Another Note: I was looking over past chapters and thinking of some of the reviews and thought that I have made Mamoru out to be so smart and so mature. BUT as I think….. He really isn't all that. He may be book smart and trying to ACT mature but he isn't. REMEMBER: He acts mature around his teachers the perfect straight A student; and around his friends he acts like he knows it all BUT DOES HE REALLY?

Mamoru is only nineteen and trying to be what everyone wants him to be. He is his mother's perfect little innocent boy. A son his father is proud of and in Mamoru's own words, "I am perfect and can do no wrong ever in our parent's eyes!" AND who of us wouldn't get a big head and a natural high after being told what Mamoru had been while growing up.

BUT we all know he isn't perfect or (I think) mature and at the moment no one but One knows the real Mamoru and he is going to have to remind her of that OR maybe she is going to have to remind him. Only Usagi has seen the real Mamoru and we are going to have to wait and see if he comes out for us…

Remember peeps –Having SEX doesn't make you mature! ~EvaC.

Onward….

Chapter 9

Mamoru looked to Motoki wondering how the man knew Usagi. Thinking that Motoki knew more about Usagi being pregnant, Mamoru kept silent about him knowing her. He had to make sure she really was before telling that it was his fault.

"Damn what frightened her?" Kunzite asked after he had walked up to the two men who were still standing there by the hallway that lead to the bathroom's and Motoki's office.

"Don't know. She did look shocked. I hope she's okay." Motoki said walking to the front door. It never clicked in his mind that Usagi had been staring straight at Mamoru.

He left out never noticing that Mamoru followed him in his car praying the whole way that Motoki was leading him to Usagi.

Mamoru parked his car sighing as he watched Motoki walking into the building that he lived in.

"Damn he just went home." Mamoru mumbled before hitting the steering wheel with the palm of his hands.

He looked up after he heard a horn behind him. Mamoru drove his car and parked it before he looked to the apartment building again wondering how Motoki knew Usagi so well. He had seen the look in Motoki's eyes and the sweet way he had said her name. Mamoru's hands tightened on the steering wheel.

It suddenly dawned on Mamoru that the building was an apartment and he got out of the car and ran across the street running into the lobby. Spotting the mailboxes Mamoru started to look at the names hoping that Usagi did live there.

Usagi stood by the closed door while she listened to Motoki give the door one more knock before he walked away talking to himself that maybe she didn't go home.

Usagi looked at the wall across from her feeling her eyes blink on their own while her mind and thoughts were on Mamoru. Finally after telling herself that she didn't need him or want him she saw Mamoru again knowing that he really was in that town. She would know his face and voice even his body anywhere.

She moved from the door and took her coat off letting it fall on a chair by the table before she walked into the bedroom and stood beside the bed.

"It was Mamoru, he called me Usako. No one else calls me that but him." Usagi whispered as she started walking back and forth.

Mamoru got back into his car and drove away. After not seeing Usagi's name on the boxes he thought she didn't live there. If he would have waited just ten more minutes he would have seen Motoki's grandfather placing Usagi's name on her box. The man always did go about doing thing slow finally doing them after his wife nagged him enough times to get his body moving.

"How the hell does Motoki know my Odango?" Mamoru mumbled driving back to the café wanting to confront Motoki but in a way that wouldn't let the man or anyone else know he knew Usagi well.

Mamoru walked in and over to his friends who were finishing up eating.

"Hey Mamoru's back." Nephrite said.

"Where did you go to so fast? You and Motoki both have been acting stupid lately." Jadeite said.

Mamoru looked at him then to the others.

"Mamoru are you sick or something? You are looking worse than a few weeks ago." Zoisite asked.

"No months ago. You on drugs Mamoru?" Jadeite asked.

"Drugs! That explains it!…Dude you should share." Kunzite said before laughing at the face of disbelief on Mamoru's face.

"I'm not on drugs." Mamoru mumbled.

"You need to stop worrying so much about your classes' dude. You're only nineteen. You shouldn't have let them place you as a Junior I don't think you are really ready. Stress can age you." Nephrite said noting when the three others agreed with him with their heads.

"Is Motoki back here?" Mamoru asked not caring how he looked.

"Not yet." Kunzite answered.

The table got silent and Mamoru once again looked at the others.

"That girl…That girl with Motoki who is she to him?" Mamoru asked noticing his voice was soft sounding.

"A new girl in town that Motoki likes a lot. I've never seen him act like this with any other before. It ain't love yet but getting there." Nephrite answered.

