Hi everyone, I'm back to updating (read the new chapter of 'With You' to find out the deal with me and my long absences) so here's another chapter of a story you've probably all forgotten. I'm determined to finish these two fics, or at least this one since it's shorter before I start posting the new one I'm working on. Anyway, thanks!
The Luckiest
Four quick weeks later, and it was the middle of February. Sakura and Syaoran were starting to make a list of things they would be needing to purchase soon, and as the days grew less, the list grew more. It was as if the queen of England was coming into their home, they were planning so carefully. Pouring over their list, Sakura with her extended stomach and Syaoran with his watchful gaze, one would think them a very devoted couple.
As school let out that day, Tomoyo and Sakura walked toward Eriol's car together to wait on the boys to get out of the building. Sakura noticed her friend wringing her hands and couldn't help but wonder what was bothering her so much. The raven haired girl was practically about to pull her hair out for some reason, and it wasn't like her to not tell Sakura. . . well, everything. Stopping at the car, they pulled their coats around their bodies a little more and stood in silence for a moment before Sakura spoke up.
"You want to go get something to eat? I've been craving corndogs for a couple days now." Sakura suggested, but Tomoyo shook her head.
"I actually have something to get done today, but maybe later?" Tomoyo replied, and Sakura nodded, her soft brown bangs falling into her eyes.
"Is everything okay, Tomoyo? You've been kind of. . . antsy today." Sakura asked, and Tomoyo nodded quickly.
"Everything's fine. You know, I think I'll just walk back to the apartment. I could use the air." Tomoyo stated, and before Sakura could say anything, her best friend was walking briskly down the sidewalk, her dark hair bouncing atop her head. Eriol and Syaoran emerged moments later from the school, and Syaoran stood next to Sakura while Eriol watched Tomoyo as she walked away.
"Is she okay? She was awfully quiet last night." Eriol said, and Sakura shrugged.
"I know something's bothering her, but I couldn't say what. She wouldn't tell me." Sakura said quietly. Syaoran watched his cousin become worried, but mask it with a nonchalant smile.
"She probably has some sort of test. I'm sure she'll be fine once she walks off the stress." He said, and Syaoran nodded. Eriol unlocked the car and got in, but Sakura stopped.
"I forgot something in my locker. Wait up for me, ok?" Sakura said quickly, walking back into the school. Syaoran leaned back against the passenger seat, his soft amber eyes closing as he sighed.
"How are things going?" Eriol asked, and Syaoran smiled lightly.
"Things are going alright. We're getting the last of the baby things next weekend, then we'll be ready for the whole Lamaze thing. After that, it's just a matter of time." Syaoran replied.
"It really is a shame you two wouldn't work out beyond being the parents of a child. You two work pretty well together. Not to mention she's gorgeous." Eriol replied, and Syaoran nodded, his eyes opening.
"She wants to go out into the world. Who am I to stop her?" Syaoran asked, and Eriol nodded.
"Well, I still think you two would be a handsome couple." Eriol said, and Syaoran opened the door of the car and stepped out.
"Where are you going?" Eriol asked, adjusting his glasses with his index finger and moving some shaggy blue hair from his face.
"She's been gone too long. We have an appointment in an hour, and we still have to get home and catch the bus." Syaoran stated, then jogged back into the school to find Sakura.
The hallways were empty as Syaoran walked through them, his footsteps echoing in the silence. He rounded the corner to where Sakura's locker was, but stopped and ducked back around it when the sounds of belittlement could be heard. He peered around the corner, not wanting to get into whatever insult fest was ensuing.
"Admit it, whore, you don't know who he is." Syaoran heard one harsh sounding young woman say, a chorus of agreeing voices echoing hers. The next voice made his eyes bulge out of their sockets.
"It's none of your damn business anyway, so if you would just leave me the hell alone, I'll go my separate way." Sakura said quietly. She was tired from a long day of school, and being pregnant just made her fatigue worse. And now Krissy was back with a whole posse of other kids berating her like there was no tomorrow.
"I'll bet she fucked the whole soccer team and doesn't know who the father is." Another girl challenged, and the other girls laughed harshly. Syaoran watched Sakura's eyes burn with tears, but she shook them off.
"Think what you want. Spread any rumors you want. I'm not fucking telling you jack." Sakura said, pushing her way past the crowd and making her way down the hallway. Syaoran, seeing she was coming, took off down the hall and stopped, pretending to be walking back into the school to find Sakura. She rounded the corner, and upon seeing Syaoran tried to wipe her watering eyes and force a weak smile.
"Is everything okay?" Syaoran asked as he turned and walked with the small girl back out of the school. Sakura nodded, and Syaoran's heart fell slightly. He had expected her to come out and tell him about the girls and the horrible things they were saying about her. He opened his mouth to say something, that he had heard the whole thing, but he couldn't make his voice work. Sakura got into the car, and Syaoran followed, shutting the door and sitting in silence as Eriol put it into gear and sent it rolling down the street.
