Sorry for the short previous chapter, and sorry (if) this chapter is a little short. I have been struck down by writer's block in the most unforgiving of ways. That is also the reason why I haven't been uploading chapters as much recently.
I think my problem is that I have ideas for later and sequels planned, just not for...you know, right now...
Man, how did I get to that place?
Blake slowly opened her eyes, taking in the blurry scene around her. Blinking twice to try and get the sleep out of her eyes, she sat up, stretching her arms.
She took in her surroundings - she was in a dormitory, but not her dorm. The makeshift bunk beds were notably missing, as well as the stitching in the curtains. It all came back to her then - how embarrassed she had been, and then how angry she had been, and then...
I gotta go apologize! Blake thought, shooting out of the bed. She looked into the bathroom longingly first, and suddenly felt sweaty and almost dirty.
Well, I could use a shower first. she thought, removing her white jacket. She stripped down, leaving all of her clothes on the floor in Sun's dorm behind her, and entered the bathroom.
Turning on the water, she turned the heat all the way up, and stepped in. The hot water and steam felt good against her bare skin, and she felt, at least partially, the hormones raging inside her die down. She lost track of how long she spent in the shower, just letting the water flow over her.
A brief sense of weightlessness brought her back into reality as she tripped on the wet tile in the shower, and she belatedly realized she must have spent about an hour in there. She turned off the water, grabbed a towel, dried herself, and exited the bathroom.
Unfortunately, the second she exited the bathroom, Neptune Vasilias entered the dorm. She flinched at the sound of the door opening, and Neptune almost didn't notice her as he took his few steps in.
He looked up and saw a nude Blake standing in the middle of the room, managing to maintain her decency by holding a white towel up in front of her. They made a solid thirty seconds of eye contact, both unsure of what to do, but Blake figured it out first.
She shrieked, a high-pitched, bloodcurdling sound that echoed through the hallway. Neptune blushed and turned away, covering his eyes with his hands, waiting for the Faunus girl to calm down enough to carry on a conversation.
"What...are you doing in my dorm?" Neptune asked, trying to sound more intense than he was actually feeling.
"I-I came to visit Sun. Something happened that I wanted to talk to him about." Blake said, blushing. She had managed to wrap the towel around herself so that her hands could be free.
"And you just thought you should take a shower while you were here?" Neptune interrogated.
"Well, I actually wound up falling asleep. Though, I do remember falling asleep on the floor there..." Blake blurted out, not fully thinking out her phrases fully.
"You fell asleep in our dorm with Sun here?" Neptune said, holding back a smirk, "So, were you two getting it on or something?"
"Oh! Um..." Blake vocalized, blushing, "...No, we weren't. I don't think that would be such a good idea in the condition I'm in right now."
"Condition?" Neptune questioned, hesitantly.
It was at this moment Blake's thoughts caught up to her. Shit, he doesn't know... she remembered. As the only ones she had been interacting with since the discovery of her pregnancy were her team and Sun, all of whom were well aware of this fact, she had forgotten that it wasn't something to casually bring up in conversation. She blushed deeply.
"Um, it may or may not be what you think..." she began, her voice trailing off, but she knew that at this point she pretty much had to tell him. Sun had told her about this facet of Neptune - that he was untalented at keeping secrets, and was likely to blab to one of their teammates about whatever he knew. She had wound up in a minefield, knowing that any step she could take will end in her demise.
"I have a few ideas, yes." Neptune said. "Though, before I make a guess that gets me into more trouble than I'm already in, I'd like you to tell me what you mean."
"Umm...hm. Well, I'm pregnant..." Blake began, managing to blush even more. "...Sun's the father."
"I'm sorry, what?" Neptune said, taking a step back in shock.
Blake took a deep breath. She definitely did not want a repeat of what happened at the library. "I'm pregnant with Sun's child." she repeated, slowly and quietly. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'd like to get dressed and leave."
She grabbed her clothes, went back into the bathroom, and got dressed. She stormed out, pushing past Neptune, and exited the dorm with her mission in mind.
Despite this determination, however, Blake couldn't stop herself from sprinting away the second she exited the door.
Author's Note: The point of this chapter was to indicate that Blake can't really hide this anymore. To show the level of writer's block I have, that was also the theme of the last 3 chapters.