Cast:
Yuki Nakama as Jun Nakamura
Adam Driver as Adam Sackler
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Chapter 1: My only one-night stand had to end like this
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The night sky is full of stars but no moon when the dark-headed girl slip out of the bed and her skin prickles with goosebumps.
The guy on her side groans at something and she freeze on her spot, scared that she could woke him up. But then he murmurs something else in his sleep and his breath stabilizes.
She pick up her panties and bra and put them back on her body, then she kneel under the bed looking for her shoes and the rest of her clothes. As she got dressed, she observe the guy sleeping. Adam, he said it was his name. He looks taller now that he's naked. It's as if as he got rid of this clothes, his frame got bigger.
The girl sigh and twisted her mouth scolding herself. A one night stand isn't really her style, not to mention she is a very proper woman when it comes to her cultural standards back in Japan but Adam came and enchanted her with his cute smile and lame pick-up lines. She didn't think her body was that weak but here she is.
Before leaving, the girl thought if she should say goodbye, or at least write a note telling him she had to go. But probably tomorrow morning he won't even remember he had sex with her tonight, so she settle for leaving a kiss on his cheek and admire his broad back one last time.
"Sayonara (Goodbye), Adam," She whispered softly and she's careful as she close the door. She can't wait to get home to take a bubble bath and sleep in her own bed.
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{Two Days Before Adam's encounter with the girl}
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"Jessa, stop, stop," Adam tells his ex-girlfriend and grabs her by the arms so she stops kissing him. He has her sitting on his lap and grinding on him.
"Why? Something's wrong?" she says and Adam's eye twitches at how she always sounds like she was drunk.
"Yes," he says and gets up from the sofa. "Everything is wrong, you can't just come back and demand to have sex and pretend everything is fucking good".
"Why you always have to make a drama out of everything?" She huffs and puts her feet up on the sofa. "Seriously, Adam. Grow up".
"Yeah, I need to grow up. So as you. Last time you were here, we fucking destroyed the apartment over a stupid argument". Adam walks side to side, exasperated that he always ends up in toxic relationships.
"It wasn't a stupid argument," she says in her thick accent. "It was about Hannah and how we fucking destroyed her".
"Fucking destroyed her?" He shakes his head and puts his hands on his hips. "Hannah moved on, she has a baby now, we should do the same".
"Have a baby?" Jessa bites her lip.
"No!" he immediately says. "I meant move on".
"No, I'm not letting you do this," she gets up and pushes him by the chest. "Not after I betrayed one of my best friends for you".
"Again with that fucking thing," he runs his hands through his face exasperated. "You told me that we could die on the same bed and you wouldn't forgive me. How the fuck am I supposed to have a relationship with you after that? Uh, how the fuck?"
Adam pants and waits for Jessa to give him an answer. He clearly reminds those words and how much they hurt at the time. If she felt so guilty and conflicted about it, she should have left, instead of staying and making their lives a hell.
"Fuck you," Jessa spits out at him. She walks and pushes him with her shoulder.
And Adam knows this is the best way for her to understand that whatever they had, it's over. She grabs her purse and slams the door.
"Fuck you, Adam!" she screams in the hallway.
His body falls on the sofa and he tries to count to ten so he doesn't lose control and punch a wall or destroy something. He palms his jeans and takes a condom out of a pocket. The same condom Jessa brought, along with her intentions to get back with him.
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Adam rouses from a heavy slumber and with his eyes still closed, he stretches his arm to the left, only to find an empty space. He rolls over and sees that she's not in the bed.
"Kid?" he says out loud but everything is silence. He rubs his tired eyes with the insides of his palms and climbs out of the bed.
"Jun?" His apartment isn't that big so after checking the bathroom and the kitchen, he realizes she's gone. Naked and with a pout on his lips, he thinks it's a shame when she was gone. A one-night stand can turn into a one-morning stand.
He first met Jun, a Japanese young woman who took abroad from her home and permanently living in New York as a US citizen, on the next day of his fight with Jessa, where he found her in a book store of used books. He followed her around as she look at the shelters, he liked the way her face scrunched as she read the back of the books. As if she was deciding that if they were good enough. He also liked that she laughed at his jokes of bad taste, instead of freaking out. His original plan wasn't to taking her back to his place, he just felt like talking to a cute girl. But he was carrying that condom Jessa brought and Jun's smile told him she wanted to use it.
"She used for my body," he says to himself and then snorts. At least he should have asked Jun for her phone number. In case, he wanted to be used again by her.
