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Keitaro...I'm Pregnant: All Together Now
I lay out the futons side by side in my room, getting ready for tonight's sleep over. I still can't believe our luck: Mutsumi, Naru, Su and Motoko all are on the field trip together, Kitsune has to work late and Sarah is with her papa. This is the perfect opportunity for my friends to get to know Raymond's friends.
It's been weeks since Keitaro and I told the truth about my pregnancy with other people and it couldn't have gotten any better. My friends are more accepting about this that they have taken me to a few baby shops so I can get an idea of what I should be getting. It's funny when we see Kazuhiro ask Akiko when he should expect a little one of their own. Also, they been chatting up with Raymond more, being friendly with him. Speaking of him, his friends have shown up to the apartments almost every time they go to school since knowing the truth. I try to keep my eye on Jill, but she and the guys distract the other residents in order for Keitaro and I to be alone that I don't need to. But I'm a little concern about Steve, who had 'accidentally' walked in on Naru and Motoko changing numerous times. I just hope he doesn't do that tonight!
Once everything looks set, I go downstairs to see my friends all staring at Raymond, who is sleeping on the couch. I wouldn't mind them doing this, but they've been staring at him over an hour now!
"You guys still at this?"
"Come Shinobu!" Kazuhiro softly yells. "None of us have seen an American sleep before. It just so...well...interesting."
"INTERESTING?!" I yell. "He sleeps like us! There is nothing interesting about it!" I see Keitaro walking out of the dining room. I rush over to him, give a big hug and kiss him on the lips.
"Come on you two! Get a room!" Sachiko tells me, causing me to giggle. We all hear a knock on the door. Keitaro excuses himself to check. A minute later, he comes back with Raymond's friends.
"Hey!" Mark yells, getting our attention. "Now, who said you could start the party without me?" I watch Jill come from behind, punching him in the arm.
"Me since you didn't say us."
"I got the booze!" Steve yells out, hold a case of beer in each hand. "So, who wants to drink?"
"Steve! Most of the people here are underage! And one of them happens to be my girlfriend, who's pregnant!" Keitaro tells him. Just hearing him calling me his girlfriend puts a smile to my face.
"Fine! Fine! More for me than."
"You mean us!" Jill says. "Hey! Where's Raymond?"
"Right here." Hideki says, pointing to him on the couch. I still wonder how he can't wake up from all the talking or yelling. All of his friends walk up to him, staring at him like they're examining a dead body.
"Don't tell me he pulled another all night photography shoots again," Mark says.
"He did," Keitaro tells him. "I saw him shooting something when I got downstairs for breakfast. He wasn't finish until about eleven when he crashed on the couch." Mark looks very eager for some reason.
"Not it!" He yells. I thought that would wake him up, but his just turns over to his side.
"Awww man!" Steve lets out.
"What's going on?" Keitaro ask.
"Something fun we get to do to Raymond," Mark says, walking away with Keitaro.
"Do I really have to do this?" Steve says with concern, looking at Jill.
"You heard what he said before. He would rather have a guy do that than me." All of us look dumbfound, wondering what they're going to do to Raymond.
"OK. Fine. I just hope..."
"I got it!" Mark yells, holding up a fire extinguisher above his head. Now, what in the world are these American people doing?
"Shoot."
"Come on Steve. It's time to wake up Raymond."
"Wait guys! Let me get my camera ready." Jill pull out a small digital camera from her bag, pointing it at Raymond. "Ok guys. Go for it."
We watch Steve go behind the couch, seeming unwilling to do something. Both Mark and Jill tease to do it until he gives in, reaching at Raymond to unbuckle his belt. We see his disgusted face as he pulls up the waist of the pants, making enough room for Mark to put the hose of the fire extinguisher in. Once he pushes the lever, heavy white smoke comes out of his pants, causing him to jump a foot from the couch, screaming. After a bright flash from the camera, he comes crashing back down on the couch. He rolls over, trying to stand but hits his legs on the table, sliding across it before falling to the floor. No one in the room can contain their laugher at what we just witness. I take a seat at a nearby chair, incase I fall.
"Damn Ray-Ray!" Mark snickers, crying so hard. "That's worse than the last time we did this to you." Last time? You mean they done this to him before? I really wished I could have seen that!
"SHUT UP!" He cries, taking out the hose from the fire extinguisher from his pants. He tries to stand up, but is having a hard time. "I'll beat you to a bloodily pulp, once I take the feeling back...huh...down there." We laugh even harder, causing a few people to fall down.
