A/N: It's time...

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I was beyond done with being around my family and ready to go home, but I knew from experience that they weren't going to let me leave until they were all ready to leave too. It really sucked because I just wanted to go to sleep. My pregnancy had me completely exhausted.

Yet, when Yuu spoke up, claiming that he had to be at work early in the morning, they let us leave. It wasn't completely a lie, as he did teach Saturday morning karate classes, but none of them were as early as he had implied. Still, I desperately wanted to leave, so I wasn't about to tell them that he was lying or ask why they were letting him leave without a fight, whereas if I had been the one to ask, they would have given me hell. Instead, I quickly followed him out the door and climbed eagerly into the car beside him, praying that we would make it out of the parking lot before my crazy family changed their minds.

We drove in silence for a few minutes before I relaxed, and that was when I realized why Kanda had lied about work. He had lied because he had seen that I wanted to leave but wasn't able to say anything about it. He was standing up for me.

Once I relaxed, Yuu started asking the questions I expected him to ask. My family was really strange, and he understandably would need more information to draw conclusions about the night's dinner. So I answered the questions to the best of my ability, and we actually had fun talking about my crazy relatives.

But then, when we stopped at a red light, Kanda suddenly asked a very different question. "I'm just curious, so you don't have to tell me if you don't want to, but you left dinner to use the restroom eight times. And from what you said before dinner, it seems like a pretty safe bet that you were leaving to go throw up. So, if you're that sick, why did you go in the first place?"

I shrugged, trying to act nonchalant; I didn't believe that he wasn't going to press the issue if I didn't want to answer him. "Uncle Tyki was blackmailing me. If I didn't go, he was going to tell Neah my secret. And no matter how sick I was, he was always going to think that I was making up excuses to get out of it."

To my everlasting relief, Kanda didn't ask about the secret and changed the subject. "Right, Tyki. I don't remember him being that much of an asshole the last time we met. He was weird, sure, and much too curious about our relationship, but he definitely was never so outright rude to me before. He seemed to really have it out for me tonight."

I laughed at the annoyed face he was making. "There's probably nothing you can do about that. Uncle Tyki is a little old fashioned. To him, you'll always be the guy who knocked me up outside of wedlock."

It wasn't until the light turned green and the car didn't move that I realized what I had just let slip. The lack of honking told me that there was no one behind us, which was good, as this car was clearly not going anywhere. My heart was pounding in my chest as I struggled to explain myself. "Yuu, I-"

"How long?" His voice was gruff and I couldn't read the emotion in it; I was much too scared to look at his expression.

I felt my panic building as I scrambled to answer the question. I needed to explain things quickly if I wanted to keep Kanda calm. "Ah, umm, I'm about ten weeks along, and-"

His voice was stern as he cut me off. "No. How long have you known?"

That was an easy answer, but I had no clue whether or not he would like it. "I took the first pregnancy test nine days ago, and the health center confirmed it last Friday."

Kanda relaxed, but only slightly. The car finally moved, easing my panic, even if it only moved the few feet it took to get safely to the side of the road. Yuu sighed heavily as he shifted the car into park. "And you hadn't told me yet because you're scared."

I nodded, beyond confused that he was being understanding and not upset. "Terrified."

He was silent for a moment before he spoke again. And while it was good that he was taking this seriously and really thinking things through, his silence was not good for my anxiety. "Does the rest of your family know? Was tonight just some weird-"

I shook my head as I cut him off, finally working up the nerve to look at him. "No. Only Uncle Tyki knows. The rest are just always like that."

Yuu sighed and ran a hand through his hair. He may have looked calm, but I could tell that he was freaking out internally. "Does anyone else know?"

I bit my lip, hoping this answer wouldn't piss him off. "Just Lenalee. I wanted her opinion on whether or not you would want to know if you got a girl pregnant."

The heavy sigh that followed was unexpected, mostly because Kanda sounded relieved, and I didn't understand why Lenalee knowing would provide him with comfort. Though his next words definitely put an end to that confusion. "So it is mine."

I couldn't resist rolling my eyes at that. There was no doubt at all about him being the baby's father; he was the only man I had ever slept with, and he knew that. "Of course it's yours, moron."

Unsurprisingly, he ignored the jab and moved on to his next question. "Are you keeping it?"

I shrugged, trying to act nonchalant despite being on the verge of a panic attack; I didn't know how to explain this part without upsetting him. "In that I'm not going to have an abortion. Anything beyond that is something for you and I to discuss. Because it is your child. I need to know if you want it before I make any decisions about what happens to it. But that can wait for a later date. I want you to have time to think about it so that you don't make any rash decisions."

Little did I know, he had already made a rash decision.