"Well Sakura you're looking pretty good for your second trimester. I would say the baby is going to end up coming in late May or early June at the latest." Doctor Kido announced, showing more ultrasound photos of the baby in Sakura's belly. Syaoran sat at Sakura's side, watching with wide eyes as the baby moved and bucked inside the woman beside him. He took a moment to look at Sakura, and saw her staring at the screen with a look he couldn't quite place.
"We're having our final exams in late May, and graduation is in June. Do you think I could have a C-section or something to have it early?" Sakura asked, and the doctor shook his head.
"I don't advise it. Unless something is deathly wrong, a C-section should not be performed. There is too much chance for complications." Doctor Kido said matter- of-factly, and Sakura sighed and nodded.
"I'll see you two in a month, alright?" Doctor Kido instructed, and Syaoran nodded, while Sakura just looked down at her stomach. He closed the door, and Sakura pulled her shirt down over her now more than obvious lump. Struggling to sit up, she jerked away from Syaoran when he attempted to help her.
"I can do this myself. I don't need you coddling me dammit." Sakura said angrily, and Syaoran nodded, walking with Sakura as she grabbed her coat and left the exam room.
"Sakura, why are you pushing me away all of a sudden?" Syaoran asked as they walked into their apartment after a silent bus ride. Sakura shrugged and went into the kitchen, pinning up the ultrasound pictures onto the fridge like a child puts up art for her mother.
"None of your business." Sakura said sharply, and Syaoran grabbed her arm. He made Sakura look into his dark amber eyes, and he could see her worry.
"What's going on? I heard those girls talking to you at the school today. Why won't you just tell them it's me?" Syaoran asked. Sakura's green eyes teared up again, and Syaoran felt his heart pang with guilt.
"I don't want you going through this too. You shouldn't be made fun of because of me." Sakura whispered, pulling her arm away from Syaoran and turning away. He knew how kids were at school, hell anywhere. Pregnant girls were usually easy girls, and that just wasn't the case here. They're case was special; they'd made a mistake. Sakura was no whore and Syaoran knew it.
"This isn't a time to be selfless, Sakura. You know I'm here through everything. And that means bitchy teenagers too." Syaoran said quietly, but Sakura didn't turn around. He touched her shoulder very gently, and she finally turned, revealing her tear stained face.
"I know." Sakura said miserably, and Syaoran pulled her into a hug. Sakura didn't resist; she was much too exhausted to try. They held each other for a moment, the dim light of the kitchen surrounding them like a soft shroud. They pulled slightly away so they could see each other, and their eyes met. For a moment the world moved back to when they barely knew each other, and the attraction snapped between them like a sparkler. Before Syaoran could stop himself, he leaned down and took Sakura's lips in his for the first time since they had sex six months before.
It was like an explosion of fireworks in their minds when their lips collided together again. For a moment they didn't do anything, they just reveled in the feeling of the other's lips on their own. Sakura broke the moment when she pulled Syaoran a little closer to her, her stomach preventing them from getting too close. Syaoran ran his hand through the petite girl's hair, taking in her scent as he pried open her mouth with his tongue ever so gently. Their tongues danced together for a split second when the phone rang, startling them out of their moment. They pulled apart, staring at each other before letting go and moving to the phone.
"Hello?" Syaoran asked, slightly drunk from the kiss he had just shared with Sakura. His eyes drifted to the girl, who sat at the kitchen table staring at her hands. Was she thinking about what just happened? Was she already regretting it? He wanted to know so desperately, but at the same time he wanted to know how he himself felt. It was such a spur of the moment thing, he didn't know what caused it. Could it be him feeling bad for her? Could it be something else? Shaking his head, he listened to the person on the other line.
"Have you seen Tomoyo? She hasn't been home yet, and school was out five hours ago." Eriol said on the other line, and Syaoran's eyes narrowed. It wasn't like Tomoyo to just not come home. Fearing something had happened, Syaoran told Eriol he would go look for her, and hung up the phone.
"What's going on?" Sakura said, startling Syaoran from his thoughts. Her voice was almost foreign to him, almost not real. He looked down at her, her small arms wrapped around her body, little belly showing through his oversized sweatshirt she had commandeered.
"Tomoyo didn't come home tonight. I'm going out to see if I can find her." Syaoran said, taking his coat and putting it on as Sakura followed him.
"I'm coming with you. I know all the places she would go if she needed to think. And I think that's what she needed today. She wasn't herself." Sakura said, trying her best to put the kiss she had shared with Syaoran to the back of her mind. It had to have been one of those caught-in-the-moment kisses. It had to be. She couldn't let it be anything more, because to Sakura, Syaoran was the lock that would keep every dream of hers from coming true. Him and this baby. . . their baby.
