It was unanimous! Everyone voted no :D
"He'll be back soon." I cautioned my over friendly neighbour. Sure, the thought to fuck him had crossed my mind but that was it, just a thought, all I had to do to make it go away was remember the last thing Sasuke had said to me before he left.
'I would die for you. Never forget that and just wait for me, no matter what I'll always find you.'
No way would I betray him. I pulled out the plug and wrapped a towel around my shuddering naked body.
"Hey, I won't try anything if you don't want me to, Emiko!" Akio laughed, his voice echoed in the spacious, tiled room. He wasn't Shinji, I reminded myself, he wasn't the type of man to force himself on me, he was a nice guy who I'd probably slept with more times than I should have.
"I know, I'm sorry." I shrugged, releasing a heavy sigh. He took notice of the troubled look in my eyes, the dark circles under my eyes, my unkempt hair, I looked very different than when we were together.
"Emiko, are you happy?" he asked seriously. He followed me down the hall and waited patiently for me to dress and actually brush my hair outside my pushed bedroom door. Rejoining him, looking slightly more human, we headed down the stairs.
"No but when Sasuke comes back I will be." I finally answered with a confident smile. He nodded and wished me well before leaving. If only that meant peace and quiet! One peek into the living room had me doubting that, my 'sweet' old Grandma was giving a lap dance her best shot for an confused old man, who looked closer to a fossil than an actual person. I dashed past, covering my eyes from anymore mental scars, grabbing a family size tub of ice cream and a spoon from the kitchen. I really fancied the stuff! In fact in twenty minutes I'd tucked myself into bed, scoffed the entire tub without a brain freeze and fallen asleep.
A few days later and a couple of extra ice cream pounds on my stomach I decided to go back to work. If I wasn't sleeping I was eating ice cream and when I was eating ice cream I was either thinking about more ice cream or about sleeping. Something had to change or Sasuke wouldn't even recognise me.
"Welcome back!" Chiyo and Miyu, aswell as the rest of the library gang, cheered me back into the front doors. As far as they knew I had been recovering from Shinji's kidnap and then the collapse of my apartment, which is why, out of the goodness of their hearts they had continued to pay me.
"Thank you everyone. I'm glad to be back!" I lied through my best fake smile. No, I didn't want to work. I wanted to be attatched to my boyfriend day and night.
"How are you doing, love?" Head librarian Chiyo pulled me into a hug. Normally I don't have a problem with hugs but hers I have a problem with, she's fat but doesn't use deodorant, small so I have to almost crouch and then there's her giant breasts that she squashes so close to your face they suffocate you.
"Gwooood." I tried to reply, gasping for air.
Everyone was overly nice to me that day so it made a nice change that Miyu was her usual self.
"It's been about you all day so I'm gonna share now." She suddenly struck up during the quiet hour before closing. I spun my chair to face her side of the joint desk wiping away any evidence of the ice cream I had been secretly scoffing.
"Share away." I smiled. She took a deep breath and I knew it was going to be a good one.
"Well, the other night, right? There was this gorgeous hunk at the bar, he could've been a body builder he was so buff. Plus he had the tatoos, the piercings…so obviously.…"
"You took him back to your place." I encouraged and she wheeled her chair even closer to mine. The suspense waa unbearable!
"I started taking all his clothes off and you'll never guess what!" I really couldn't! With her it could be anything!
"He had the tiniest little cock I have ever seen!" Thank goodness nobody was around, she was so loud I burst out laughing.
"Seriously, Emiko. I actually had to use my hands to check it was really there!" We were both howling with laughter, cackling like two witches around a fire. Tears were streaming down my face, my shoulders heaving with each hearty laugh, I hadn't laughed so hard in such a long time. It felt good, I felt a bit more like myself again, like before I'd even met Sasuke and my life wasn't revolved entirely around him.
As the howls subsided into fleeting chuckles Miyu grasped at the chance she had been waiting for.
"Did the guy that knocked you up have the right sized equipment?"
"Wh-what?!" I spluttered, genuinely shocked by her question.
"Oh, sorry. Did you just get fat?" she wasn't sorry at all, just annoyed that she had gotten it wrong. I stared down at my own body as though it didn't belong to me at all. Sticking to Sasuke's rules, I was wearing unattractive black trousers and a smart long sleeved blouse that was far too big for me but if I ran my hands along the badly ironed creases I could feel that my stomach was definitely swollen. I had been eating a lot recently…
"Wanna talk about the guy?" I wondered what she saw in my face that made her ask that, shock or horror? Chiyo gave us both a strange look and waddled past the desk heading outside. Odd. I wondered where she was going, it wasn't closing time yet.
"I don't think I can say anything." I mumbled, glaring at my little bump. Miyu sighed and did something very surprising, she put her arms around me and gave me a sobre hug, the first ever in the ten years I'd known her.
Squeezing me tightly she said, "Emiko, I thought we were best friends. You can tell me anything." I didn't know how Sasuke would feel about me sharing intimate details about our relationship but it would feel great to finally offload to someone.
"His name is Sasuke, a missing-nin from Konoha. We're madly in love, really madly…which is why we haven't been using protection." I admitting, holding her even tighter.
"Where is he now?" she wondered aloud. I opened my mouth to defend his absence but nothing came out, I had no idea where he was or how to explain it to a person that wasn't obsessed with him.
"He'll be back soon." I sighed.
Fat or pregnant? She's pregnant! Sasuke's back next chap :)