first man she ever loved, but he was with
someone else and there was nothing stopping Erin from living her life. I’ve woken up on many
mornings and walked into the kitchen to find Dale making breakfast for us all, but he makes her
happy whenever he is around and I can’t complain about that.

The three of us ate lunch together. Dale told us the remaining stories about his time over in
Australia and we had some laugh and normal conversation just like we always do.

Just when we were finishing up and getting ready to get back to work for the rest of the day,
Brian and Michelle walked through the door. They both had shit-eating grins on their faces and
Michelle was holding a brown paper bag in her hands.

“Hey!” I beamed at the two of them, ducking under the hatch in the counter and walking over to
them, wrapping my arms around my brother “What brings you two down here?” I asked.

“We were just out doing some shopping,” He answered, wrapping his arms back around me
and hugging me to him “How are you feeling today?” He asked.

“I feel fine,” I shrugged.

“Liar!” Erin laughed “She threw up this morning and she could smell my lunch from the other
end of the building,”

Michelle looked at me and smiled wider.

“Do you feel like taking a test?” She asked “There’s only one question,” She giggled, handing
over the paper bag.

I took it from her and looked inside and saw a ‘First Response’ pregnancy test inside.

“Alright,” I nodded “I need to pee anyway,” I chuckled.

I ducked back under the counter and started to walk through the back, but turned to look at
Brian and Michelle one last time before I went.

“If… if it isn’t positive, we’ll try again – right?”

The four of them softened their gazes and gave me sympathetic smiles. Brian wrapped an arm
around Michelle’s waist and pulled her against his side before he nodded at me.

“We can try again – if we have to,”

I nodded once and continued through the back, down the little corridor and into the toilet. I
locked the door behind me, took the box out of the bag and tore it open with shaky hands. My
brutality on the box caused both of the tests to fall on the floor with the piece of paper with the
instructions on it. I crouched down and picked everything up off of the floor and unfolded the
instructions and read them.

Once I knew what I was supposed to do with the tests, I pulled down my skinny jeans and my
underwear followed them before I sat on the toilet, removed the caps off of both of the tests,
stuck them both between my legs and took care of my business.

~~~~

I couldn’t look.

I’d left both of the tests in the sink to ‘season’ and used the timer on my phone to time the three
minutes that it took for the results to show up, but now that my phone had beeped loudly and
alerted me that it was time to look, I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I was so nervous that the
result wouldn’t be what we were all hoping for, but I was also nervous that it would be positive. I
just couldn’t seem to win here.

“Hannah?!” I heard Erin yelling from down the corridor “Hannah, are you alright in there?!”

“I’m fine!” I called back, my voice shaking. I closed my eyes and cursed myself silently.

‘You can do this’ I thought to myself ‘No matter what the results… everything is going to be fine’

I took a deep, shaky breath and turned around to the sink with my eyes closed, stepped
forward and braced my hands on the cold sides of the sink and opened my eyes. I looked down
into the sink at the two sticks that were laying there and a quick exhale of shock slipped from
my lips as a smile spread across my face. I picked up both of the tests and looked closer, they
were both positive.

“Holy shit,” I whispered.

I rushed out of the bathroom, clutching both of the pregnancy tests in my hands as I rushed
back up the little corridor and burst back into the store, making everyone turn around to look at
me.

“You’re gonna have a baby!” I exclaimed the second they looked at my, unable to stop the
words from spilling “It worked, I’m pregnant, you guys are gonna have a baby,”

Michelle ducked under the counter while Brian hurdled over the top of it and they both attacked
me with a giant hug while Erin and Dale jumped to their feet and let out noises of
congratulations and surprise before they joined in the hug.

“This can’t be good for the baby,” I laughed after a couple of minutes and everyone released
me.

“Oh my God,” Brian breathed “I can’t believe it really worked!”

~~~~

Erin

Brian and Michelle had taken Hannah over to Brian Senior’s and Suzy’s place so that they
could tell them that Hannah was pregnant.

I had the rest of the afternoon off, so I decided to stay at the store with Dale and keep him
company.

For a while now we’ve had a little… thing. We’re not exactly a couple and we certainly aren’t
exclusive or anything, but whatever it is, it’s fun and it’s good.

“You alright?” Dale asked, snapping me out of my daydreaming state.

“Yeah,” I smiled “I’m fine, why?”

