Title: K- Kids Rating: T Game: Animal Parade Disclaimer: I only own the plot, all the characters, places, belong to Natsume.
She's all laid up in bed with a broken heart,
While I'm drinking jack all alone in my local bar,
And we don't know how,
How we got in to this mad situation,
Only doing things out frustration,
Trying to make it work but man these times are hard,
She needs me now but I can't seem to find a time,
I've got a new job now on the unemployment line,
And we don't know how,
How we got into this mess is it gods test,
Someone help us cause we're doing our best,
Trying to make it work but man these times are hard
But we're gonna start by
Drinking old cheap bottles of wine,
Shit talking up all night,
Saying things we haven't for a while
A while ya
We're smiling but we're close tears,
Even after all these years,
We just now got the feeling that we're meeting for the first time
She's in line at the dole
With her head held high
While I just lost my job but
Didn't lose my pride
But we both know how,
How we're gonna make it work when it hurts,
When you pick yourself up,
You get kicked to the dirt,
Trying to make it work but,
Man these times are hard,
But we're gonna start by,
Drinking old cheap bottles of wine,
Shit talking up all night,
Doing things we haven't for a while,
A while ya,
We're smiling but we're close to tears,
Even after all these years,
We just now got the feeling that we're meeting for the first time.
Yeah...
Drinking old cheap bottles of wine,
Shit talking up all night,
Saying thing we haven't for a while,
We're smiling but we're close to tears,
Even after all these years,
We just now got the feeling that we're meeting, for the first time
yeahh for the first time,
oh for the first time,
Yeah for the first time,
(just now got the feeling that we're meeting...
For the first time)
Oh these times are hard,
Yeah they're making us crazy
Don't give up on me baby
Oh these times are hard,
Yeah they're making us crazy
Don't give up on me baby
She could kill him.
This was all a stupid idea and they both knew it. Stupid and crazy and just flat out insane.
She stood up with a stretch, Kasey had left early again, he was working at some construction site now and she...She settled her green eyes on the mirror as she brushed out her hair; trying her hardest to ignore the growing bump in her abdomen. When she had went to the doctor last week she remembered how worried she was. Secretly hoping that it was some kind of tumor. When she found out just what it was she started crying. The doctor; a slim asian man(why all doctors were asian now she would never know), had looked even more frightened then she felt. Apparently telling a woman she was pregnant usually led to some happy, five minute long squeal-fest, not a quiet, depressed sob. But then again she hadn't walked in with a husband, or even a boyfriend. (If she knew what he had been thinking...)
Kathy frowned slightly and wandered toward the kitchen, just thinking about how she could break the news to Kasey was nerve-wracking. 'Don't freak out,' she thought to herself, 'It's all his fault anyways.' His fault that she got pregnant. His fault that they were in the city. His fault that there was no Harmonica Town left to go to because he was more obsessed with skirt chasing then finding out how to save the town's failing economy. His fault, his fault, his fault. 'But it takes two to make a baby.' She thought as she took a sip of her coffee, she looked down at the cup and swore quietly. The doctor warned her about caffine and how it affects the fetus. She set the cup down; as far as possible, and shuffled off to the refridgerator. It was empty.
Kathy shut it with a sigh and slipped on her shoes, a quick stop at the convience store down the block and she'd be fine.
Kasey swore as he slammed the hammer down against his finger. He'd been distracted again, the clock calling his attention ever since he showed up. Joe looked up from his jackhammer.
"A little louder Kas, I don't think the nuns out there heard you." Joe joked jerking his head toward the back of the fence where, sure enough, there were five wimple wearing holy women. Coming back from a weekly church meeting. "I personally like the one in the middle."
"She's like...fifty easy." Kasey replied as he nursed his pounding thumb, "I think it's broken." He mused aloud, his sunny coworker ignored him; winking playfully at the fifty year old nun in the middle.