Once we all calm down, everyone began to introduce themselves. Jill managed to say a few of our names, including mine. Steve on the other hand, couldn't pronounce any, suggesting my friends to give him an English name. I was glad to see Mark stepping in to say he'll translate the names for him. I can tell some of my friends don't understand Steve's problem with names. Well, neither do I.
"Now that we know who's who, what should we do next?" Keitaro ask.
"Lets eat some food," Jill suggest. "What do you have?"
"We have a lot, but it's really for the people living here right now," I tell her. The residents here started noticing that we were getting short on money with the people we been bring over. So all the food here is only for us.
"That's fine. We got some money. If we pitch in a little, we can get something to feed all of us."
"That's a good idea. But what should we have?"
"How about pizza?" Akiko ask. My friends cheer in agreement. I see Raymond slap his forehead.
"Great! Now you done it!" I look at him oddly, wondering why he said that.
"As long as it's vegetarian." Steve says.
"Come one man!" Mark shouts, pushing him. "How can you deny me the all meat experience?"
"Dude! I been most of those animals!" I give an even stranger and confusing look at Steve.
"I suggest a large pizza with pickles, bananas and mint frosting," Jill says with a bright blushing smile. I notice that all my friends and Keitaro have drop their mouths, looking at her with confusion and a little disgust at what she wants. I was wondering if Americans eat that kind of pizza when I see the guys also looking disgusted.
"Uh Starfire, not everything on the menu is a pizza topping," Raymond tells her.
"Oh..." I feel relief when she says that and giggle from embarrassment, but I wonder why he called her Starfire.
"Double pepperoni," Mark recommends.
"I'm not eating meat!" Steve snaps at him.
"There's no meat in pepperoni!" Mark snaps back as all four of them yell at one another what they want. I don't understand a single word what they're say, noticing that all of us are pretty baffle at what were seeing. Suddenly, they all look at us with a hellish expression
"WHAT DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD HAVE?" They all say together in an evil tone. It causes all of us to take a step back. I see Akiko grab Kazuhiro out of fear. Even Tsuyoshi and Hideki, who are great martial art fighters, look frighten as they both trip over each other and fall to the floor. The situation feels too tense when Raymond and his friends start laughing.
"Man! You should have seen the looks on your face!" Steve manages to say through his laughing cries.
"Yeah! It's was just priceless!" Jill adds as Mark falls to the floor laughing. Raymond covers his mouth and walks away from the group. The laugher of them is contagious because for some reason, we are all laughing.
"Man! That was the most frightening, yet funny experience I ever had," Kazuhiro says, still holding Akiko. "I swear that you guys were going to kill us or something."
"We wouldn't do that man," Mark tells him, getting up from the floor. "We're all friendly people, well...Jill, Ray-Ray and I are anyway. We're not sure what Steve is yet."
"HEY!" Steve yells, pumping his fist.
"Come on guys! No fighting now!" Jill says. "Let's decide on what we should really have." We all still agreed on pizza, getting three large ones with different toppings. Keitaro and I know of a pizza place on the other side of town that will delivery under 30 minutes or it's free and we always get it free since they're always late.
Because Mark knows a little bit of Japanese, we make him place the order. We all listen to him, some what amaze in how perfect he speaks the language. When he finishes, we all congratulate him with cheers and claps.
"Thank you. Thank you," he says, smiling brightly. "But I don't deserve it. I should know the language since I minor in it."
"Minor?" Some of us say in confusion. "What do you mean?"
"Well, it's like a backup for your major in college."
"So, what is your major?" Hideki ask.
"Administration of justice."
"Oh. How about you Jill?"
"Me? Well, my major is Raymond's minor and my minor is Mark's major." My friends and I shake our heads, wondering what she meant.
"Huh?"
"She majors in theater and minors in administration of justice," Raymond tells us.
"Wait! You're in theater, Raymond?" Tsuyoshi ask.
"Yeah. Didn't you know?"
"No! I only thought you only did photography."
"Well, now you know. So there."
"What do you major or minor in Steve?" Sachiko ask.
"Me? Well, I'm still undecided."
"You are?" Akiko says in a surprise tone. "I thought everyone knew what they wanted to be once they got into college?"
"Not really," Mark says. "People go to college for different reasons. Some people I know are very smart, but don't know what they want to be. Other people have changed their major because they either don't like it or want to be something else."
This kind of hits my friends and I real hard. Within a few months, we'll all be graduating and going our separate ways. Most of them want to go to college, but don't know what to be. I get a few more years to decide since I'm going to be raising a baby, but I'd be in the same boat with my friends in what I want to do in the future.
"There is no real rush in what you want to be when you're in college," Jill adds. "But it would be nice to have a major. I mean, Steve is the oldest one of us and he still doesn't know what he wants to be!"
