At this point in time, a young brunette woman was sitting on her sofa, impatiently waiting for her beloved fiance to get home from work. She held a folder tightly in her hands as she sighed of annoyance at her fiance's lack of presence. Where is he?! He was supposed to be here 15 minutes ago. She checked her phone to find no new messages. Just as she was about to dial his number, as if on a cue, she heard a car park outside. She excitedly jumped to open the door and greet the tall, raven-haired guy.
"Natsume!" She exclaimed with a big smile plastered on her face as she gave him a tight hug.
"Polka," he teased her in a playful tone.
"My name is Mikan, not Polka!" the girl argued before surrendering into his deep kiss. She was so indulged in the kiss that she had forgotten that he was late, and why she was waiting for him in the first place. Natsume dropped the briefcase that he had been holding and used his now free hands to caress her. As he broke the kiss, he quickly noticed the folder that she had clutched in her hands.
"What's that?" He asked and saw Mikan bite her lower lip in response. He was unable to read her expression. She seemed happy, but anxious all at the same time.
She stuttered as she took her time to find her words, but in the end decided to hand the folder over to him, "They're hospital sheets. Why don't you look into it yourself?"
"Okay, but let's go inside first," Natsume closed the front door that was still open, grabbed his briefcase, and proceeded to walk in his house.
The couple sat on the sofa in the living room, next to each other. Natsume raised one of his eyebrows at Mikan when he saw her fidgeting with the hem of her skirt.
"You seem nervous."
"I-I just don't know how you'll respond."
Natsume opened the folder and carefully read the documents that were neatly placed inside, as Mikan scanned his face for any hint of reaction. Once Natsume finished reading the documents, he glanced into Mikan's beautiful brown eyes and watched his anxious fiancee in amusement. She was unable to tell what he was thinking, which was one of the the reasons why she found his stoic face so frustrating at times.
He decided to tease her with a smirk, "So how am I going to deal with the two of you running around here now? I thought just one of you was enough for me to handle already."
Mikan rolled her eyes and scoffed at his comment. She knew that he was only joking, but proceeded to say with a pout, "You're so mean, Natsume."
She continued talking, but now in a more serious tone, "How do you feel about me being pregnant?"
By the look in Mikan's eyes, Natsume knew that she wanted a serious answer and needed assurance that he was happy about the situation if he didn't want her to lose sleep for the next five nights. She was pregnant after all. He didn't want to stress her out. But being Natsume, of course he had to respond in his own cocky way.
"I'm excited for how good looking and intelligent the baby will be, assuming that he will take after his father's traits."
Although his response was one that was so typically arrogant of him, Mikan smiled at the fact that Natsume was just as happy as she was about this unplanned child.
"How do you know the baby will be a he? Could be a baby girl."
Natsume "As long as he or she inherits my traits, there will be nothing to worry about."
Mikan rolled her eyes at him and rested her head on his chest. Natsume enjoyed the smell of her hair and kissed the top of her head before protectively wrapping his arms around the woman that he loved so much.
Natsume and Mikan exited their go-to cafe after a nice dinner date together. As soon as they went outside and were exposed to the outside air, Mikan immediately shivered. While the evening has started off moderately warm, by the time Mikan and Natsume were done with their date, the temperature outside had drastically dropped and it had started snowing outside.
"It's s-s-soooo c-c-cold." Mikan managed to utter through her shivering. She was wearing a short black lacy dress for her date. She figured that her belly would start growing and she would start putting on some weight soon, and it would be her chance now during her first trimester to wear all of her sexy dresses.
Natsume, on the other hand, was wearing jeans with a long-sleeved t-shirt and a coat. He had been smart enough to look at the weather forecast. He had even warned Mikan (after seeing how she was dressed) about how the temperatures would drop below freezing, but she simply laughed off his concerns saying that he was just paranoid and overprotective because she's pregnant now.
Natsume gave Mikan his coat and wrapped her tightly in his arms as they walked. The couple finally made it to their car in the parking lot, and as soon as Natsume started up the car, Mikan immediately blasted on the heat.
"I told you so." Natsume smirked at her as she wrapped herself in his coat "You should really listen to me when I tell you to put on a coat next time."
Mikan rolled her eyes and sarcastically said "Yes dear, you are always right. What would I ever do without you?"
