Chapter 3: Thoughts
As Van continued to spin her around, a few things had occurred to her. "Um Van," he slowly stopped spinning her and sat her down on his lap as he sat back down in his brown leather chair. "I might have more than one you know." he nodded and understood.
"The more, the merrier," he replied as Hitomi laughed.
"And you do know that this means we can't, ya know." she hinted towards him. For a moment, his face went glum but lightened right back up.
"Hitomi, I completely understand." she smiled in relief.
Later that night, Hitomi lounged around her room, relaxing and preparing herself for the next few months. Wow, I'm gonna be a mother, this is so weird. I never expected to have any kids till I was in my mid twenties but I guess you don't really get much of a choice. She thought as she stretched her small body out on the bed. Hm, I wonder what my parents would say or do? She wondered as she rolled over onto her stomach and sat up. She walked out onto the balcony and gazed up at the night sky. I wonder what's going on right now on Earth?
A middle aged man and woman sat together by the fireplace in their home, cuddling close together and speaking with a young detective. "So, is there any word of the whereabouts of our daughter sir?" the man asked softly rubbing his wive's back for her comfort in this tough time.
"Well Mr. and Mrs. Kanzaki, I have spoken to many other students in her university dorm and one student in particular said that they saw her leave her dorm late the night before your daughter's friend Uchida Yukari disappeared." Mrs. Kanzaki was ready to burst into tears. "But, while we were searching her room, we found this." he handed them a letter address to them. Mrs. Kanzaki opened it and read it in silence to herself.
"What does it say honey?" her husband asked as he leaned over her shoulder.
"She left, she went to . . ." she read exactly what was written in the letter aloud. It talked about Hitomi's adventures on Gaea six years ago. They weren't sure if they should believe it or not. To them it seemed a bit foolish, a planet in which you could see the Earth and the Moon up in the sky.
"If you don't mind Mr. and Mrs. Kanzaki, I would like to take this back to the lab." the detective asked and Mrs. Kanzaki handed him the letter and he left.
Hitomi walked out of her room and into the hallway. As she walked through the maze or corridors, she came across Allen. "Congratulations Hitomi," he said to her with a smile.
"How do you know?" she asked him confused.
"Yukari told me about it." Hitomi narrowed her eyes. That's the last time I tell her anything, she thought to herself.
"She did, well, I guess I need to have a long talk with her then."
"Hey you aren't mad at her are you?"
"Well, maybe," she answered him sarcastically.
"If you should get mad at anyone Hitomi, it should be me. I forced it out of her." Allen confessed.
"Oh, ok, thanks." Hitomi then continued her way down the hallway. She went into the library and began to look through the large selection of books for one or more books on maternity. After looking for almost half an hour, she found a few. She took them over to a small cubical and began to read through them and taking notes.
The early following morning Van found Hitomi fast asleep resting her head on a pile of books. Carefully, he pulled a book from under her hand. He looked at the cover then put it back down. He then picked her up and carried back to their room. He carefully laid her down on the bed and tucked her in. Before he left the room, he placed a soft kiss on her forehead.
Days turned into weeks and weeks slowly turned into months. After Hitomi's first three months of pregnancy, she was really staring to show. One warm afternoon Hitomi sat outside with Yukari enjoying the beautiful weather. "Yukari, is it just me or do I look a little big for three months?" she asked as she rubbed her stomach.
"Ya, you look like you're in your second trimester."
"I know, but I'm only 12 weeks pregnant." her voice was full of concern.
"But Hitomi, if you're pregnant with more than one child than of course you're gonna look bigger."
"More than one? That means I could have twins!" she seems somewhat excited.
"Or you could have triplets or quadruplets or quintuplets or-"
"Okay, let's not think about that Yukari. I don't think I could handle any more than two." she said interrupting her friend for her words were beginning to scare her.
"But don't worry Hitomi, from the looks of it, you probably are carrying at the most, twins." Hitomi sighed in relief. I wish you were here Merle, I want to tell you so badly, Hitomi thought to herself as she gazed up a the sky.
A/N: so what did ya think??? I know it's short and there's like nothing exciting going on but I'm at a big writers block!!! But hopefully it'll go away and I'm pretty sure that maybe in the next chappie that the fic will pick up it's pace. Well please review and any rude or personal comments can be e-mailed to me at sailor_cosmos71@hotmail.com