Chapter 10 - Recovery
Hikaru woke up that day and felt lazy. Not that he wanted to laze around, he felt a lacking of some sort after what happened the night before. He had been making playful passes at Kauri but she never seemed interested. He knew he liked her and he thought maybe she liked him back but then again, why should he feel pressured to like the twin of the person your twin was dating? But did he feel pressured? Or did he like her? He didn't know.
"I'll just ask her out tonight and if it's right, it's right." He said to himself walking into the shower.
That evening, Hikaru paced nervously outside of their door waiting for it to be answered. It was a Saturday so all he had to do all day was sit and think about what he was going to do or say.
"Oh hi Hikaru, what are you doing here?"
"Well I came to ask Kauri-"
"She's on a date. Sorry!" She said.
"Oh, I'll stop by later then." He answered sadly.
"I'M NOT ON A DATE CRAZY PREGNANT LADY! You asked me to buy you dates like the fruit, you were having a craving and I had to go halfway to another city to get them." Kauri answered stomping onto the porch and handing Susan the bag of fruit. "Why are you looking at me like that?" She asked, Susan was looking at her wide eyed and standing like she had been petrified. She didn't answer Kauri's question. "Mom? You're scaring me! Mom! Say something!" Kauri yelled
"My water just broke." Susan said, the scared look remained on her face.
"Oh, OH! Um, will you go get my dad? I'll call Kaylie." She said ushering her mom to the car.
"Um Frank?"
"Hikaru! Nice to see you. How are you?"
"Um, your wife's water just broke." Frank dropped his pen and looked at him bewildered.
"I'm sorry what?"
"Your wife's water just broke...?" He said worried what was gonna happen next. Frank ran up to the master bedroom and grabbed a prepacked bag from the closet and ran into the car while Kauri was on the phone with Kaylie, who was on a date with Kaoru.
"I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE ON A DATE MOM'S HAVING A BABY STUPID!" She yelled at her brat of a twin sister.
"Whoa, Kauri, calm down. Kaoru can just drive her to the hospital, it'll be okay."
"I'm sorry what are you doing here again?"
"Well, initially I came to ask you out, then all this happened and here we are."
"I'd love to go out with you!" She said lightening up and hugging Hikaru.
"Hey, no PDA." Frank said very seriously from the front seat.
"DRIVE FASTER OLD MAN!" Susan yelled from the passenger seat.
"Wow, is she always like this?" Hikaru asked
"Ha. You should have seen her last pregnancy. She drove herself to the hospital." Kauri scoffed. Hikaru just sat there wide eyed. All the sudden there were police sirens and Frank was forced to pull over.
"Do you know how fats you were going sir?" The obviously annoyed male cop asked.
"Yes. My wife's in labor."
"Do you know how many times I have to hear that excuse?"
"IF YOU DON'T LET US GET TO THE HOSPITAL, SO HELP ME GOD, I WILL RIP YOUR HEAD OFF!" Susan yelled at the police officer.
"Um, go ahead." He said nervously breaking into a sprint back to his cruiser.
"DRIVE!" She yelled at Frank. They finally arrived at the hospital and a few nurses, the quickest they have, escorted her in by request of her husband.
"Okay, Susan, I'm going to need you to calm down." Her doctor said to the now pushing lady who was yelling so loud that Kauri, Kaylie, Hikaru, and Kaoru could hear in the waiting room.
"FRANK! YOU SUCK YOU SUCK YOU SUCK YOU SUCK! NO MORE CHILDREN!" She yelled pushing harder.
"It's crowning!" A nurse said excitedly. A few minutes later the body was fully out and getting washed off.
"Do you know what you'll name her?" Another nurse said, handing Susan her baby.
"We wanted to go back to our Japanese roots instead of like all our other children when we had them in America, so we're naming her Hotaru. Because she's our little firefly." Susan said calmly. "Frank, dear, go get everyone else." She said holding and talking to the baby who was looking at her intently.
"Oh, mom, she's too cute!" Kauri said taking the little hand on her little finger.
"What's the name?" Kaylie and Kaoru asked
"Hotaru."
"Oh, that's cute." Kaylie said.
"Dad, why don't you guys go home and rest? I'll stay with mom tonight." Kauri offered.
"I'll stay too." Hikaru stated, looking to Kauri for approval, she nodded her head and smiled.
"If you're sure. I'll run Kaoru home then." Frank said and ushered them out. Susan handed Kauri the baby and quickly went to sleep. Kauri held the baby and subtly bounced up and down, she couldn't stop smiling. She sat down on the couch and rocked the baby while it slept and suckled on the tip of her finger. Hikaru came around and sat next to her looking at the baby. He yawned and laid his head on her shoulder and closed his eyes. He pretended to stretch and wrapped his arm around her shoulders. She side-glanced over to him and smirked.
"Are you making a move on me?" She asked tauntingly.
"Well, if I'm taking you out, shouldn't I?"
"Well, that's kind of a crappy excuse but I'm too tired to argue on it." She answered, setting the baby in the bed next to her mother's sleeping form. She went back to sit next to Hikaru and he put his around her again and she put her head on his shoulder and fell into a deep sleep.
Susan woke up in the middle of the night hearing the baby start to get upset and walked over to the baby bed. She looked over and saw Kauri asleep on Hikaru's shoulder and inwardly 'aww'd' and took out her camera. But she forgot to turn the flash off so it flashed through the whole room and both of them shot up. "MOM!" Kauri yelled
"What? It was just so cute!" Susan answered.
"Go take care of your child." Kauri said sitting back down on the couch and curling up into a ball.
The next morning, Kauri woke up and found Hikaru coming in with a cup of coffee for Susan.
"So, do you still wanna go on a date?" Hikaru asked now stretching Kauri.
"It's six in the morning."
"And? There's a diner down the street. Let's go get breakfast."
"Alright. Fine." Kauri answered picking up her bag and saying bye to the baby then to her mom.
"Have fun kids." Susan said, holding Hotaru.
"So where's this diner?" Kauri asked when they exited the hospital.
They sat down at a booth and ordered their food.
"You don't feel pressured to date me because your brother is dating my sister right?"
"No. it doesn't even cross my mind that my twin is dating your twin. Except for now of course..." Hikaru answered, then thanking the waitress for their food.
"I didn't really expect to be in a relationship when I came here. There were never any cute boys in America." She joked, taking a piece of Hikaru's pancake and popping it in her mouth.
"And that's changed now?" He asked
"Only in your case." She said cutely, sliding out of her side of the booth and moving to his.
"Alright lovebirds, break it up." Kaylie said walking into the diner.
"What are you two doing here?" Kauri asked
"We were heading to the hospital and we saw you two in here." Kaoru answered.
"Well, go away we're on a date." Hikaru said
"Rude. Just for that I think we'll stay." Kaylie said plopping into the booth, Kaoru sat down and put his arm around Kaylie shoulders while she ordered. "Mom's calling. Hello? Mom, calm down. We'll be there soon. We're gonna eat first."
"You have fun. But not too much fun." Kauri said to Kaylie as they were exiting the diner. Kaylie death glared her, then stomped off.
A/N: Okay, I finally got out of my temporary slump...Sort of. I was inspired from GLEE for the labor scene and the movie 'Date Night' for the diner scene. I hope you liked it.
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