No day is the same
Secret or not?
To recap: On their way to Japan, the kaiba brothers and mai were stopped dead in their tracks by an angry amelda, hell bent on revenge towards the blue eyed CEO. Mokuba ends up standing in for seto when the seal of orichalchos is played and loses his soul...he knows Seto will be able to beat Amelda and save him...but when?
Meanwhile Seto remains distraught about his little brother who, since his parents is the only person he really loves. Is that about to change? For the next four months Seto divises, strategises and plans a feirce duel against the person who took Mokuba. The only problem now is tracking this Alister fellow down as he seems to have gone into some sort of hiding...
A duel isnt the only thing that Seto needs to prepare himself for, Mai has a little revelation of her own. 4 months in the making or so it seems.
Late one sunny afternoon.
Mai walks into one of the inner city pharmacies. Thoughts are racing through her mind.
"What will kaiba say?". "This couldnt have came at a better time could it?" "Damn, what about Joey?"Mai pushed past her awkward thoughts and continued to the counter where a nice young assistant was standing by.
"Hello is there anyhting i can get for you this evening?" the sales girl asks politely.
"Ah yes" Mai replies trembling a little.
Mai looks around the chemist to see if the tests were on a shelf. instead they were behind the counter.
"CouldI please have one pregnancy test?"she almost whispers.
"Which brand would you like?" The girl asks nicely. "Blue and true?" "50 seconds, or wait and see?". Mai cringes.
"Um whatever oneI dont care". the sales assistant grabs a blue and true from the shlef and gives it to the nervous blonde.
Afterward Mai goes into a public bathroom and rips open the test. "I cannot beleive im doing this" she squeaks to herself.
Mai stands there looking at the test. If it is positve then she would be going to the doctor to see just when it was conceived. Seto was always so careful, there was that time when Mokuba had just lost his soul and they were both pretty upset, but that was over three months ago and Mai had never had any concerns because it had been so long also ishe was pretty sure they used a condom as kaiba is very picky about that sort of thing... Mai waited.
Thoughts were racing through her head, they felt as fast as the speed of light,flashing in and out. Her own mother and father arose in her memory for a breif second before the line on the pregnancy test turned the colour she had not wanted it to.
Mai covers a hand over her mouth and races out onto the street and into her car. Where can she go? there was no way she was about to tell Seto right now. He was too busy at Kaiba corp planning this killer duel to save his brother. Noone came near him, except his loyal assistant Roland, Even Yugi who was busy searching for this mysterious Dartz character was'nt important. Seto wanted his little brother Mokuba back first and for most.
Mai presses her fingers onto her steering wheel as she drives. The sun shines on her face as she swerves outside the only other place she knew she could go to.
"Stop it you" Vivian giggles. The young egyptain boy pouts and fold his arms.
"I thought you wanted me to..." he whispered.
The two frolicked ontop of Miss Wong's bed until they both heard a knock at the door. Vivian jumped out of her toy boy's grasp and ran to open the door.
Her almond eyes widened and a smile broke across her face when she saw her blonde friend wearing her usual purple clothing standing at the entrance to her apartment.
"Mai" She squealed, hugging her.
"Uh hi" Mai said with an uneasy look on her face. "May I come in?"
"Who is it?" Jou called out from his new bedroom.
"Aha Joseph you will never guess" Vivan replied, almost yanking Mai's arm into the living room.
"Mai?" Joey said with curiosity as to why she was here and not in Japan.
"Hey Joey" She says with a small wave.
"I thought you would be in Japan by now?" he asks with one hand behind his back uneasily.
Just then Bakura comes stumbling out of Vivian's room.
He rubs his eyes and flicks his hair out of his face. He has a towel wrapped around his waist and nothing else. He is exposed and loving every minute of it.
Vivian laughs like a school girl. "Oh yeah" she says stepping over to Bakura.
"May I introduce my new...squeeze" she giggles.
Joey groans. Mai is a little perplexed.
"Bakura?"
"The one and only" Joey replied a little glumly.
Bakura then flings his arms around Mai.
"Oh wasnt it horrible what that brut marik did to us?" He softly consoles.
