Chapter 20 – Visitors
Mir woke up to a blizzard. The snow had built up on her window about half way up. She turned on her radio to check the forecast.
Hello and good morning, it's Friday December the 14thand right now it's 6:30, the temperature is – 25C. There is no school today in any Kaygua schools.
Mir quickly shut off the radio and began laughing with excitement pulling all the blankets around her earning a disapproving groan from her bed-mate. She looked over and only laughed more. It seemed any night that Dearka worked overtime he would stay overnight in Miriallia's apartment, he said since he would have spent all day at work he wanted to spend his whole night with her.
"Awe is somebody tired?"
Dearka rolled over to look at her with a not so amused look on his face "I worked late and then you kept me up most of the night, and you celebrating about no school is not helping. Especially since I'm naked, it's cold and you're ripping the blankets away from me"
"Number 1, you worked late because you want the money"
"We need the money"
"Ok need, number 2 you the one who suggested that we make use of our nights together since right now there are no consequences to us doing it"
"You know you wanted it" he groaned as he pulled her down to him to rap them both in the blanket.
"So what if I did? So did you" Mir whispered seductively. "Now get going and get ready for work" as Dearka got up out of bed his cell rang.
"Hello"
Hi Dearka it's Murdock, listen there's not going to be any work today the roads are blocked pretty bad.
"Ok thanks for call man"
Ok I'll see you Monday morning, you take care of that girl of yours.
"Of course, see you later."
"Who was th-" she didn't get a chance to finish before Dearka was making out with her like crazy. There hands were running though each other's hair like there was no tomorrow. He finally stopped the kissing he leaned down and kissed her belly that now stuck out 2 extra inches then usual. He looked back up at her and spoke.
"Your not the only one with the day off. Now you're going to be punished for waking me up!" he then continued his assault of kisses. The kisses soon turned into much more since lately Miriallia was finding herself desiring Dearka more and more. The doctor told her that it would happen; she didn't care as long as Dearka was there to fulfill that desire. As for him, he had been feeling a lot better since he talked to Yzak over a month ago about the baby.
Flashback
Dearka had just got home from meeting his girlfriends parents. He was still pretty shaken up; he had told Mr. Haww things that he had never told anyone, not even Miriallia or Yzak. He was now in his apartment getting ready to call his best friend Yzak, someone who had believed he was an idiot for falling for a natural. Dearka was afraid of what his friend's reaction would be. Dearka inhaled deeply, holding it for a few seconds before exhaling and reaching for the phone to dial Yzak's number. It rang once, twice, three times then finally it was answered by a very confused WOMAN!
Hello
"Hi? Umm… I think I may have the wrong number umm…but is Yzak Joule there" he was a bit confused, why would a girl be answering Yzak's home phone? He knew that he claimed to have a girlfriend but she was his subordinate and it was illegal for them to be together so why would she be there at his apartment?
"He is sleeping right now, can I ask who is calling" said the girl
"Dearka, it's Dearka Elsman…I'm a good friend of his"
"Oh the guy from that trail, the one with the blond hair tanned skin who in love with a natural"
"Yeah… could you please wake him for me"
"ok" after a hear a few loud grunts groans and obvious displeased words being heard over the phone Yzak finally answered
"hello"
"Hey man what's up?"
"me thanks to you. What the hell do you want?"
"It didn't take that girl long to find you, it almost seemed like all she had to do is roll over" he said suspiciously.
"don't you try and act all innocent Elsman like you've never had a girl over night and shared a bed with them. Now what the hell do you what?"
"Do I need a reason to call my best friend in the whole wide Uni?"
"Either answer the question or I'm hanging up!" Yzak was obviously grouchy that he was woken up.
"I need some girl advice"
"YOU! Dearka Elsman the biggest womaniser in PLANT is having girl trouble"
"Listen you've always had girlfriends while I've had bed-mates, but now I want more then a bed-mate I want a girlfriend. I want to be with Miriallia, but I'm afraid that because I made her my bed-mate once that the whole girlfriend–boyfriend thing is screwed!"
"Why is that now, you were able to charm her into bed, can't you charm her into staying with you?"
"I need to tell you something ok?"
"Finally, hurry up now so I can get to bed!"
"Listen first off I love Miriallia more then I've ever in my entire life loved someone before. Because of her I betrayed the military, she was the finally push I needed to make my decision on what side in the war to take. If I did love her Yzak then I wouldn't be with her"
"And? What is the problem with that you respect women now so what? How is that girl trouble?"