Mamoru looked at him then to Kunzite after the two nodded at the same time.

"Yeah if you would hang with us more again you would know." Zoisite said before looking away from Mamoru but not until Mamoru noticed that Zoisite seemed annoyed.

"What's her name?"

"Usagi, she lives across from Motoki's grandparents in that apartment we thought of renting but changed our mind since it was too close to the old couple." Kunzite said not noticing Mamoru looking down.

"Having Usagi so close, makes it a lot easier for Motoki to get to know her since he lives on the floor above hers." Nephrite said then laughed with Kunzite and the two.

"She's not your type Mamoru not even ours. Motoki said she's pregnant which surprises me. I never thought he would fall for a girl already knocked up." Jadeite said.

"Maybe that's why he wants her. He wouldn't have to worry about using birth control." Zoisite said once again getting the four all laughing.

Mamoru looked at the floor feeling his eyes open wide.

"Who's the Dad?" He asked not wanting to hear anymore about Motoki wanting his Odango.

"Who knows? I don't think she is but then again I haven't seen her belly well. She always has a coat on when I've seen her. And if she is she doesn't talk about it." Nephrite said looking to the other three who nodded in agreement.

"How far along is she?"

"Who knows?" Zoisite answered picking up his glass finally looking to Mamoru who was still looking down.

"Damn Mamoru why you asking so many questions over some girl you don't know?" Kunzite suddenly asked looking to Mamoru who lifted his head and looked at him.

"I do know her. Usagi….she lived next door to me at home." Mamoru mumbled.

"That's it! I told you I saw her before Jadeite! Mamoru brought her to that first party we had during the summer remember!" Zoisite said looking to Jadeite who looked at him like he was crazy while trying to remember.

There had been so many parties and Jadeite couldn't remember ever seeing Mamoru at any of them. Jadeite had thought that during the past summer Mamoru had stayed away from them more then normally.

Mamoru looked to the door after hearing it open and saw Motoki walking in.

"Motoki!" Kunzite suddenly called.

Motoki looked to them and walked over and stood beside Mamoru who looked at him.

"Hey guys sorry I left like that."

"Did you find your little lady?" Nephrite asked smiling and missing Mamoru eyes narrow.

"No. I don't know if she went home. I knocked but no answer." Motoki said sounding sad.

"Hey Mamoru knows Usagi maybe you can ask him what you need to know about her. She lived by him at his home town." Kunzite said looking to Mamoru along with Motoki.

"You know her?" Motoki asked turning to Mamoru with a growing grin.

"Yeah." Mamoru answered wanting to ask his own questions but again he didn't want the others to know how well he knew Usagi.

"Do you know why she is here alone? Oh never mind that tell me everything you can about her so I can be ready! This is great now I can find out what she likes and other things!" Motoki said.

"I don't know why she's here. She's….just an old neighbor." Mamoru said then suddenly turned and walked away leaving out and not looking back while hearing the others calling his name.

Mamoru got in his car and once again drove back to the apartment building upset. He couldn't believe that Motoki wanted Usagi.

Mamoru vacated his car and once again walked into the building and started to walk the floors trying to remember which apartment Kunzite had said.

"Can I help you young man?"

Mamoru stopped walking and turned around when he heard Motoki's grandmother.

"Yes Mrs. Furuhata."

"Oh hello dear you're one of Motoki's friends aren't you?"

"Yes I'm Mamoru." Mamoru answered putting on his famous smile.

"I haven't seen you around for some time, what have you been up too dear?"

Mamoru noticing the bags the woman was carrying ran to her side and took them then followed her to her place thinking he was lucky since the woman had shown up when she did.

"Oh thank you. Such a nice young man, we old folks need more like you. Motoki's other friends should learn some manners from you."

"Thank you and you are welcome. I'm just attending school trying to finish." Mamoru mumbled glancing around before his eyes fell on the door across from them.

Mamoru looked back to the old lady after she got her door open then took the bags from him and smiled.

"Thank you, the mister and I sure do think that out of all of Motoki's friends you have the best manners, don't you be a stranger young man come over sometime for dinner."

"No - Yes I mean no I won't be a stranger and thank you for the invite." Mamoru said smiling until the door closed.

He sighed then ran over to the other door and gave a knock praying that it was the right one. He looked up and down the hallway trying to remember the day he and the others had looked at the place but he just couldn't since at the time he wasn't ready to live on his own.