"Ah yes, bad memories" "I'd rather not think about" Mai replies edging away from the over friendly egyptain male.
"Go and put some clothes on" Vivian orders with a large smile on her red lips.
Bakura rolls his eyes and struts back into her bedroom.
"So what brings you here?" Vivian asks, hinting for Mai to sit down on the couch and spill!
"First of all" Mai says. "When did all of this happen?" she asks, pointing to Bakura who was changing in the room, then to Joey who was perched on one of the kitchen stools.
"Well when you moved out, there was a room for rent" Vivian explains.
"I needed to get out on my own" Jou added.
"What about the others?" Mai asks.
"Tristan and Tea are with yugi at the moment" "theyre looking for this new evil guy" "I wanna stay and look after my baby sister but if anything gets too out of control I'll head out to rescue them as always" Joe informs with a smug look on his face.
Mai shakes her head and smirks.
"so have you heard about this Dartz guy?" Vivian asks.
Mai looks to the floor and cups her hands together.
"I've heard of him alright" She sighs.
Mai then explains how one of his accomplices stole Mokuba's soul and that Seto has been hell bent on getting him back and taking down this Amelda guy ad who ever else is repsonsible for this mess that led his little brother to lose his soul and be lost.
"Amelda has gone into some sort of hiding" Mai explains with a worried look on her face.
"Noone can seem to find him" "None of Seto's employee's" "Even with all their high tech security systems and tracking devices".
Jou sits beside Mai and places his arm subtly around her.
"Dont worry Mai" "Yug will track the scum down" Joey assures.
Mai nodds to herself but remains glum. her blonde hair falls over her shoulders and she feels herself tense up.
"Is their something else?" Viv asks pulling Mai's hair out of her face.
Mai holds in a deep breath and exhales."Yeah"
"I havent been to the doctor to confirm" She begins."But the test I took ws positive".
Joey and Vivian are both confused. Bakura then walks out, hearing the majority of the conversation he jumps on in to it.
"What have you got?" he asks with crossed arms.
"Nothing like that" Mai says with a look of annoyance
"I'm pregnant"
"Ah come again?" Viv muttered. Jou just about slipped off of the couch.
"PREGNANT?" Bakura gasps.
"Yeah exactly" Mai spits. "You think I'm happy about it?" "this couldnt have came at a better time you know" she moans with fear in her eyes.
Vivian puts one hand on her friends knee and assures her that everything will be okay.
"We'll go to the doctor with you now if you want" she suggests. "I dont start work for another three hours".
Mai nodds, atleast it would be better than going alone...right?
As the sun began to set over the city, Mai, Joey and Vivian waited by the reception desk.
Bakura tagged along and walked up and down the waiting room area. He observed the plant by the side of the window and looked outside at the high rise buildings slowly coming alight. The smell of coffee lingered throughout.
"I'm gonna try and track down the smell" "Anyone want an espresso?" "Tea?" "Latte?".
The three of them all shook their heads and waited with Mai.
Bakura shrugged and went to find the coffee machine. By the time he came back with a hot beverage in a plastic cup, Mai and the other two were already seated in the doctors surgery.
"Tsk tsk" He muttered to the receptionist. "No respect for pure arabica espresso". The receptionist continued typing way at her desk, ignoring what the attractive young man was saying.
Bakura took a sip of the artifical drink and almost gagged on it. "ack" he spat. "this isnt even close to true perfecto coffee"
The receptionist rolled her eyes and looked at her watch...
Meanwhile in the Doctors office.
The red headed female sat at her desk and listened to Mai's story. She took a throrough test and asked a few questions. After a few mintues she asked Mai to sit down again.
"Congratualtions" She smiled with her hand on Mai's hand.
"You are officially expecting a child".
Joey clenched onto Mai's other hand. She started to feel faint.
Vivian placed her hands on Mai's tense shoulders and hushed her. "It'll be okay" she softly assured.
"Uh I take it this was not planned" Dr Addison says with caution.
"No" Mai sternly replies.
"Is the father around?" she asks.
"He better be" Vivian warns. "Yeah or else we'll see to it that he is" Joey adds.
A smile breaks across the pretty young doctors face.
"I see you have some supportive friends there"
Mai nodds and takes in what has just been said.