"Hey you're looking good today Mother Theresa, mind if I repent to you?" Kasey rolled his eyes and Joe let out a hearty laugh as the nuns scurried away. He turned to the ex-farmer and looked him over, usually by this point Kasey was telling to shut up and go back to work. Right now the brunet man was staring off into space, purple thumb cradled in his hand.
"So, how are you and Kathy?" The question made the young man jump, he goggled at Joe and slowly lifted his shoulder.
"I don't know honestly. We're still married so that's something." Kasey said, he dropped his head and studied his thumb. Joe glanced at it and frowned.
"Damn Kas, that is broken."
"It's just wierd you know? I mean, she's happy one minute, crying the next." Joe nodded and pulled Kasey's hand towards him. Bending his coworker's thumb back and forth, back and forth as Kasey continued talking. "And she's eating chocolate, chocolate." Joe dropped the hand; happy to know that they were both wrong and it wasn't broken, grabbed Kasey's hammer. "She never eats chocolate." Joe frowned at his fellow brunet, took off his red, white and blue bandanna and wiped at his face.
"If you ask me..." Joe said tentatively, "It seems like she might be-"
"Pregnant." Luna repeated in disbelief, Selena had stopped stirring the pot of stew that was simmering on the stove and turned the moment that word left her blonde friend's mouth. "My god, I didn't know Kasey had it in him." Kathy smiled at her rose haired friend wanly. She didn't believe it either. Or maybe...maybe she didn't want to. It's so much easier thinking that your husband is the reason you never had a kid. Up until you have one, and then...'And then you want to blame it all on them,' Kathy thought with a sigh.
"I did." Selena said as she sat beside Kathy, the death look Luna shot her went ignored. "It's about damn time this happened, if you asked me." Luna shook her head and reached out to hold Kathy's hand.
"That's why no one asks you anything Selena, you always state the obvious." Kathy ignored both of them as they began their usual bickering. She came here for advice, not to turn into the subject of yet another one of her friends arguments. Besides she only stopped by here to ask if one of them could take her to the convience store on account of her feet being swollen, it had been Luna who had wormed the dirty, little secret out of her. Luna who had yanked her into the large, posh, apartment Selena lived in with Luke and had, begrudgingly allowed the pink haired girl to stay in.
"But...how do I break this to Kasey." Kathy said softly, her two friends stopped arguing and looked down at her. Luna shrugged, the last man she went out with was Gill and that hadn't turned out well. "I mean we're already living paycheck to paycheck, if we had a kid we'd be...be." Kathy blinked back tears, trying to think of the right word to say;(Screwed, sunk, poor?) Luna frowned and gave the blonde's hand a squeeze before she let it fall back onto the table with a limp thud. Selena cleared her throat and the two looked up at her. The redhead's harsh violet eyes softened as she took in her blonde haired friend.
"You should tell him." She said gently, "When I got pregnant with Lucy that was the first thing I told Luke."
"But we aren't you and Luke, Kasey wasn't able to find a job like Luke was, we don't have a cushy apartment that our parents are paying for, hell we hardly even have an apartment." Kathy snapped. Luna raised her eyebrows and Selena's eyes narrowed again.
"Kathy, Selena's right." Luna said softly, "And by right I mean she actually makes sense." Kathy shook her head, her chair scraped back as she stood up.
"He's going to be upset." Selena looked at the blonde and frowned.
"If he is then let him be, but let me tell you one thing. Kasey? Kasey wants kids. I think he'll be ecstatic." The redhead said confidently. Luna nodded in agreement. Selena glanced at the clock then back to her friend, "And if you need to tell him, you should do it now."
"Why?"
"Doesn't he usually get off at five?" Kathy swore violently and pulled on her coat before she ran out the door.
Luna and Selena watched her leave, Luna bewildered and a little perplexed. Selena sighed softly and straightened out the side of the table Kathy vacated.
"I never seen Kathy that...fazed before." Luna said, "Usually she's so put together." Selena shrugged and went back to stirring the pot of soup.
"Being pregnant Luna, is a lot like being in love you never think. Only feel."