"Oldest one?" Kazuhiro sarcastically ask. "He can't be older then Keitaro. He's 23." I wanted to slap him silly for saying that when Steve speaks.
"That's all? Man! I'm 25!" We look at him in a surprising matter. It's kind of hard to believe that someone a little older then Keitaro doesn't know what they want to be.
"You're that old and you still don't know what you want to be?" I ask. "What have you been doing?"
"Let's see. Three years at Chico State. Good party school. Then I transferred to the University of Santa Cruz. Better party school. After three years there, I transferred to University of San Francisco. I'm going to make it a party school."
"Yeah right!" Jill cries out, laughing at him.
"Oh shut up Starfire."
"Hey! That's the second time someone called Jill, Starfire," I say, finally remembering to ask. "Why do you call her that?"
"Oh. It's her teen titan name?"
"What?" My friends and I yell.
"All of us, including Raymond's girlfriend, watch a cartoon show called the Teen Titans. We like it so much that we gave each other names. As you now know, Jill's titan name is Starfire. Mine is Beast Boy."
"I'm Robin," Raymond adds.
"And I'm Cyborg," Mark tells us. "By the way, Robin, if it's all right with you, we would like to make Keitaro an honorary titan, he's always hanging out with us." I'm more stun about this then Keitaro.
"I don't mind, but shouldn't we talk to Raven about this? She's part of the team."
"I already did," Jill says. "I told her everything about what's been going with you and she's fine with it."
"That's good. Wait! You told her everything? Like..."
"How you supposedly got another girl pregnant? Yeah, I did. But is fine that you were helping a Billy." Raymond starts crying a waterfall.
"Dammit! I wanted to tell her."
"But I had her number and a phone card. Now, give Billy his titan name."
"Fine! Uh...what name? There are only five titans."
"Don't you remember the honorary titan?"
"It's been a while. Let me think." He thinks hard about it for a bit before giving a surprising look. "Oh. That guy."
"What guy?" Keitaro ask.
"I'll only tell if you want to be a teen titan."
"Sure. I get along with all of you really well." Raymond walks over to him and shakes his hand.
"Then welcome to the titans, Aqualad."
"What?!" My guy friends begin to laugh. I don't know much of comics in America, but that has to be one of the worst names I have ever heard of. Still, that's my boyfriend's titan name now. "Aqualad?! What does he do? I never heard of him before!"
"Pretty much can breathe under water and talks to the fishes." Now my girl friends are laughing, seeing Keitaro dropping his head down in shame.
"I'm sorry, but that's lame."
"But he is the cutest one in the show, Aqualad!" Jill says in a cute high pitch voice, staring at him like she wants him.
"Hey!" I yell at her, putting my arms around him. "Don't be flirting with my Aqualad!" I can hear a few of my friends snicker at that comment.
"Hey Shinobu. Why are you getting angry at Jill for?" Sachiko ask.
"Because she likes to steal Asian boyfriends from another girls." I see Akiko get startled.
"Is that true?"
"Hell yeah!" Steve shouts. "Starfire been trying to seduce Aqualad ever since they met."
"Shut up Beast Boy!"
"And she's been trying to get the hook-up with Robin," Mark adds. "Even those he's dating Raven and they're best friends."
"SHUT UP CYBORG!" She begins to argue with them. Akiko is surprise by what she had been told, clutching onto Kazuhiro's arm.
"Hey Jill! You can take one of the twins over there!" She says, pointing to Tsuyoshi and Hideki. "This one is taken!" She wraps her arms around him, staring at her with an nasty expression. Jill looks embarrass, taking it out on Raymond.
"Damn you! Why can you guys spread these lies about me!"
"But I didn't say anything! Besides, they aren't lies!" Now Jill chases Raymond around the couch. They go around about a dozen times before he trips, landing on the couch. Jill jumps on top of him, grabs a pillow and beats him silly with it, causing everyone to laugh. After a few minutes, Mark and Steve goes over to them and yanks Jill off.
"That's enough Starfire. We don't want you arrested to killing my best friend now," Mark says.
"Fine!" She hits him with the pillow and throws it at Steve, hitting him in the head. "Just because I'm telling the truth about Aqualad doesn't mean I should deserve this."
"With your past, you should!"
"SHUT UP ROBIN!"
"Hey Jill," Keitaro gets a evil glance from her. "Or...Starfire." Now she's smiling. "You said that my character is the handsome one. What does he look like?"
"I can't really describe your character's appearance. You have to watch the show to find out what he looks like."
"Darn. We don't get the Teen Titans here."