Addison then informs her that she will need a complete health check and scan next month when she is officially 4 months.
Mai's eyes widen. "So you're saying I am three months already?" she gasps.
Joey and Vivian look at each other in shock.
"Yes,its perfectly normal to be three months at this stage" "most women find out round about then" "some are over four and half when i tell them the news" "So you're very lucky" he informs. "You still have time" "And options". she looks at Mai in the eyes.
Mai knows what she is hinting at.
"Are you saying what I think you're saying?" Joey growls.
"Hey hey slow down buddy" "It's her baby remember?" Vivian cuts in.
Joey looked as though he would tear the doc to shreds with his brown eyes.
Mai dosent say anything. She has heard enough. It was time to go home and tell Seto...
Once she had left th surgery, Mai dropped her friends home, while Bakura chatted about the terrible coffee he had and then about how great he thinks Mai having a baby sounds.
"To think Mai" he beamed. "Another life, when we almost lost ours". Mai slammed on the breaks as memories of her dead parents came back and the shadow realm which her and Bakura were both trapped in.
"Get out" Mai bellowed.
"AH" Bakura jumped out of Mai's purple audi as quick as he could.
"ah call us if you need anything sweet pea" Viv called as Mai sped off.
"Nice going smart guy" Joey hissed at Bakura.
"What?" "What did I say?" Bakura asked with that sweet innocent voice of his...
Vivian shook her head and wrapped her arm over her lover.
"Come on you" "Lets get ready for work"
Mai sat in the large mansion alone and waited for Kaiba to come back from KC. The mansion was spacious and her footsteps echoed when she walked through the halls and many rooms. Feeling dizzy she sat down in one of the many lounges on a red velevet chair.
Tina, one of the house maids came in and offered her some hot tea and soup. Mai refused, all she wanted was to sleep and drink alot of water which was weird for her, she usually craved rich full dishes and alcohol, lots of alcohol but not recently. These symptoms hit home for her.
"Dammit I really am pregnant" She moaned, sipping on a tall glass of water with a slice of lemon and resting her head in the soft comfortable chair.
Mai wasn't aware how long she had closed her eyes for, but when she awoke, the maids were chatting amonst themselves and the curtains around her were drawn.
"He's home" She heard Tina announce to one of her collegues down the hall.
Mai rubbed her eyes and walked along the mansion until she came to Seto's bedroom upstairs. She slowly turned the brass door knob but Seto opened it before she could finish opening. He starred at her with strong blue eyes.
"I wandered where you were" he said with a solemn look on his face. He goes to sit at his large black desk.
"I was uh downstairs" "I must have fallen asleep" she replied walking over to the desk, seto was sitting at.
"Busy day?" She asks, rubbing his shoulders. Seto closes his eyes and lets Mai releive some of the tension in his bones.
He then reopens his eyes and mumbles a "unproductive is what it was"
He looks at the ceiling then moves himself over to the bar to pou himself a scotch. he offers his girlfriend a drink but she reluctantly refuses.
"Why?" He asks with narrowed eyes.
"You always join me for one do you not?"
Mai bites her bottom lip and twirls her hair anxiously. Seto knew Mai a little by now to know that something was up with her.Mai felt terrible about dropping something like this on him, especailly now, why couldnt something like this happen another time? Say 10 years from now?
"I uh have to go to the bathroom" she quickly says racing towards the luxurious room connected to the bedroom.
Seto holds both hands out, with the drink in one to stop her!
"Mai" he grunts.
Mai pines and starts to fidget.
"Ok but before you get angry" She says. "This isnt all MY fault you know?" she folds her arms.
Seto tilts his head so his brown bangs fall over his eyes. He looks incredibly seductive.
"Yeah no wander you're knocked up" she thinks "look at this guy"
Seto gulps his scotch and puts it on the bench of the bar. he then approaches his blonde lover and puts both hands on her shoulders.
"Well Miss Valentine?" he questions. "What isnt all your fault?"
Mai breaths heavily through her nose then looks at her boyfriend square in the eyes...
"Seto...I'm Pregnant" she just manages to say
TO BE CONTINUED
I just love preggie fics. There needs to be alot more of them!