Kathy paced the floor of her bedroom as she waited for Kasey to come home. She knew for a fact that his work was thirty-five minutes from their shabby little apartment and the fact that he was running late was not making her feel much better. Kathy on top of the covers and placed a hand on her abdomen; she stared up at the clock watching in rapt attention as the minute hand slowly crawled its way around the tick marks.
At ten fifty-four Kasey stumbled in, dirty, worn and just flat out exhausted. The brunet took of his work boots, he didn't even notice his wife propped up in bed, her body covered head to toe in cold sweat. He looked up from his shoes and smiled at her sheepishly, waiting for her to blow a fuse. "H-hey Babe." Kathy nodded at him curtly and he frowned stepping hesitantly towards where she was lay. "Babe, are you alright?" Kathy jumped slightly in her spot and grinned at him, her fake grin, a grin she only used when she was feeling remarkably insecure. "I'm sorry I worked late, gotta get all the over time I can so we can afford this wonderful apartment." The words 'chipped paint and all' never left his mouth. "I uh...I take it you already ate."
"Yeah..." Kathy said softly as Kasey stripped out of his clothes, "There's warm water in the shower now; I...I paid the bill." Kasey's smile widened and he went over to his wife giving her a quick peck on the forehead.
"I knew I kept you around for something." Kasey joked as he stood back up and went into the bathroom. 'Not for long.' Kathy thought bitterly as the bathroom door shut. 'Goddess help me. What do I say, what should I say.' She twirled a few strands of hair around her finger as she brainstormed. All too soon the shower turned off, and all too soon Kasey stepped out. All the dirt and grime from his job scrubbed off. He slipped into bed beside her and turned off the light. Kathy's breath quickened as he tucked his head in the hollow of her neck, his warm calloused hand rested on her stomach, just inches from were her baby,(his baby; their baby, It takes two.) was at. She took a deep breath and let it out Selena's words of advice ringing in her ears. 'Now or never Kathy.'
"Uhm...Kasey?" She whispered, she felt him shift slightly beside her and she held her breath for a moment.
"Mhmm..." He murmured as he sleepily nuzzled her neck. She let out the breath and lifted a hand, toying nervously with a chesnut brown lock of hair.
"W-what would you say if I was...uhm...well...pregnant." Kasey was silent for a long time and Kathy gnawed at her bottom lip. A silent Kasey was never a good thing.
"Are you serious?"
"Is that what you would say or is that what you're saying?"
"That's what I'm saying." Kathy winced as the light came on and she saw Kasey looking down at her with that blank, hard-to-read expression that she hated so much. He sat up with a sigh and swung his legs over the side of the bed, placing his head in his hands. "Damn it, we can't have a kid. Shit we can hardly support ourselves..." Kathy watched him quietly and then crawled behind him, wrapping her arms around his waist and placing her head on his shoulder.
"I'm sorry." She whispered softly, he sighed and pulled at his hair.
"Can't you just?" Kasey faltered, not knowing how to word the phrase eloquently. "You know..."
"Kasey James Reulet, no I most certainly will not. You know I wont, even if you take me. So get that thought right out of your head." He nodded, partially thankful for marrying the most stubborn woman in that little, tiny town. "And you know you wouldn't even take me to the clinic anyways. And no, I won't give the baby up for adoption." Kasey hung his head and Kathy felt a small smile pull at her lips. She buried her face in his shoulder and gave it a tender kiss.
"I guess I should start working more overtime then." He muttered. Kathy laughed softly and raised her head back up.
"We'll make it work Kasey." She told him as he turned the light back off and the two of them laid back underneath the sheets. "I know we will."
Oh these times are hard,
Yeah they're making us crazy
Don't give up on me baby
A/N: ONE MORE CHAPTER AND WE'LL BE HALFWAY THROUGH (are you as excited as I am?) Sooo, I think I was stretching the AU thing. But i really couldn't think of any other way to do it. God i don't like how this turned out :/ but maybe you did (I hope you did). next up is L for Lust;D will there be a lemon? Maybe. You'll have to tune in to find out.