"It's the right one. Motoki's grandparents live there so…" Mamoru mumbled then got silent as the door opened and he saw Usagi standing there.

"Mamoru." Usagi said looking at him like she couldn't believe he was there.

Mamoru opened the door the rest of the way and walked in then closed and locked it. He thought he had heard voicing coming up the stairs.

He turned around slowly and looked at Usagi who had backed up against the wall and was looking at him shocked.

Time stood still as the two looked at the other each thinking that it felt like a life time since the summer.

Mamoru took a step forward before he grabbed Usagi and pulled her to him and kissed her shocking her even more.

"I've missed your lips." He mumbled before deepening the kiss.

He moved his hands down her back while at the same time pulling her closer to him only to let her go after her belly touched his body and Usagi pushed him back at the same time.

Usagi bumped into the wall while Mamoru had to catch his balance.

She looked at him astonished by his weight loss. He didn't look as healthy as he had during the summer or even when they were younger.

Mamoru looked at her finally letting his eyes settle on her stomach and without her large coat on you could see that Usagi was pregnant.

His hands flew to his mouth and he covered it and his nose as he continued to look at her belly.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" He asked with his hands still in place.

"I told you the day you left me Mamoru." Usagi said standing in place.

Mamoru finally looked into her eyes then looked away not liking that she called him by his first name. He always liked when she called him Mamochan it was more personal.

He glanced back to her belly then to her face as he lowered his hands.

"You should have told me before now so I could have taken you to the doctor's and we could have gotten it gone." Mamoru said watching Usagi's eyes widen before they narrowed.

"I told you before you left and you didn't believe me. You didn't want to believe me! I was already three month almost four then, it was too late and it's too late now and I'm not letting my baby go ever!" Usagi said moving her hands to her stomach.

Mamoru closed his eyes.

"But I can't let anyone know." He moaned thinking of his reputation.

His eyes flew open and he looked into her angry eyes after she slapped him in the face.

"Guess what I don't care about it or you now! And don't worry about anyone knowing for I will never tell who the loser father is not even the baby! I will have my baby which was my ticket to freedom from a father who didn't love me and a mother who did all she could to please only him. You're lucky Mamoru, unlike some girls; I'm never going to ask for anything from you."

She turned her back not wanting him to see the tears that were forming.

"Go and think of only yourself. Now that I know the college here is yours I'll stay away. If I could leave this area I would but I can't. I have nowhere to go no family since they disowned me. It's just me and my baby." Usagi mumbled looking to the floor.

She turned around and looked to Mamoru who took a step back surprised by the look in her eyes. The look of hate that he knew was his fault.

"Get out Mamoru now. This is my place." She said pointing to the door.

"You're not of age to have your own place." Mamoru mumbled.

"Guess what buddy thanks to my own father I'm old enough he made sure of it. Thanks to him I'm old enough to vote and can even drink alcohol in this area if I want."

Mamoru wondered what she meant and wondered what her father had done.

"And thanks to you I've grown up before I should have. Thanks to you I get to miss graduating with my school mates and everything else girls my age do. Yes thanks to you I get to be a mother before I'm really ready. I get to really play house with a real live baby doll! So thank you Mamoru thank you from the bottom of my heart in helping me grow up sooner!" Usagi said before she walked to the door and opened it and pointed a finger to the hallway.

Mamoru looked away from her and towards the hallway before he slowly made his way to the open door feeling his chest hurt not realizing that his heart was being ripped out knowing she told the truth.

"I don't need you and you said you don't need me. I'm not your type of girl remember? You don't want a little girl to stop your plans so I won't. Get out Mr. Perfect and go back to school and get your education and while you're there get mine also….. I….don't need you for anything." Usagi's said while her mind hardened but her heart knew she was lying about not needing him and her heart was praying that he wouldn't leave.

Mamoru stopped walking before he left the apartment and looked at her.

Everything that he had been thinking for those past months every time he woke up from dreaming of her flashed in his mind. Thinking of the pain in her eyes knowing it was his fault but most of all picturing her and Motoki together, knowing he wouldn't be able to handle it Mamoru took a step towards her.

"You are wrong I do need you and I do want you Usako." Mamoru said before capturing Usagi into his arms again and kissing her, feeling her tears mix with his own as he closed the door missing Motoki standing out in the hallway looking towards the apartment.

To be continued.

No peeps Mamoru isn't forgiven that easy! EvaC.