"That reminds me. Be right back." Raymond runs over to the stairs and returns in a few minutes holding some CD cases.
"What's that?"
"The unofficially first season of the Teen Titans."
"Unofficially? What do you mean by that?" Hideki ask.
"Well, the DVDs aren't licensed. Our friend Bruce burn it and sent them to me."
"Wait! Bruce burned them?" Mark ask as Raymond nods his head. "Isn't that illegal to do?"
"It's illegal to sell them Officer Cyborg, just like when you sold those bootleg Titanic videos in high school, remember?" We all watch Mark begin to sweat profusely, looking nervous.
"Whoa Mark! You actually sold something that was not legal?" Jill ask. Her and Steve wait for an answer. I really didn't care if he sold bootleg videos or not. It's actually common in Asian countries. He seems to delay when there is a knock on the door.
"Hey! Pizza man is here," he says, changing the subject as he looks at his watch. "And he's ten minutes late! I'll go get it." He takes one step before Keitaro stops him.
"Oh no, no, no. I'll go get it so you can be with your friends. By the way, Raymond, pop in those DVDs. I think we are all curious to see this Teen Titans show."
"OK."
"Do you think we'll be able to watch it?" Steve ask. "I mean, were in a different regional."
"I'm not sure. I got this in the mail yesterday. But this is Bruce we're talking about." He walks towards the DVD player in the living room as the rest of us take our sits on the couches. When Keitaro comes back and sets the pizzas on the small table, I make him sit in the two-sit couch on the side so no one can get near us. My friends sit on the opposite side together. Once the player runs the DVD, Raymond take a sit away from his friends, in between them and us.
For the next four and a half hours, we all watch the Teen Titans as we munch on our free pizza. This Cartoon Network logo is bothersome, but I am very surprise that the cartoon was drawn like an anime. They have stuff like chibis and the arm waves that anime shows have here. I'm impressed with the way it's drawn. I am also surprise to recognize Puffy AmiYumi singing. My friends and I are big fans of them. The joke with the pizza thing that the Americans did came up in the first episode and we all gave that 'snake eye' look. Well, mine was more like 'you guys practice this a lot, didn't you' look.
We were all quiet through most of the show, laughing at the funny things and cheering during the fighting sequence. But when we reached a show about a boat being in the sea, the Americans started singing the opening theme, in Japanese. I was about to ask why when I hear the theme song began... in Japanese! My mouth drops and my eyes in spirals. Most of my friends look that same way. Keitaro got up from the couch and smack the TV, yelling "Is this really in Japanese?!" as Raymond and his friends laugh. This is confusing. I mean, this is shown in America, right?
That same episode shows Aqualad. He looks well drawn, but doesn't that much hair bother him in the water? I check on Jill when her character looked all love sick around him; but she was just watching the show.
The rest of the time went back smoothly with the Japanese lyrics popping back in a few episodes with one also have the song K2G. Once it's all over, we began moving around and stretching. Well, they did. I held onto Keitaro tightly so he couldn't get up.
"That was a great show," Tsuyoshi says, seeming to be play fighting with Mark.
"Yeah. It's the best."
"What should we do next?" Akiko ask, stretching out her back. "It's only eleven."
"How about karaoke?" Hideki suggest as I notice Keitaro shaking his head. I found that odd since he likes karaoke when I hear the American guys yelling.
"NO!" My friends and I are taken back by this. They seem really angry about karaoke.
"Come on guy! It'll be really fun!" Jill pouts, jumping around like a little kid.
"But you know we don't like karaoke!" Raymond tells her with his arms cross.
"Than sing your acappella thing," Keitaro says, getting out of my grip and standing up. Both Mark and Steve give ghostly looks.
"How do you know he sings acappella?" Steve ask.
"He printed a picture of you three singing outside some store."
"Oh great!" Mark exclaims.
"What's this acappella?" I ask.
"Acappella is when a person or group of people who sing without any instrumental accompaniment," Raymond replies.
"You think you guys can sing some acappella?" Sachiko ask. "I can't speak for everyone, but I never heard it before." The guys look at each other, giving odd gazes as if they're talking with their minds.
"I'm going to need another drink before we start," Steve says walking away.
"Great!" Jill yells, jumping up and down, clapping her hands. "These guys are pretty funny when they sing acappella, dancing and moving with the beat of the song like a bunch of morons!"
"Hey!" The guys shouts.
"Should we turn on the karaoke machine so you guys can do your acappella?" Hideki ask.
"Don't," Raymond tells him, walking over to the DVD player and taking of the DVDs. "That karaoke stuff has musical background. Acappella only uses voices and maybe the snap of the fingers."