"what I'm trying to say Yzak is that that is the reason why I am with Miriallia not because of the girl trouble I'm having"
"Which is?"
"She is 14 weeks…" He took a deep breathe before finishing his sentence "pregnant"
"WHAT!! You Fking idiot!! Haven't you ever heard of condoms?? Dammit Elsman what the hell were you thinking!!"
Dearka held the phone far from his ear as he waited for Yzak to calm down "I don't know what I was thinking not using protection, but what is done is done. She is 14 weeks along. I'm going to be a father Yzak and I don't know if I can pull it off."
"…"
"Say something!" Dearka yelled his voice cracking a bit
"Are you happy?"
"Huh?"
"Are you happy? If you forget whether or not you are qualified for the role, does it make you happy that someone will be depending on you? Needing you help and protection? Does it make you happy to know that you will have a little you? Someone you can always love and will always love you? Does this make you happy?"
He had never thought about it. Did he want kids? The question had never been on his mind when he was with any other girl except Miriallia. While in prison and before he found out about the pregnancy he had thought of marriage and maybe some day kids with her, so was the feeling he had really happiness?
"Listen happy or not you're stuck with this kid. Don't leave that natural to raise your kid on her own. You knew better when it came to sex who knows if she did. I'm not saying this is your fault just take it like a man. Be there for you little one"
"What if I'm not good enough?"
"You're great with kids Dearka, better then I think you realise. You'll be a great father, an award winning one. Just take care of your girl, don't let her feel like trash. Don't let her feel like I you sad or mad at her because she is pregnant. There are many people who want kids who can't so take this as a blessing not a curse. "
"thank you Yzak, I think that is really what I needed"
"Good now let me go to bed!!"
End of flashback
Dearka knew now that he needed to love and enjoy his time with Mir, eventually there world would be consumed by the baby. He also learned from that call that Miriallia needed him to be there for her in moments of doubt. Lately in school she had been getting extra dirty looks because of her stomach growing more and more, so more and more often she would come home crying and he now had realised that he needed to be there for her. Although he was still really worried because he still had not heard from his parents yet.
It was about 8:30 that they finally came out of her room. They had both had showers and were ready for their long weekend. Their four friends were sitting at the table eating when they walked in the room. Lacus got up to greet them.
"How was your sleep?"
"Great but I got a little nauseous from all the candy I ate last night"
"She got hungry and didn't what to go to the kitchen to get something so she ate a whack of candy and got a little sick"
"But you feel better now right"
"Yup, my stomach is all settled now"
"Good, then let's eat breakfast and then go out side to play!"
"How old are we 5? First trick-or-treating now playing out in the snow!"
"yup!" He was about to fight it further but the look in Mir's eyes told him that if he did he would be in trouble…again.
"fine"
The six finished eating and then headed outside. I had stopped snowing, making it a perfect day to play outside. The snow was just right to build with.
Athrun and Cagalli decided to build a fort. They walked around in a circle to show how big it would be, and then they dug out all the snow within that circle to build the walks with. They were making quick progress.
Lacus and Kira decided to make figures out of snow. Lacus rolled a big ball about half the height of her and then smoothed it out and made carvings into it until it looked like none other then haro. As for Kira he was making the classic snowman. After the two were finished they went over to help Athrun and Cagalli to make their fort.
Miriallia was busy making three snowmen, a dada, a mama and being held by both was a baby. Dearka grimaced as the part of the baby supported by the papa fell to the ground, doubts about being a good father began to flood though his head. These thoughts were ended by the cold shape pain of something hitting him in the forehead. When he looked up he saw his girlfriend with a satisfied smirk on her face.
"You know you can help, it's hard to lift all this snow on my own" Dearka chuckled as he got up and helped her steady the midsection of the papa snowman as she re-enforced it. They then moved on to the mama, then their heads. The last step with snow was attaching the baby, which had already failed once. Luckily Dearka had an idea. Taking his hand he made a hole in the upper middle snowball in both the mama and papa, and then he threaded in his scarf then refilled the whole, making a hammock for the baby snowman to lie in. It worked perfectly.
Next were the details they found 6 sticks 4 medium size ones and 2 small ones, then they found broken pieces of pavement and they got some carrots Lacus had gotten from the kitchen. Using the 2 small sticks they put arms on the baby that reached up to its loving parents. Dearka bent two of the medium sticks and then stuck them into the outside shoulders of each snowman, making the ends of the stick intertwine with his scarf that was holding the snow-baby. Mir took the remaining to sticks and put them on the shoulders that were almost touching, making the ends fall together. It looked like they were holding hands.
