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Chapter 4: Sticky Situation:

Lelouch was walking home from school the next day. Along the way, he walked by a news stand. His eyes widened at what he saw. On the front cover of a magazine, there was a picture of Euphemia running with her hand was covering her mouth. The title in huge letters: "Princess Euphemia Is Pregnant!" Lelouch grabbed a copy and started reading the article.

"Euphie!" Lelouch growl in angry and in worry. He started wondering how did it happen. He walked off as fast as he could and went home. He went straight to Euphemia's room where Euphemia and Nunnally were. "Euphie?! Did you read today's paper?!"

Euphemia took the paper from Lelouch's hand. Her eyes widened as she read the headlines.

"What does it say?" Nunnally asked.

There was a tremble in Euphemia's voice. Her eyes began to shake. Her mind couldn't come up with how this had possibly happened. "Someone's found out my secret. I don't know how. I only told you two."

Lelouch looked at Nunnally and then at Euphemia. "We didn't say anything."

Euphemia held onto the edges of the magazine tight, almost crushing it. She began to get scared as she knew everyone in the family would know and Suzaku. She had been preparing herself to tell everyone but now it was too late.

"What are we going to do?" asked Nunnally.

Euphemia looked down, beyond saddened.

"We could say the paper was lying." Lelouch suggested.

Euphemia shook her head. "There's no point anymore. It was eventually going to come out."

Nunnally smiled. "Well we'll be here to help you deal with the others."

"Yeah especially Cornelia." Lelouch muttered.

Euphemia was starting to calm down, glad that they were there for her but then the rest of her brothers and sisters slammed the doors open and crowded her room with magazines in hand.

Cornelia clutched her teeth as she was squeezing the magazine as tight as she could. "Did you read this?! I bet this is the reporter from the press conference yesterday who said it!"

Clovis looked worried. "But they can't be true right Euphemia? I mean your sickness is being caused by something else right?"

Euphemia looked down. She stood up as she was ready to tell the truth. "Actually…"

Everyone around the room started to get anxious. "What the newspapers are saying…is true." she stuttered out. She kept her head down as she couldn't bare to look at any of them.

Everyone but Nunnally's and Lelouch's mouth dropped. "Euphie?" Cornelia barely whispered.

"Euphemia is pregnant?!" Guinevere shouted outloud.

"But how?!" Clovis was barely able to get out.

"I…it was my fault. I wasn't thinking and I'm sorry." Euphemia told them.

Everyone faces had turned to concern as they started to calm down. Cornelia walked over to Euphemia. "Euphie? Who's the father?"

Silence had filled the room. Everyone waited for Euphemia to answer. Still, she had avoided eye contact with everyone. Finally she raised her head. "It's…my knight Suzaku Kururugi." Euphemia whispered.

They were surprised. There were a few gasps. Cornelia pressed her teeth together as she started to get angry. "How dare he?! Suzaku is your knight! He should know better!"

Euphemia looked at her with a look of worry. "Don't blame him! It was my fault too!"

Schneizel put his hand to his head. He was a little curious and amused his self. "I wonder what father is going to say about this?"

"Does he know?" Euphemia asked, fearful.

"Yes." Cornelia replied.

Euphemia moaned. The feeling in her stomach was starting to feel worse. Lelouch had his arms crossed as he looked at Cornelia. "At least now you don't have to keep telling Euphie to watch what she eats."

Cornelia turned to him, suspcious. "You knew the whole time?"

"Yeah and so did Nunnally."

A thought came to Euphemia's mind. "Guys. I haven't let Suzaku know about this so please don't get mad at him."

"By now he has to know." Lelouch said.

Then, there was a knock on the door which everyone turned around. Suzaku was standing in the door, nervously. "Um? I was wondering if I could talk to Princess Euphemia?" There were a few angry stares his way but Euphemia walked out and closed the door behind her. She was afraid that something would happen if she had let him stay in there any longer. "I heard the news Euphie. Is it…true?" Suzaku managed to get out.

Euphemia looked down and nodded. Suzaku wasn't sure about what to say. "Well…how do you feel about it?"

She kept looking toward the side as nervous as he was. "I'm happy but… everyone else really isn't."

Suzaku started to scratch his head. "Um…so the baby…I was wondering-."

She looked at him. "I still haven't told the father yet but…when I find him, I will tell him."

Slowly, Suzaku put his hand at his side. She had kept a serious look on her face so it seemed that she wasn't joking. Disappointment started to fill him when he realized the baby wasn't his and that it belong to someone else.

"Anyway. I have to go deal with the others."

"Oh…right." Suzaku whispered. He stared toward the side. There was more he wanted to ask but his mouth wouldn't move to open.

Euphemia walked back inside. Suzaku walked down the empty halls with his head down, unsure about what to think now.

Euphemia closed the door behind her and leaned on it. She felt bad for not telling Suzaku the truth but she thought it was the only way to keep him safe from what her family might do.

"Now what are we going to do about this?" Cornelia asked. "There's no telling how people are going to react after this. We need a way so the people won't know about Suzaku or anything that happened."

"But what ever you do, don't do anything to Suzaku." Euphemia pleaded. "Let him continue being a knight. As long as he doesn't know, it'll be all right. That way, he won't be invovled." Her voice started to lower as she got sad. She still wanted Suzaku to be apart of her life and the baby's but she couldn't forgive herself if something happened to him because of it.

Everyone turned around when there was another knock on the door. A man dressed like a servant stepped inside a little. "Excuse me? Princess Euphemia? Your father wants to see you." Euphemia started to get worried. She walked out of the door alone. As she walked, she thought about things she could say but there was no excuse for what she had done.

She went to her father's room, still worried about what he was going to do. Inside, her father was waiting with a stern look on his face. "Euphie?!" The yell in his voice made her put her head down further. She started to mess with her nails. "How could you do this?!"

"I'm sorry! I never meant for this to happen! Please don't do anything to Suzaku! I won't tell him! There has to be some other way out of this!" she cried out.

Her father kept a serious look on his face. "I've all ready thought of a way so that this won't cause much of a scandal."


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