Syaoran couldn't argue with Sakura; she did have a point. If anyone would know where Tomoyo was hiding out, it would be her. So Syaoran did what anyone in his position could do. He handed Sakura her coat and locked the door behind them as they set out into the cold evening air.
During their walk, Sakura's mind was ablaze with questions about what had happened at the apartment. Was it something he had wanted to do for awhile now? Hadn't Syaoran only wanted to be around her to help her through this pregnancy because he felt bad? If he wanted her, she didn't know how she could react; part of her was still aching for him the same way she had months before in England, but the other part of her wanted to get far away from anything associated with him. She couldn't make her feelings sort themselves out, and it was tearing her in half. Sakura glanced over at Syaoran when she knew he was looking the other way and took in his dark handsome features accented by his chocolate hair. He was such a handsome man, and yet there was so much more about him that she was attracted to, like his caring nature regarding her, and his willingness to surrender his life for the good of her own. She hadn't known anyone to do that before in her life.
Sakura quickly changed her glance to something else when Syaoran looked over at her with his dark stormy ocher eyes. He watched her, walking beside him quietly with her hands in her pockets, her light brown hair blowing in the chilly night air. In any light she continued to look angelic, and that very look had him hooked from the moment he laid eyes on her. But how was he hooked? Was he in it for her body, because if he was he knew he was wrong. Or could he possibly be in this situation for something else, something real? Syaoran shook his head, unable to make everything add up correctly. He had thought about her while he was in Hong Kong, but hadn't longed to see her. But the moment he learned about the baby he knew he had a duty to fulfill. Perhaps Sakura was nothing more than a duty, and the kiss was partially out of pity, and partially out of lust. He couldn't make his mind center on anything as he walked through the cold in silence.
"You know, I shouldn't have let you come out here, you could get sick." Syaoran said suddenly, breaking the silence with his masculine voice. Sakura shook her head and looked away.
"I'll be fine. My mother never stayed in on cold days when she was pregnant." Sakura replied, walking on without dropping a beat. Syaoran raised an eyebrow; all he knew about Sakura's mother was that she didn't go to the doctor and didn't get sick when she went out in the cold. He'd known Sakura for too long to not know anything about her past.
"Tell me about your mother. Please." Syaoran asked, and Sakura stopped, turning to face him with cautious emerald eyes.
"Why do you think you need to know?" Sakura asked, and Syaoran shrugged. He didn't know why he HAD to know, he just wanted to.
"I just thought we could get to know each other better. That I can tell our baby about his mother's mother someday." Syaoran said, and Sakura laughed out loud.
"It'll really want to know all about my mother, and her bipolar disease. How she went loony and jumped off a bridge and left my dad to raise me and my brother. Our baby will love hearing that it may get the disease from me because I could be carrying it right this moment." Sakura exploded, her eyes fiery and filled with anger Syaoran hadn't seen his whole life.
"I didn't know." Syaoran said. Sakura shook her head and moved away from Syaoran a little, her breath coming out of her mouth in strong white puffs.
"I was three when she did it. My father raised me and Touya the only way he knew how. I promised him I wouldn't disappoint him, and when I got pregnant, it was the ultimate disappointment and I moved out. I couldn't bear the thought of him being ashamed of me and living under the same roof as him and my brother." Sakura said quietly. Syaoran stood amazed for a moment; she had lied to him about being kicked out of her home. Her father had no idea she was even carrying a child.
"Why didn't you just say so? Why'd you have to lie?" Syaoran asked, and Sakura shrugged, looking into his eyes with misery.
"You know, I don't know. I was scared, I still am. Let's just forget this even happened." Sakura whispered, seeking Syaoran's agreement in his dark eyes. Syaoran scowled, then relented, not wanting to make things worse.
"It's ok. It's in the past. I'm just glad you told me about your mother. I'm sure I would have liked her." Syaoran answered, and Sakura smiled.
"You would have, I'm sure." Sakura said, letting a smile spread over her face. It was quickly wiped out, however, when Sakura spied Tomoyo sitting alone on a nearby bench.
"Tomoyo?!" Sakura cried, making her way toward the small young woman, Syaoran following behind quickly. Tomoyo looked up, her violet eyes red and puffy.
"Sakura, I-" Tomoyo started, but Sakura stopped her before she could finish.
"Where have you been? We've all been worried sick!" Sakura cried. Syaoran stopped behind Sakura, looking at Tomoyo carefully. He could tell she'd been crying for some time, and who knew how long she had been sitting there on that bench. Tomoyo handed something to Sakura, who held it in her hand before gasping in shock.
"I'm pregnant." Tomoyo whispered, and Syaoran's eyes widened. His mind could only conjure one thought for the entire thing.
'This is one fucked up school year. . . '
As if this could get any more ridiculous! Now Eriol and Tomoyo are pregnant too!? Thanks for reading, and for the ones who like this story and have been waiting on an update, here it is so let me know if it's bad or not. Later all, have a good night.