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"Let me get this straight, sugar..." Jacqueline said as she stood up from where she'd been seated on Lita and Edge's hotel room bed.  "You're pregnant??"

The redhead nodded, her gaze falling slightly in her nervous embarrassment.  Granted, all of these women were her friends, but it still felt odd to be telling the entire group of them this news.  She'd have much rather been able to do so one-on-one, as she had with Trish - although the petite blonde and Molly were the easiest for her to talk to, as they were her two closest friends - aside from Jeff Hardy, and, of course, Edge.  She supposed she would be telling Jeff the news soon as well... Then again, Edge would probably do the honors, as he and the rainbow-haired young man were pretty tight.

"Wow..." Dawn Marie cut in, glancing Lita over as though she were a science experiment of some sort.  "That's unbelievable!  And yet you still wrestled tonight!"

"She didn't know..." Trish said to the brunette, refraining from rolling her eyes.

"My God, Lita..." Molly said as she reached out to gently grasp the redhead's left wrist.  "Is...is everything...?"

"Yes, everything's fine - the doctor said so."

"Well, thank God for that," Ivory said.  "You know, Cinnamon," she said, using the pet name she'd made up for Lita, "you really know how to give a lady a scare."

"Sorry, Ive..."

The older woman gave her a gentle smile.  "How far along are you?"

"Three weeks..."

"So, what are you going to do?" Torrie asked as she eyed the high-flying diva with concern.  Stacy, at the platinum blonde's side, swatted her in the arm and gave her a disapproving look.

Lillian joined the leggy young blonde in staring with shocked disbelief at Torrie's candor.

Finally, Nidia was the one who took it upon herself to actually speak what was on all their minds regarding the blonde's blunt question.

"How can you ask her such a thing?  Have you no shame, Torrie?"

The tall blonde diva glanced around, her blue eyes wide.  "I didn't...I just..."

"Well, anyway," Lita spoke, deciding she might as well answer the question, "I'm keeping the baby - Edge and I are keeping it, that is.  There was never any question about that."

"That's great, Lita," Dawn Marie said.  "But what are you going to do?  I mean, you obviously won't be able to wrestle..."  The former ECW diva's expression was serious.

"It doesn't matter...it's not like I'll have to worry about money or anything," the redhead said.  "I mean, even if I don't get a salary, Edge still gets his..."

"This is amazing," Lillian said, a lovely smile on her face as she met Lita's eyes.  "You're going to be a mother...Congratulations, honey!"

Everything she and Edge had said to each other back in the hospital suddenly came rushing back to Lita, and it felt even more real now, upon the ring announcer's kind words.  She smiled gently and reached out to take hold of the little blonde's outstretched hand.

"Thank you, Lil."

The pretty petite blonde moved forth and hugged the redhead, who embraced her back gratefully.  They separated upon the sound of one of the divas suddenly clearing her throat.  Everyone looked up and turned toward Stephanie, who'd been silent up until now.

"Ladies, I have an announcement to make..."  She glanced at one of her fellow brunettes.  "Molly?"

Molly realized instantly what the other woman was referring to, and her face displayed recognition of such.  "Oh...right."

Lita eyed Stephanie suspiciously, wondering if she was going to confess to being pregnant as well.

"Ladies, I have reason to believe that, somehow, our guys have figured out that one of the divas is pregnant.  Well..."  She snickered.  "Two, of the divas, that is - as we now know about Lita.  Anyway, I spoke to Molly about this earlier tonight.  And I'll ask all of you the same thing I asked her - have any of you noticed your man acting strange?"

"Can you define 'strange?'" Nidia quipped.  "I mean, you do know my boyfriend, don't you?"

Stephanie smirked.  "Okay, I'll clarify - I don't mean 'strange' in the sense that Jeff Hardy is acting normal...For instance, tonight, Chris was asking me all sorts of weird questions - like how I was feeling and such."

"Oh!" Torrie said, nodding, although her face soon wore a puzzled look.

"Kurt didn't want me to go out to referee that match tonight - that's for sure," Jackie said.

"And Test didn't want me to compete in the lingerie contest with Torrie," Stacy stated.

"Well, obviously, I didn't have the same experiences they had," Lillian offered.  "But Brock did express concern over me standing to announce tonight..."  She looked thoughtful for a beat.  "And come to think of it, he looked nervous all night...pale, too, as if he'd seen a ghost.  I've never seen him like that."

Stephanie nodded, a grin of satisfaction spreading across her face.  "You see?  What'd I tell you?"

"The guys definitely know about one of you being pregnant," Lita said in agreement with the brunette, and all eyes shifted to her.  She nodded.  "Stephanie is right," she said.  "Edge thought the pregnancy test belonged to me - and before anyone asks how he knew about it, he told me that Bubba found it in our locker room in a trash can."

"My Bubba?" Dawn Marie asked, a look of surprise on her pretty face.

"Right.  After he found it, he held a meeting with all of our guys," the redhead explained.

Stacy's brown eyes widened a bit.  "So...when you told Edge the pregnancy test wasn't yours, did you...?"  She swallowed nervously.

"No, I didn't tell him whose it really was.  I told him he was going to have to be patient and wait until she's ready to reveal herself..."









Part 13

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