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John's head felt heavy. Very heavy.
He didn't understand why, the feeling was new and it sort of scared the 16-year-old. While his father had Spruce’s egg he would complain about his head. The egg weighed on him and hurt his neck.
The correlation made the teen search through his hair and soon enough he felt a lump. A hard lump formed in the middle of the crown on his head. He went to pick it up and that's when he looked at it. Blue and red with a tuft of hair peeking up from the top, black and blue hair.
He could feel his heart beating faster after seeing it gawking at the appearance, he'd never seen an egg like this one before. That had him thinking… who was the mother?
It couldn't have been a pop troll, that's for sure, no pop troll had black hair. That red stared back up at him. The last tour they had was somewhere hidden in the rock territory. Oh my god.
Ok, fine, that's cool. But now he had a baby, and he wasn't just going to get rid of it. He'd been taking care of his brothers for so long that he had some experience. The thing was he just didn't want to mess this kid up. It was his kid. He felt like he could cry when he heard footsteps making their way to his room and he stuffed the egg back in his hair in case it was his grandmother. She couldn't know. Not yet.
“John?” He heard a whisper from the doorway. The little head peaked back in the room at him and smiled. JD smiled back. It was only Floyd. “Grandma made dinner, are you coming out anytime soon?”
“Yeah, I'll be out in a sec.” They exchanged a smile before Floyd went to walk away. JD then called after him again.
“Floyd?”
“Yeah..?”
“C’mere.” He knelt in front of his younger brother and slowly pulled the egg out. “Look.” Floyd smiled brighter than JD had ever seen him do before. “What do you think it'll be?”
“A boy. Definitely.”
“Want to hold ‘im?” Floyd quickly nodded his head and JD handed the egg to him.
“So he's yours?”
“Yeah,” He ruffled the younger troll's hair. “You're gonna be an uncle.”
…
Dinner was quiet that night. With the way Floyd reacted upon seeing his kid, he decided he would tell everyone else. Floyd was always the best test dummy with stuff like this, with emotional stuff.
when he told everyone else the pod suddenly got loud. Spruce took the egg from him and gawked at it much like JD had before. Clay was hopping around not being able to contain himself, he shouted “I'm gonna be an uncle!” over and over again.
His grandmother pulled him aside. She gave him one good look, grabbing him by the shoulders and squeezing. It made him nervous.
“You're going to do great John.” She smiled and the tears he had held earlier came. He leaped forward and gave her a big hug.
He was going to do great.