"Rin Kagamine!" she exclaimed. "You slut!" Anger was boiling inside of me. "Shut up!" I spat back, about to start hurting her. Len stepped in front of me.

"Stop. Really. Fighting won't make it any better, only worse." Kyoko rolled her eyes.

"But Len-kun!" she whined. "Why did you break up with me to be with her? She's pregnant for God's sake!"

"Okay, first off, it's Len-san to you," Len replied. "And second, I want to be with her because—" He hesitated for a few moments. "—because it's my...child that she's pregnant with."

Kyoko's jaw dropped.

"You—you people have something wrong with you!" she screamed. "You're both SICK!" She dropped her basket and ran out of the store.

Len and I exchanged glances. I sighed and he put his arm around my shoulder. "It'll be okay, Rin, I promise," he coaxed, rubbing my back. I managed a small smile.

~

People pointed and stared at me as I walked into the cafeteria the next week. "Great," I whispered to Miku as we got in the lunch line.

We sat down at a table in the corner of the back of the cafeteria. Len sat down soon afterward. "I think she told," I told Len, "'cause a whole bunch of people've given me the stink eye today."

I turned to Miku. "What am I supposed to do?" I asked. "Should I lie about it and say it's just a rumor, or should I tell the truth?"

Miku sighed. "Well, I mean, um, I don't really know. I guess it all depends on whether or not you get, well, please don't take this offensively—" I laughed. "—whether or not you get, well...fat."

I giggled. "Wow, thanks Miku, that reallyhelped."

I didn't eat much for lunch that day; I was tired, scared, even a bit disappointed. I glanced at a table across the cafeteria and saw several girls giggling and pointing at me. I wanted to march over there and tell them to STFU, but Len's suggestive look told me not to.

I decided to go back to the classroom fifteen minutes early. As I walked out of the cafeteria, I felt the gaze of several dozen pairs of eyes on me. I tried to ignore them and went down the hall to the stairwell.

I started packing my things up for the next period when a group of girls approached me. Great, I thought, and sighed. "So, Rin-chan," one said, "I heard something, well—interesting—about you the other day."

"Oh really?" I replied. "What might this interesting thing you heard about be?"

The girl smirked. "You're pregnant, aren't you?"

I burst out laughing, trying to cover it up as much as possible. "Pregnant!" I exclaimed. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" I realized the other girls weren't laughing and stopped. "Oh, what the hell, I'm pregnant."

I knew lying would only make things worse. What if Miku was right? What if I did get, well...fat? If I decided to keep the baby, I'd have to take her everywhere anyway.

"I knew it," she smirked. She eyed my stomach. "And it's more noticeable than you think." I looked down and noticed my stomach was sticking out further than I thought it was.

The group of girls silently walked away. I sighed and put my head on the desk. I started crying.

But I had an even better idea. I wiped my tears and gathered my things. When no one was looking, I quietly slipped out to go get my shoes.

I took all the back hallways to get my shoes. I managed to sneak out of the school and started walking home. I wondered what Len, Miku, even Meiko were thinking. Then it hit me.

Soon, the whole school would know.