Everyone stared at Martin.
"W-What?" Mai managed out. "You're lying, of course he's the father. How could he not be!?" Mai screamed.
Martin shook his head. "I'm sorry but the results clearly state-"
"No, you're wrong!" Kairu yelled. "Naru is our dad!"
Naru spun around and glared down at Mai who was shaking in her seat, from confusion and fury.
"I knew it," he spoke down at her.
"But...Naru!"
"You really were obsessed with me and angry that I didn't reciprocate your feelings. You slept with someone who looked like me in hopes of satisfying your obsession. You even had the audacity to claim the kids as mine when I know for a fact that I would never, ever, even if we were the last people on the planet, be caught dead sleeping with a brain-dead, second-rate, pathetic, annoying, obsessive girl such as yourself. You can pretend to be as innocent as you want but now you're exposed to the world as the liar you are."
With that, Naru turned and stalked off with Keiko following. Everyone looked at Mai to see her completely shattered. Her eyes were wide and the tears fell from her eyes.
No one knew what to say, what to do.
She was broken.
Ayako sighed as she entered her shared room with Houshou.
"How is she?" He asked.
Ayako sat on her bed and just stared into space.
"Ayako?" He asked, concerned now.
"She's...a wreck. Once we got her to Masako's room, she was sobbing uncontrollably. She's heart broken, Houshou," Ayako answered, looking up with watery eyes. "She finally cried herself to sleep."
"Well, she's safe here. Naru and Keiko have left for her home in Osaka and I get the feeling they won't be back for some time."
"Good. Those words he spoke hurt her more then any physical wound."
Ayako sighed and buried her head in her hands, shaking.
"I-I just don't know how to help her."
Days passed and Mai had not come out of it. Kairu was always by her side while Koyuki stalked the halls, thinking up more ways to make Naru pay.
Luella stared at her husband sadly who was sitting at his desk.
"Martin? What is it?" She asked.
"Nothing, love."
Luella gave him a look and he sighed.
"I just...Mai truly believed that Noll was the father and quite frankly, I did too."
"I still believe he is the father. Is there any way that the test could be wrong?" Luella asked.
"None. We took a strand of Noll's hair and tested it."
Martin picked up the actual test results. It couldn't have been tampered with. He knew Noll's DNA backwards and front from all the tests they had done on the twins and there was no difference. Noll was definitely not the father.
But as he went over them, he saw the similarities to Kairu and Koyuki's DNA. Almost as if they were...
"Oh my god!"
"Mai!" Luella called.
Houshou wheeled Mai down to where Luella and Martin where.
"What's wrong? Is everything okay?" He asked.
Mai was silent, eyes empty. She was still off in her own little world.
"We were going over the test results and we found something interesting."
"What?" John asked.
"Noll isn't the father...but Gene is."