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{Six months later after their one-night stand}
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"Maybe I should start buying clothes and a few blankets. What do you think, little bean?" Jun was walking on the street and talking to her baby in her mind. It's something she began to do after the shock of finding out she was pregnant passed.
"My only one-night stand and this happens." But she quickly discard her thoughts and run her hand over her belly. It's not very big yet but she can feel her little bean, the name she gave to her baby, kicking and moving every day more.
Two months after Jun's wild night with Adam, she decided to do a pregnancy test. She already knew the results. If she doesn't get her period after having sex it could only mean one thing.
Jun gave herself three whole days to cry and panic about the future. Then, she wiped her tears and promised herself and the baby that she'll do this. She made an appointment with her gynecologist so she could confirm what the pregnancy test said and since that day she haven't look back in regret.
"Do you want ice cream, little bean? How about…?" She's too focused in her own mind that she doesn't see someone in front of her and she bump against them. "Oh, I'm so sorry, I wasn't… Adam!" Will it be too obvious to run away and pretend she didn't see him?
"Jun?" Adam observes her from head to toe. She cross her arms above her belly and he takes them out of it.
"Na- What are you doing? Stop!" Jun step back and look at her sides, looking for an escape. She can feel her little bean kicking inside of her, probably scared at her mother's reaction.
"You're pregnant," he says and it doesn't sound like a question. "Is it mine?"
"No!" Jun says quickly. "This baby isn't yours, so don't worry". She doesn't want to give him the chance to tell her that he's not going to take care of the baby and that she's on her own. Of course, she is on her own, she have no problem with it but he doesn't have the right to say it.
"How many months you have?" He tugs her arm and walks out of the middle of the street.
"Six months."
"We hooked up six months ago," he says and his head begins to do calculations.
She wanted to slap herself for being so careless. "I-it's not yours. The baby isn't yours".
"So you fucked another guy the next day you were with me?" He raises his voice and sees the hurt look in her deep brown eyes.
"My sex life is none of your business", Jun replies. Some tears prickle her eyes and she seriously cursed the pregnancy hormones.
"Why did you leave?" His voice lowers several tones and he sounds needy.
"Because…," She looked away and feels her cheeks gone wet from her tears. "Because it's what you're supposed to do after a one night stand".
Jun break down in tears and feel so vulnerable. She didn't expect she'd find the father of her baby on a random street, less have to come up with a lie.
"Hey, come here, kid," Adam cradles her in his arms and allows herself to surrender, needing to feel his embrace. "Well, you're going to have a kid so I don't think you're a kid anymore".
"Probably," She laugh and sniff.
"I'm gonna take care of you," he mumbles against her forehead. No matter how much she denies it, he knows he's the father of the baby.
"What? No!" She breaks free from his hug. "Why would you do that? It's not your baby, I told you!"
"I don't care, I wanna be with you and him… or her. Is it a boy or a girl?"
"You don't have to! I don't need your pity!" Jun doesn't want the leftovers of his love or that he sees her as someone who can't take of herself.
"I don't pity you. I wanna fucking be with you! What's so crazy about it?" he yells and some people look at him. Why is this tall guy is screaming to a shorter pregnant girl?
"Because I'm pregnant, Adam. Or are you going to tell me it's your dream to have a family?" She scoffed.
"Maybe, you don't know". He remembers when he tried to be with Hannah before her baby was born. He really wants to have a family, a baby. And that child she's carrying is his.
"You're delusional." Jun shake her head and turn around to walk away from him.
"I'll follow you around until you accept, I don't care." He runs behind her and soon he's next to her again.
Adam and Jun walk like a couple of streets as she ignores him and he's waiting for her to say yes. After realizing he's not letting go of her sight before saying her next words. "Tomorrow. I have a doctor appointment, you can come".
"Sure, yes," He said, smiling and she feels a little bad at how excited he gets. She doesn't want him to make ideas about her and him being together. They were never together, to begin with.
"But I'm not moving in with you or anything," Jun clarifies him as he only nodded as a scolded child.
"But, can I walk you home? Or wherever you're going?"
"Yes, you can." She keeps on walking to her apartment. Her feet are sore and she's hungry. Who cares if he knows where she lives? "And it's a girl. I'm having a girl".
Adam's eyes widen in surprise but then he grins. The biggest grin he has ever have.
"I call her little bean." Jun give him a half-smile, it's cute how without saying a word, he showed how excited is.
"Little bean," he says and very gently, he reaches for her hand with his own.