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Billy can hear very timid 'Knock, knock, knock' on the door.

"Billzz, may I come in?" Mike's shaggy head is squeezed between the door and the door frame. He's bashfully smiling.

Billy walks away from the mirror tapping on her high heels – today she has to look taller than Nina! The young witch cut her hair short again, and now she is regretting a bit, although, she can't help but admit that the cocky blond haircut suits her navy-blue pantsuit with slim-hip and elegant trousers.

"You're already inside," she chuckles, subtly touching her tongue piercing on her gums.

"You look great!"

"I know it without your reminding," the witch giggles. "Aren't you supposed to be drinking cocktails in the garden with other guests?"

"I came to give you a present from Sarah and me," he says, and hands her a small velvet box. He looks a little funny and shy like Shaggy from Scoobidoo. He obviously did not fix the tie himself: he would never have made such a good knot in his life (it was either Astrid or Lev who caught him and helped). "A gift for the two of you lies in the living room with other presents. This one is for you personally."

Billy carefully takes the box, "I really hope it's not an engagement ring: I'd be a bit embarrassed to marry three of you at once. Wow, what beautiful earrings!" She takes out hanging earrings made of blue turquoise in the shape of two squirrels. Billy immediately puts them on. "Thank you, Mike!"

"I'm so glad you like it. You should have seen Sarah; she was so excited when we stumbled across them at one middle-east bazaar."

"And where is my baby sister? Why do you courageously hand me a gift, receiving all the gratitude alone." Billy smiles looking at her reflection in the mirror. Two squirrels are swaying merrily as Billy is turning her head to get a better look at them.

"She's kinda busy right now... she's in a bathroom," he whispers, putting his hand to his cheek as if someone can overhear their conversation.

Billy giggles, "I hope she hasn't overeaten sweets again. Do you remember when she was nine she ate so much sweets and got super sick at her birthday party."

"It's a bit different..." Mike looks like he wants to say something, but he's too afraid to confess.

"Shut uppp!" gasps Billy.

"I didn't say anything," Mike steps back in fear.

The young witch cackles, "My baby sister is expecting a babyyy, awwww!"

"Hush, hush! We haven't told anyone yet. Sarah will kill me if she finds out I blabbed about our baby."

"Actually, you haven't said anything until now," the blonde bites her lower lip, insolently grinning at him.

"Duuude..." Mike looks very confused.

"Why didn't she tell me the news herself?"

"We only found out about it in the morning. She peed on a test thingy. Several times! You know, dude, Sarah begged me not to say anything because she didn't want to grab the biggest piece of the pie today! Today is your and Nina's day!"

Billy hugs Mike tenderly, "Take care of her, bog Mike. You gave me two wonderful gifts today: I'm going to be an aunt, and that microwave oven you both dragged to the living room is certainly among top five coolest presents!"

"How do you know about the oven?"

"Mike, if Her Highness offers you to work for MI6, don't accept the offer, you will give away all kingdom secrets!"

"Perhaps, I will be offered a job there because any suit fits me perfectly! Just like James Bond!"

"Suits suit only me, boy!"

"You're right," smiles Mike. "You are the raddest bride I've ever seen!"

"Heyyy! What about Sarah? You knocked up my little sister, and now you are telling me I'm the raddest bride you've ever seen," Billy is grinning, looking at him.

Mike blushes, "You know her, she's such a feminist, she will probably propose to me later herself," he smiles bashfully and apologetically for not proposing to Sarah, "I'm sure she'll find the name for our baby too, and it will be some kind of unisex or suitable for non-binary people."

"Mike, you have to promise me something. Do you realise that you are going to have not only a baby girl, but a baby witch too? It's not going to be easy."

"We don't know the baby's gender yet," he says bashfully. "It's too early."

"Mike, you will have a daughter, and she will be a witch. The fact that Sarah hasn't awaken her own powers does not mean that she will not give birth to a very powerful enchantress. I know it, I feel it. You should not be afraid of her and her powers, you'll have to accept her for who she is or you'll have to deal with her mean lesbian aunts!"

"I swear to you to love her more than anyone! And, you know, instead of having tea with teddy bears and dolls, we'll make potions with her or fight garden gnomes. I'm ready if it's what she needs. Sarah told me you have very nasty gnomes in your parents' garden. And, and... I'll buy a cauldron! Yes, a cauldron! Where can I buy cauldrons? At some supermarket for witches?"

Billy hugs a father-to-be again, "I love you both very much. I believe you will be a better father to her than Andrew was to me."

"I'm definitely not going to send bat shifters to scary my daughter."

"Ahhh, I see, I see! Sarah told you everything. She trusts you a lot."

"If I misbehave, the women of this clan will erase my memory: I simply have no choice but to be a good boy."

"I'm sure your Sarah has already said goodbye to her breakfast. You have to go now. Thank you for the gifts!"

"Billz, you ma said you wanted to date me when you were thirteen..."

"What?? Go to your pregnant girlfriend, bog Mike, or I'll turn you into a frog. Why are you looking at me so surprised? I'm not joking... or should I tell ma what you did to my lil sis, my baby girl, my precious..."

"Okay okay! I got it! Hahah! Classic Mrs. Greenwald, such a prankster: you and I together! A load of old cobblers, that's what I call it! Well, I'm going to be the part of your family anyways..."

"My ma is a big straight rainbow-chaser, Mike! Get out of here, boy! I don't want to talk to you all day."

***

Left alone, Billy knocks on the wall, Nina answers her with a knock from the opposite side. The squirrel heard the whole conversation perfectly well.

"I love you," Billy says in a whisper. "See you in the garden in fifteen minutes. "Don't forget to put on your garter!"