Chapter 87, Shower

 

"Where are you taking us?" Breanna asked as Eve and Natasha giggled. Izabel only smirked. "Yeah, I'd kinda like to know that, too." Howie said. Brian and Kevin shook their heads no while AJ pushed Howie along with Nick leading the way. "Where does it look like we're going?" Eve asked. "To my room?" Breanna sarcastically asked back." "Well there ya go! There's your answer." Nick replied as they stopped at the door. "Exactly how much did you all have to drink, anyway?" Natasha asked. "Well, I know I had too much. That's for sure." Howie replied, rubbing his eyes to get rid of his blurry vision. "We didn't drink, but it looks like they all did." Izabel said point to the guys. "Ready?" Natasha asked ecstatically. "Not really, but go ahead." Breanna said. She looked back at Howie who returned the gaze with a questioning face and a shrug. Nick turned the door knob and slowly opened the door.

Breanna was the first person to walk in while everyone else stayed in the hallway. "You did all of this?" She asked in awe as she looked around her colorfully decorated room. The girls nodded their head. "Did what?" Howie asked as he followed her into the room. "For me?" Breanna questioned again. "Well, not really. It's for the both of you." Kevin explained. The girls had taken the liberty of decorating Breanna's room with baby shower party favors. Light yellow, white and violet streamers were hanging all over the room from the bed posts to the ceiling to the ceiling fan in the center of the room. Yellow, green and white balloons hung around in four different corners, tied to the wall with violet ribbon. Next to the bed on the floor were 12 large boxes and pretty decorated bags with pacifiers and rattles tied to a few of them. On the large dresser was a medium sized cake decorated in white and light yellow with violet ribbon tied in bows in the center. They knew Breanna couldn't stand the color of pink and decided to leave it out as much as possible. On the other side of the dresser was a large manila envelope with "To Howie, From your Boys. OPEN ALONE." written on it. Howie gave the guys a questioning glance but they ignored it by smiling instead.

"So?" Breanna asked. "Well, open something!" Eve shouted. Breanna sat in a chair that she normally used to toss her laundry on while Izabel and Brian sat together on the floor. Kevin and Eve sat near Breanna, across from Izabel and Brian while Nick and Natasha and AJ sat on the bed. Howie sat on the floor a few feet away from Breanna. Izabel, being the closest to the gifts, handed Breanna a large box. Breanna looked at Howie with a 'help-me-you-fool' look on her face. Howie quickly got up on his knees but fell back down again. "Um, maybe you should just sit down." Breanna replied as she began to take the paper off the box. "No, I'm gonna help you." He said. Nick gave AJ an uncomfortable glance as if to say 'do you think they're gonna be able to work this out?'. AJ shrugged before turning his attention back to Breanna and Howie. Howie struggled to open the box and annoyingly turned to the women around him. "What!?" Eve asked accusingly. "You just had to tape the entire thing, didn't you?" He asked her. "Hey, I didn't tape it! The people who wrapped it for us did." She replied. Howie shook his head as he continued to open the box. "Here. Let me try." Breanna said. She pushed her index finger against the tape, causing her nail to rip it. Howie stared at her long finger nails and started to remember what it was like having them running up and down his back. "There!" She replied, breaking Howie's wondering mind. He looked up at Breanna and grinned. "Where were you just now?" She asked as she pulled some tissue paper out of the box. "Nowhere." He replied. Breanna threw a ball of tissue paper at him and giggled. "Yeah, I bet you were 'nowhere'." He laughed at her as he picked up the tissue ball that had hit him between the eyes. "You don't want to pay for that, do you?" He questioned. "Oh an offer!" AJ cooed. "AJ, put it back in your pants and stop thinking with it while you're at it! That thing gets you into so much trouble." Izabel stated. Breanna giggled as she dug through the box to find a pile of clothes on the bottom of the box.