Next they put on the faces. Dearka broke of two pieces of the sticks and put them as they eyes of the baby; it looked like it was asleep. Next Mir put a very small carrot as its nose and a few pieces of the pavement to make a small smirk on the snow-baby's face. Next Dearka decorated the Papa and Miriallia the Mama. After they were done they stepped back to admire their work.
"Awe!" said Lacus
"Perfect happy little family!" added Cagalli
"Getting excited yet?" asked Athrun
They turned around to see their friends looking at them "I'm Nervous…I guess"
"Well at least you don't have to give birth to it poor Miriallia is going to be in a lot of pain" said Kira have hateful the next thing he knew he was pelted with a snowball by none other then Miriallia! "M-Mir?"
"Stop being so hateful to Dearka" His girlfriend defending him made him smile and laugh hard, but it was ended but a snowball to the gut thrown by Kira
"HEY! Grrr!" He picked up a snowball to throw it but he missed and it hit Cagalli, blaming Kira for moving she threw one at him, hitting him between the eyes next she picked on up and threw it at Dearka, she missed when he moved but then she picked one up and threw it at Mir's stomach and of course Dearka's new fatherly instincts took control of him and he dived in front of the snowball. Mir thought this was unfair so she tried hitting Cagalli but hit Lacus instead. The next thing they knew it was in all out snowball fight! Balls were flying every which way hitting everyone, Dearka stayed in front of Mir to protect the baby of course.
They were all laughing, giggling and panting from exhaustion. Their fun and games were ended when Dearka threw a snowball at Kira whom ducked making to ball hit the unexpecting 7th person to join the group. They all looked scared as the snowball slowly slide half melted down the pale face of the newcomer. For behind this person a girls laughs could be heard.
"WHAT THE HELL IS SO FUNNY!" the newcomer yelled as they turned towards their companion.
"I'm sorry Yzak it's just-" she couldn't finish because she was to busy laughing at her commander/boyfriend getting hit in the crossfire of the snowballs. Yzak just brushed to off as everyone got to their feet to greet him
"So this is what you people do on your days off, act like a bunch of 5 year olds?"
Surprisingly Dearka came to the defence of what they were doing "We were just having some fun, you know if you tried having fun once and a while you hair might not be so grey"
"MY HAIR IS NOT GREY! It's silver and it's my natural hair color!" Picking up a snowball quickly he threw it hitting Dearka in the face. They all laughed except Yzak.
"Come on, let's go in side and have so tea and hot coco!" Lacus guided them up to the apartment. They went in the girl's apartment after they were all in dry clothes. They all sat down. Lacus passed tea to Athrun, Yzak, Shiho, and Kira while Dearka, Cagalli and herself had hot coco. These were both on Miriallia's no no list from the doctor so she just had some hot water with strawberry extract in it.
"So what brings you here?" Dearka finally ask after sitting in an awkward silence for 10 minutes.
"Your parents"
"…great"
"They got your letter, and lets just say they were giving me mixed messages"
"What kind of messages exactly"
"Your father wants the baby to be either aborted or put up for adoption and her doesn't want your name any where near the birth certificate. You mother on the other hand sends her congratulations and wanted to know two things, when is the due date and whose last name will it have. Your father wants you to leave your girlfriends and forget all thoughts of that 'skank', his words not mine, while your mother wants to know when is the wedding. They got into a huge fight about it all. Your mother is calling him and insensitive jerk who needs to get a life, while he is calling her crazy for thinking the 17 year old son should have a baby with a natural"
"So my mom is sticking up for me"
"She is disappointed that you made the same mistake as she did, but she feels she cannot be angry at you because she did it too before."
"So she sent you to relay his parents message about how his father hates me" Mir said with tears building up in her eyes, Dearka pulled her into a hug
"That's not all is it"
"I brought gifts for Christmas from your mother. She doesn't want them open until then. And Shiho and I are off until January 4th so you better get use to us being here."
"Did you get a hotel yet?" Lacus asked trying to get the focus of the now crying Miriallia.
"No, I thought I'd find one place at a time"
"Well why don't you stay here? You and your girlfriend can sleep in Dearka's bed since he is always sleeping here anyways"
Shiho went bright red think about spending three weeks in the same bed as Yzak, she had only shared a bed with him once and that was when Dearka had phoned, after that the two had avoid getting in bed together "W-well ummm…" she started
"Sounds good" Yzak said flatly.
Dearka and Athrun slouched down on the couch. This was going to be a long three weeks.
TBC...
Chapter 21 – Becoming Friends