"Oh. Well, what songs can you sing?"
"Anything as long as we know it," Steve answers, taking a drink. "Speaking of which, what should we start with?"
"How about Stacy's Mom?" Raymond suggest.
"NO!" Jill yells, looking angry with fire in her eyes. "It's a stupid, popish song that no one in there right mind likes!"
"Damn Jill! What crawled up your butt?" Steve ask.
"Yeah! I mean, we really don't like Raymond's popish music, but that one's all right. Why do you hate it?" Mark adds.
"She only hates the song because her middle name is Stacy." Raymond says looking like nothing's wrong. Jill, on the other hand, looks like a deer caught in the headlight while Mark and Steve cover their mouths.
"What?! Where did you get that from?" Jill ask with a pale complexion.
"You think Fong Ling only tells secrets about me to you, Jill Stacy Valentine?" He gives her a fake grin as she sweats profusely. I notice Mark and Steve grab each other by the shoulder, swaying side to side.
"Stacy's mom has got it goin on, she's all I want and I've waited for so long, Stacy can't ya see? You're just not the girl for me, I know it might be wrong, but I'm in love with..." A pillow is thrown at Mark, causing him to fall down. Jill runs at Steve and chokes him to the ground.
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" She yells repeatedly. The rest of us, even Keitaro and Raymond, have been laughing at the singing performance that seeing this added more wood to the fire. I hold Keitaro tightly while I found myself almost falling.
"Boy! This is the first time that Jill doesn't come after me!" She looks back at him with evilness in her eyes and a scary smile. "Uh oh..." She gets off of Steve and chases after Raymond around the living room. Once she tackles him to the floor, we began to set up the karaoke system.
The next few hours, we all sing like fools. My friends and I may love karaoke, but none of us would be getting a singing contract anytime in our lives. Raymond and his friends are worse, but they did provide entertaining dancing for us. I think Keitaro sounds great, especially when we do a duet together. Just hearing his voice makes my heart melt. Jill tries to sing with him, but her friends and I stop her at every opportunity.
Near the end, some of them were sleepily or already a sleep. Well, I think Steve passed out. We decided to stop and pack it in for the night, even those I was feeling energize. I told everyone that I would stay and clean-up. Everyone thanks me and goes to bed. It only took me a few minutes before I am done. I turn off the lights and make my way to my bedroom when I saw Keitaro standing next to the door.
"What's wrong?"
"I can't sleep." I smile at him, somehow knowing everyone else is asleep.
"Me either."
Without another word, I take him by the hand and lead him to the top of the apartments. I try to climb the roof, but he holds me back, telling me it's too dangerous under my condition. I'm a little sad since this is my secret getaway place. I was about to go down in despair when Keitaro grabs me from behind and carries me over to the roof, gently putting me down at the top.
"My hero!" I kiss him on the cheek. We simultaneously sit on the roof with him holding me from behind. I'm always cautions when I was on the roof, but with Keitaro holding me, I know nothing bad can happen.
"How was tonight for you?" He ask.
"It was oddly refreshing."
"Oh? How so?"
"My friends were all tense and intimidated, meeting American college kids. They thought they would be intellectuals, not a bunch of elementary students!"
"Yeah! I feel that way to when we're together at campus. But what about you?" I think about it for a bit, wanting to say it right.
"I was relieved when Steve didn't have a major and is older then you. It gives me a little more thought in what I want to be before I try the Toudai entrance exams."
"Well, whatever you decide to do, I'll be proud of you." His head begins to rest on my shoulder as I stare at the nightlife of the city.
"I forgot how beautiful this place is at night."
"Yeah, but nothing compares to you." I begin to blush, hoping he doesn't feel the heat of my cheeks.
"You're just saying that!"
"Am not!"
"Am too!" We playful fight a little more before realizing what were doing and laugh. He holds me a little tighter as I hold his hands. The atmosphere around us feels like we don't need to say anything at all, knowing what the other is thinking. But I speak anyway.
"It's been so long since we were last up here."
"I know. I still remember it." I know what he's talking about. It was when we came back from San Francisco. We raced each other to see to who make it to the top first, laughing and being cheery all the way there. It ended up in a tie, but that's because we were holding hands. We climbed up the roof and held each other, staring at the sunset. The feeling at the time was of happiness because we were finally together; but also forbidden since no one would agree to us being a couple. But I don't care what anyone thinks of us. I only care about Keitaro. I still do.
"Me too." I turn my head slightly and kiss him. We continue to look at the city for about ten minutes before he carries me down from the roof and back to my room.
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