Chapter 25: Pregnancy and Planning
"Wh- No way, how did you find out?" Subaru asked.
"I'm swollen around the abdomen and I have stretch marks. And I haven't been feeling so good in the mornings. Look, look" Rem explained.
Rem removed her top to expose her upper body. She pushed back the covers making her torso fully visible to Subaru. She was swollen around her gut in an ovalic shape. The sides of her torso looked as they were being pulled in with the stretch marks. Subaru knew that she was so no more evidence was needed for him. Rem placed her hands around her stomach nursing herself. Subaru stuck out his hand to touch her and rubbed her gently.
"How long do demon pregnancies take usually?" Subaru asked.
"Around seven months a good bit shorter than human" Rem answer still excited.
"Well humans take nine months. So a good guess is that you will be eight months pregnant" Subaru calculated.
Rem grinned happily and quickly jumped on top of Subaru hugging him tightly.
"I'm going to be a mother Subaru. We are going to be parents" she cheered.
Subaru fell against the futon underneath him with Rem wrapped around him. He lifted himself up with her still clasped around her. He pushed her apart from her. He leaned in a kissed her gently waiting for an acceptance from Rem. Rem pushed him to the floor and continued to caress Subaru. She was in a classic crawling position over Rem.
"Demons are quite violent aren't they" Subaru teased.
"Why yes we are" She said releasing Subaru from her entrapment.
They both lay on the sides staring at each other.
"Come on child-barer, we should sleep." Subaru told her wrapping himself close to Rem under the cotton cover.
The following morning, Subaru was up early with Otto surveying the area for their expansion. Rem was left in her bed still reating. Subaru remained quiet about Rem, he was going to let her announce herself. Kayo wandered up behind Subaru and Otto whom were down by the streamside. They turned to face her as she approached. She handed them two small cups filled with herbal tea.
"Thank you, Hinazuki" Otto thanked her.
"Please call me Kayo, and my name is now Natsuki" she bowed turning from them.
"What happened with you two last last night?" Otto asked.
"Don't worry about it, Otto Natsuki" Subaru quipped.
Later Crona had finished preparing luncheon, she peered out the open shutter doors at Subaru and Otto. All the loud noise they had being making was showing results. A clearing in trees was made. Light shone through the gap. Chopped trees had been lined up on the opposite field. Crona called out to them to come in to eat. They brushed their hands and started to return to the house up the slope. They rinsed their hands in the water when they arrived back and sat down to join everyone else at the table.
"What's the plan out there?" Ram questioned.
"Bridge, two houses" he announced plainly.
"Two?" she replied.
"Yes, Rem and I will stay in this house. Ram and Otto get their own house with Crona. And the Kayo too and enough space for her family in the future." Subaru explained.
Kayo stared down at the table in embarrassment.
"Thank you Subaru, Otto" she bowed her head further her cheeks a bright crimson.
"That's a great idea" Crona praised. "Each family can have their own house".
"It will be handy especially since.." Rem trailed off.
Subaru knew what coming. Everyone else awaited her follow up.
"Subaru and I will be having a child soon. As I am expecting" she exclaimed.
The table was quiet at first until Otto started clapping his in compliments. Although he did over hear them last night.
"Congratulations, Rem" Ram cheered.
Ram was asleep and didn't hear anything beforehand.
"Congrats" Crona called out.
"When did you find out?" Otto asked.
"It was only recently, I'd say she only about a month in" Subaru announced.
"Five months here and you are pregnant. Progressive" Ram joked.
"We can talk later, let's eat so the boys can continue on their work" Ram said braking the conversation.
The six finished eating and Crona and Kayo collected the dishes. Subaru and Otto return to the streamside to finish the work they had started and for more planning.
"Talk about a great man with a wife and soon to be father. Seven us will be nice." Otto told Subaru.
Subaru was adding up the months and thinking back the Capital with Roswaal and Ram and the spell. Still only him alongside Rem and Ram knew.
"Yeh." Subaru sighed.
"I think we should build Kayo's house first as she currently has no proper to sleep." Otto suggested.
Subaru lifted a plank and lay it across the water below. He used stone to hold it in place. He walked onto the middle and looked down the stream.
"We may need to support the the banks on the side here, shouldn't be too hard, just some rocks along the side should do it" Subaru pointed out.
"Support the banks, build the bridge then Kayo's?" Otto planned out.
"Sure, yeh, I'll do the banks, you start the bridge, we don't need two of us for that" Subaru added.
Rem and Ram were sat in Ram and Subaru's bedroom, across from each other on the futon. Ram was surprised on how well kept the room was.
"I will say, I'm a little jealous considering I can't even have children." Ram revelled.
"You do have Crona" Rem commented.
"She is my little daughter" Ram
"Little really? You are twenty and she is eleven" Rem pointed out.
"She is a little big. But Crona is not what I came to talk about, Rem something has been on my mind" Ram announced.
Nothing to really say. Chapter out. - L