One Good Fling Deserves Another
Part 5
By: Ashley and Emily
One Good Fling Deserves Another
Part 5
By: Ashley and Emily
A story about the love/hate relationship of Penny Marshall and Michael McKean
Well, it's definite. Penny is pregnant. She's excited, Mike's excited, and Tracy is excited. Penny had to stop Tracy from telling the world cause how would it look over the tabloids that Penny's pregnant when it isn't even her husband's baby? Once they found that out her life would be ruined, she simply told Tracy to keep quiet for a while.
It's the next day at work and Mike got chewed out for not returning to work after he left and Penny is DYING to tell someone, but who? She reads over the script entitled "The Bully Show," ya know the episode where Lenny and Squiggy set Laverne up with their foreman. She sees there is a little bit of physical comedy, but not a whole lot. She sees in one part she jumps on Mike to keep him from Biff, so she takes Mike aside and she has him catch her so she doesn't fall and hurt the baby. Just then, Garry strolled courageously up behind Penny. "Penny," he said, his voice somewhat booming. She rolled her eyes and said impatiently, "Yes Gar?"
"Where've you been?"
"I told ya before, sick, Garry, sick," she said defiantly.
"With...?"
Penny's eyes welled up with tears. Why, I'm not sure, I guess it's one of those mood swings. "Just leave me alone would?!" she cried and ran off to her dressing room, slamming the door behind her.
"I'll go talk to her," Cindy said, rushing off. When she approached the door, she knocked lightly. "Pen?" she asked sweetly. "Can I come in?" She heard a faint sniffle, and shrugged her shoulders. She twisted the knob and walked in, closing the door behind her so as not to give everyone a free show. Penny was sobbing into a pillow.
"Pen, what's wrong?!" she asked.
"Nothin'!" she cried, slightly angry.
She sat down and put her arm around her. "What's wrong? You can tell me," she said in a comforting tone.
Penny looked up at her, with a look that said 'let's hope I can trust you.' "Okay ... but you must swear not to tell anyone else ... or I'll kill ya. I mean it Cin! Okay?"
"I promise!" replied Cindy.
"I'm pregnant."
"You're what?!"
Penny nodded.
"And you're crying over that?!"
Penny shook her head. "No, no, it's not just that. It's M... M..." she stuttered.
"It's M...?" Cindy asked.
"It's Michael's."
Cindy's eyes bulged out, and her jaw nearly dropped to the ground.
"MICHAEL'S?! As in McKean?!" Cindy shrieked. Penny nodded. "How did this happen?" Cindy questioned. Then Cindy realized what she just said and corrected herself quickly. "I mean I KNOW how it happened but ... why?"
"I dunno. I guess it's been coming on pretty gradually. We started seeing each other off the set and aside from our family and then one day, BAM! It happened, ya know?" Cindy just nodded.
"I still just can't believe it. I mean I always thought you and Rob were the "ideal" couple. Ya never had any fights, you weren't crawling all over each other and holding hands like some people do until you can't stand it. And you never really played all that kissy face junk with him..." Cindy trailed off as she realized what was going on. Penny and Rob got along okay, they were great friends. That's what had brought them together, friendship. Could a great friendship full of love have been mistaken for a different kind of love? Well, that seemed to be the situation here. They were two lonely people who needed each other at the time ... but maybe only as friends, and not as romantic interests. Penny just simply nodded. She figured Cindy caught on.
"How did Rob take the news?" Cindy asked.
"He doesn't know. Only you, Mike, Tracy, and I know. Also Tracy thinks it's Rob's Kid."
"How did Mike take it?"
"He was pretty happy" Penny answered. Cindy sighed.
"This is one heck of a situation. It would also help a ton if you two weren't married to two different people"
"Don't remind me. Please, try not to remind me of that."
"When's Rob coming home?" Cindy asked, trying to sort of change the focus of this discussion.
"Tonight," Penny said, her voice sounding somewhat melancholy.
"You gonna tell him?" Cindy asked.
"OF COURSE I'm gonna tell him," Penny retorted. "I just don't know how..."
"Look, just calm down! You just sit him down and say 'Rob, I'm havin' a baby.'" Cindy said.
"Real subtle," said Penny sarcastically.
"Well do you have any better ideas?" Cindy asked.
"No..." Penny replied.
"That's what I thought," Cindy said.