“You seem a little out of it now,” He told me “Since Brian and Michelle left with Hannah,”

“It’s a lot to take in,” I shrugged “I mean, I knew that they were doing this whole thing, but now
that it’s really happening I’m a little shocked,”

“Are you thinking about what we had?” He asked.

“What we had?” I asked, confused.

“You know… last year,”

“Last year was nothing,” I chuckled, waving him off “We had a scare but that’s all it was,”

“I know,” He shrugged “But I know that I got a little bit excited by the idea of it, didn’t you?”

“No,” I laughed, smacking his chest “We’re not a couple and neither of us were – and we still
aren’t – in a place to have a kid, so no, I didn’t get excited about it in the slightest,”

“Alright, I believe you,” He smirked “But y’know what we haven’t done for a while?” He asked,
dropping his hands onto my hips and pulling me against him.

“What would that be?” I asked, draping my arms over his shoulders.

“You…” He whispered, leaning in close “Haven’t let me fuck you since before I went away,”

“Hmm,” I hummed “That’s a good point,” I admitted, grinding my hips into his “But you’re at work
and you could have customers come in at any minute,”

“Hold that thought,” He whispered, pecking my lips quickly before taking off.

He hurdled the counter and ran down the store and turned the ‘Open’ sign to ‘Closed and then
came back to me.

“There,” He smirked “Nobody can interrupt us now, we’re all alone,”

“Well, if we’re all alone when maybe you should fuck me right here,”

He kissed me hungrily for a few moments, grabbing my hips roughly with his large hands while
my fingers tangled in his hair and tugged at the ends. He quickly broke the kiss and spun me
around and pressed me against the counter, bending me over it.

“You want me?” He asked.

“Oh yeah,” I breathed “I want you so bad, Dee.”

“I love it when you call me that,” He growled, leaning over me to whisper into my ear again while
he reached around and unbuttoned my jeans “So sweet, so innocent… the complete opposite
of what you really are,”

I couldn’t stop the moan that slipped from my lips as he tugged my jeans down to my ankles
and followed them with my underwear.

“Don’t you dare hold back on me,” He ordered “You know how much I love to hear you moan,”

Spontaneous moments like these with Dale… I loved them. There was no teasing, no foreplay
and no messing around. He was right to the point.

I kept my position on the counter while he unbuckled his own belt and pulled down his own
jeans, but moaned loudly without any shame when he pushed into me.

It was hard, it was fast, sweaty, loud and downright hot. Just the way I liked it.

~~~~

Hannah

Mom and Dad were surprised to see the three of us, since we had really just dropped my
unannounced.

Brian told them that he and Michelle needed to talk to them about something, and I said nothing.
Mom made some drinks and we all went out into the back yard to soak up some sun by the
pool.

“So,” Dad started, settling into his seat “What is it that you need to talk to us about?” He asked.

“Is it something to do with your clothing line, Michelle?” Mom asked.

“No, it’s not,” Michelle chuckled, placing a hand on Brian’s knee “It’s much more exciting,”

I was nervous. It was like, telling my parents that I was a knocked up teenager. They hadn’t
known that I was going to be Brian and Michelle’s surrogate, they didn’t even know that they
were going to use a surrogate.

“Well spit it out,” Dad laughed “What is it?”

“We’re having a baby,” Brian beamed.

“What?” Mom squeaked, looking between Brian and Michelle “You’re pregnant?” She asked, a
smile spreading across her face.

“No,” Michelle said simply, shaking her head.

“Then how-“

“We used a surrogate,” Brian cut Dad off “We found out a while ago that Michelle and I can’t
have children of our own, and we decided that we wanted to use a surrogate to have a child,
and about six weeks ago we went through with it and, well, it worked.”

“Well who is she?” Mom asked.

“Me,” I answered without thinking.

My parents looked at me, shock taking over their features as silence fell over everyone.

“You’re kidding, right?” Dad asked after a minute, finally breaking the silence “You’re not
actually pregnant with their baby, are you?”

“I’m not kidding,” I told him “They asked me to be their surrogate and I agreed to do this for
them,”

“Are you stupid?” He almost yelled.

“Brian!” Mom scolded him.

“No, Mom, it’s alright,” I insisted “Let him get it out,”

“You don’t even have any children of your own and yet the first time you’re pregnant, it’s with
your brothers child?”

“Yes,” I nodded “This is the only time I’m going to be doing this, I don’t want children, but since I
can have them I don’t see why I shouldn’t put that to good use,”

Notes

This chapter pretty much speaks for itself!

~ LMV