In the box was 5 different Carter outfits. All newborn sizes. Breanna cooed happily as she showed them off. "So, that's what my money paid for? No little leather jackets? Nothing cool?" AJ asked. Eve flipped him off and Izabel glared at him. "Actually, that box over there has your gift in it. We picked it out with you in mind." Izabel explained. "Yeah, actually I picked it out for you." Natasha informed him. "Good! I knew you went along with them for a reason." AJ stated. Natasha and AJ were very similar when it came to fashion and style, but being a professional dancer, Natasha could hardly find an outlet to express her crazy personal style. She lived vicariously through AJ. AJ grabbed the box that Izabel had pointed out the minute before and tossed it to Howie. "Open it. I gotta see this!" AJ replied loudly. "Me too." Nick said under his breath. Howie opened the box and laughed. He pulled out a tight black mini skirt with shorts sewn under it. The skirt was lined in silver chain. The leotards where leopard print with silver sewn throughout. The shirt was see-through black mesh with two silver zippers on each side of it, the under shirt was leopard print. From the bottom of the shirt hung a leopard print ribbon made to hold pacifiers. The ends of the pacifier holder was a large silver clip to attach or detach from the shirt or pacifier. Along with the outfit came a hat. It was black and silver with leopard print ribbon lining it. The shoes were shiny black with large silver buckles. "Natasha, girl...we gotta go out shopping together more often!" AJ replied, happy with the outfit she had picked out in his name. "Should we use this to bring her home from the hospital?" Howie joked as he handed the outfit to Breanna to inspect. "Yeah right! The next thing the media's gonna say is that *AJ's* the father." Breanna joked back. AJ stopped laughing and looked at Breanna with a pale face. "God dammit, Breanna! I thought we agreed to never bring that night up again." Breanna sighed and blew at her bangs. "I'm sorry! I was only joking and figured you'd play along!" She shouted back. Howie felt his heart jump into his chest. Brian and Nick had their jaws on the floor while Kevin looked between Breanna, AJ, and Howie to watch their faces. Breanna and AJ sat staring at each other. The room was in complete silence. Kevin noticed that Breanna's tight lips were starting to quiver. He looked at AJ and noticed the same. Finally both doubled over laughing. "God you guys! You know us better!" Breanna shouted as she laughed. Howie sighed with relief. "Man, get a grip. You guys are way too serious sometimes." AJ added as he stood up. "I'm gonna get somethin' to drink. Anyone want anything?" The replies of 'no' or 'no thanks' were heard from the rest of the room. "Breanna, darling? A drink?" AJ asked as he stopped at the bedroom door. "No thank you, sugarlips." Both looked at each other with an adoring look in their eyes before bursting into laughter again.

After two hours of the small baby shower, Breanna and the rest of the girls went downstairs to hang out and chat while the guys, almost completely sober, stayed in Breanna's room. Kevin sat in the chair while Howie and AJ took the floor. Nick and Brian sat or laid on their stomachs on the bed. "3 out of 5 of us are havin' kids. You two better catch up!" Brian joked. AJ laughed while Nick shook his head. "No way! I'm only 23! And unlike most of you, I want to be married for at least 3 years before I become a dad!" Nick explained while Brian laughed at him. "Sometimes things don't go according to plans, Nicky." Howie replied as he started to daze off into his own little world. "Yo Nick, grab the envelope." AJ said. Nick rolled off the bed a little annoyed but grab the envelope and tossed it to Kevin. "Okay, we got you something. But, it's not going to be any good until December." Kevin explained before handing the envelope to Howie. Howie gave the rest of the guys a confused look before it turned into a smile. "Well, damn, D! Open it!" AJ shouted. "Alright, alright. I'm opening it." Howie replied. Howie carefully opened the envelope before tossing it's contents onto his lap. Out fell two pieces of thick paper folded in thirds. Howie saw the large "UA" written on the back of each and new automatically what they were. "Plane tickets?" He questioned as he opened one of the tickets to see the agenda. "I don't get it." Howie said. "Breanna's due in May, right?" Brian asked as Howie nodded his head. "And by December, the baby will be 7 months old, right?" Nick asked. Again, Howie nodded his head. "And things are getting better between you two. So, this is basically a week vacation for the two of you after the baby's born." AJ finished explaining. "And if Breanna's gonna be anything like Eve, she'll probably want to take the baby with you. Since the baby will be so young, you won't really need a ticket for her." Kevin added. Howie turned the tickets over in his hand to read London as the destination. "Why London?" Howie asked. "It's one of your favorite places and Bree never shut up about buying a house there while we were touring. I was tempted to give her a one way ticket to England, she was *that* annoying." AJ complained. "Just don't tell her about it until you both are...well...um.." Nick tried to explain. "Yeah, I know." Howie finished for him.

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