So I realize by me updating chapters, it slightly messes with the timeline in the earlier chapters. Please just bear with me, as I'm going to make it all match up by the time that I get up to chapter 8 (most likely the last that I will update). I'm sorry for the confusion. I just found some really great inspiration, but I hadn't set the story up the way I needed to deploy all of the ideas I've put together. These early chapters are also full of plot holes. I'm going to try my hardest to make it as good as a can for you all! Thanks for hanging in!
When God Closes a Door
Chapter 2
Ren X Kyoko
Kyoko rubbed her temples with irritation and anxiety as she paced the bathroom floor. How could she had been so stupid?! They didn't use protection, and she hadn't even thought of using birth control. On top of that it wasn't a trigger to her when she had missed her period SIX DAYS AGO.
There was no way that she was pregnant. She wouldn't let herself believe it. IT hadn't happened too long ago. It was for sure too late for her to have been ovulating. As her timer reached the two minute mark she began a more frantic pace, holding her hands together in an attempt to keep herself from turning over the little white stick before it was done. The other two tests that she had taken prior had to be lies. They give false positives, right? She held on to that tread of hope as she continued to wait.
She thought back to her lunch with Kanae. It had been so long since she had seen anyone who made her smile the way she did that afternoon. They talked about each others experiences. Kanae was more than excited to talk about the French people and their culture and how she swore that she would live there and never look back if she ever had the chance. She had opted for a lot of modeling jobs lately, and was beginning to move away from acting. As they spoke about where their careers were taking them, they gleefully reminisced about their soda commercial, where even though they had hated each other, that was the beginning of the friendship that was so dear to them both.
Kyoko missed being around her. She was so beautiful and Kyoko admired her as an actress, model, and a person.
"Mokooooo-channn, you're so prettyyyyyyy." Kyoko said, sighing and turning to look at the people who walked along the streets.
"Oh when will you stop calling me that," Kanae picked, "and you're pretty too. In fact, I can't believe that Tsuraga-san hasn't already married you simply because he can't resist you."
Kyoko turned bright red. They hadn't got married, but he for sure couldn't resist. And neither had she been able to.
"KYOKO!" A smile creeped across Kanae's faceas she leaned towards a highly nerve-wracked Kyoko. Kyoko had given her secret away, and was desperately looking for a way out of it. "Tsuraga-san has been able to resist you, right?"
Kyoko squirmed. She didn't want to lie to her best friend. She just looked to her lap and mumbled "No."
"What?! Why am I just now finding this out? You were safe, weren't you?"
Why hadn't she thought about it before now? She could have easily prevented all of the anxiety she was experiencing at the moment, and the possibility of her having a child out of wedlock.
Her timer went off.
All she saw was a blue plus sign.
"Shit."
Kyoko had needed a minute in the waiting room after she had seen the doctor. She had held onto the slim slice of hope that this still wasn't happening. She looked at the papers that she carried in her hands that clearly stated in big capital letters "RESULTS: PREGNANT"
She wasn't sure what she should think about. She knew that this would for sure affect her career. Not only in what she would be able to do, but her image as well. What would people think of someone who just got knocked up without a husband. And Ren. How would that affect his career? How would he react? Would he regret everything? Would he even want the child?
Her thoughts kept her occupied through the entire afternoon. She wasn't sure what she would do. There were options, for sure, but she didn't feel right making that kind of decision before she had even told it's father.
She glanced at the phone, wondering whether he would pick up or not, and then if he did pick up, what she would say. That hadn't spoke at all since he left, and she was nervous. She wanted to talk to him so bad, but she didn't want to be reject in her fragile moment of decision.
She knew one thing for sure, and that was that she absolutely had to tell him. She didn't want to keep a secret from him, and she could only imagine how it would be worse if it got to him by any other means. But how would that conversation go? 'Hi Ren, just thought I would call to see how it was going. Good? Me too. Oh, and by the way, I'm pregnant with your child. Okay, that's all, bye.' She didn't know what to say, but before she could talk herself out of it, she had already heard the first dial tone.
"Hello?" His voice stunned her out of her trance.
"Uh, hey, Ren."
"Kyoko, how are you?"
She was hoping to be able to tell whether he was happy or not that it was her voice that he heard over the line. Then maybe she could prepare herself for what he would say when she told him the news. "I'm doing well, what about you?"
"I'm doing great. Nothing is different."
Since they had fought, the conversation between the two seemed slightly un-natural, like they just met, but had nothing in common. She decided to steer clear of more tension by asking about the states, and how everything with the movie was going and as they kept talking it became more natural and easy between them. Ren had arrived in California late the afternoon that he had left. He was in Los Angeles at the moment, and had spent the majority of his three weeks away getting to know the set and running lines. He told her about the plan to start filming on the following Sunday. His voice sounded sad, like he was missing her, giving Kyoko a bittersweet feeling. She didn't want him to be upset, but it comforted her that he seemed like he missed her.
"That's nice."
"It is. But I miss you, Kyoko."
" I miss you too, but Ren, I need to tell you something." Her heart-rate shot up to the highest point in her history. She could feel her heart tighten up as the silence over the phone line grew deeper and deeper
"What is it?"
"Well, I went to the doctor today…" She stopped. She was chickening out. She feared his response. She didn't want him to hate her.
"Kyoko, what's wrong?"
"Ren, I-I'm pregnant."
Her heart felt like it was about to pop out of her chest.