The couple was chattering as they were driving down the road back to the house where they lived together. They were stopped at a red light as Mikan talked about their wedding plans and when to place their wedding now that she was having a pregnant. She went on about how she wouldn't fit in her wedding dress if she got married while pregnant. As the traffic light turned green, Natsume, while still listening to his fiancee, started driving again.
CRASH
All of a sudden, before anyone expected anything, there was a collision. Natsume and Mikan had been t-boned by a drunk driver who had failed to stop at his red light and ended up smashing into their car in the middle of the intersection. But it had not stopped there. Their car practically slid through the snowy roads and hit a tree. At this impact, all of the windshields and windows were shattered and witnesses could see blood oozing out of the heads of the unresponsive Natsume and Mikan.
Quickly, the witnesses gathered to call for an ambulance and the two were rushed into the hospital.
About a week had passed in the hospital before Natsume had recovered from his injuries. Mikan was more severely impacted because the car had been hit on the passenger side where she had been seating. When Natsume had regained consciousness and was made aware of his surroundings, the first thing he wanted to do was see his Mikan. The doctors had reported to Natsume that she was in the ICU and that her head had been hit very hard. They further informed him that this could potentially result in brain injury. Natsume was devastated. Everything was going well. They were happily in love and engaged, both with successful careers, and the two were even expecting a baby. And then this had to happen.
Natsume inquired the doctors about the baby. In a sympathetic tone, they explained to him that her pregnancy was still viable thus far, but it was extremely likely that she would have a miscarriage due to the physical stress that she was currently under.
For the next two weeks, Natsume stayed besides her, watching her for as long as he could. It was like he practically lived in that small hospital room with her. His beard had grown stubbles and his eyes had bags under them from the lack of sleep. The doctors had been giving him reassurance that she was slowly improving. And by some miracle, she had not yet had a miscarriage. Her pregnancy was still viable and fetus remained perfectly healthy. Even the doctors were extremely surprised and stated how rare this was.
As Natsume watched Mikan in her deep slumber wondering when she would recover and gain consciousness, he heard a small grunt. He jumped at the sound and found that it had come out of Mikan. He immediately called for the doctors and informed them of what had happened.
After a few more minutes, Mikan slowly started waking up as her doctors and Natsume watched her. Her eyes fluttered open and she took her time to absorb her surroundings. She recognized that she was currently lying down in a hospital bed. She glanced around the room and stopped when her eyes met Natsume's. She gasped.
Natsume gave her a small smile and leaned down to kiss her. However, he froze in place when he heard her sternly say "What the hell Hyuuga. Why am I here?"
Natsume was taken aback at how she had spoken to him. Hyuuga? When was the last time she called me that? Natsume's mind wandered back years ago to their high school days when Mikan practically hated Natsume and addressed him coldly by his last name. Mikan never spoke to him like that in the recent days.
"You were in a car accident with me Polka. You've been unconscious for about three weeks now."
Mikan looked at him in bewilderment, "Why would I ever agree to be in the same car as you? Were you kidnapping me or something Hyuuga?"
Natsume couldn't believe how the once loving fiancee was talking to him. He looked at his doctor and said "This- the way she's speaking it me. This isn't normal. What is wrong with her?"
The doctor took CT scans of her brain and did several tests on her before concluding that Mikan had large impacts on the part of her brain that was associated with memory. Mikan had suffered from memory loss and could not remember any of the time period in her life when she and Natsume fell in love. To her, Natsume was the same Natsume that she had hated back in high school.
The doctors and Natsume had informed Mikan of that fact that she was pregnant. Mikan was surprised to say the least. She noticed the diamond ring that was placed on the ring finger of her left hand. She gasped, "Wha- Am I married? Where is my husband?" before quickly adding "Who is my husband?"
Natsume decided to inform her, "Mikan we are engaged to get married soon. And the baby you are carrying is mine"
"What?" Mikan spoke in utter shock and a bit of disgust "Did you force me to sleep with you and knock me up?! You are so fucked up Hyuuga."
From Mikan's perspective, it was understandable why she was so bitter and confused. In addition to not being able to remember any details from the last few years of her life, she was now having to interact with the one guy she hated the most. The only memories that she had of him were from high school when she found him to be the most arrogant, selfish, and inconsiderate jerk in the entire world. And now she was supposed to be convinced that they were somehow engaged and expecting a baby together? This was all too much to take in. It felt as if she was in a nightmare.
A/N: This story was largely inspired by The Vow