Keira sat up and wiped the burning tears from her now reddened eyes. She took a slow deep breath. "Jak…Jak I'm…" he listened intently, watching her troubled eyes. She looked deeper into his eyes than she ever had before, boring into his soul. "Jak…I'm pregnant."
Chapter #5 The News
Jak's mouth hung open slightly and his upper lip twitched nervously. His eyes were wide and it felt to his as if someone had just slapped him across the face with a shovel. His mind raced. "What the- what did she just say? Pregnant? PREGNANT! How the hell could this have happened? We only did it once…I guess that's enough… Oh man…this is bad…really bad. What am I going to do…?"
She looked away now, afraid to look back into her lover's eyes because she was ashamed of herself now and the tears came streaming out of her eyes once again. Jak couldn't speak. He kept starting to say something but nothing seemed appropriate.
"Keira?" Jak spoke in a low whisper. He reached to turn her face towards him. He stroked the side of her cheek and wiped her tears from her emerald eyes. "Keira, it's ok…" more tears poured from her eyes at his words. Nothing was ok now. She was going to have a baby; both of their lives would have to be put on hold for this.
"What will our friends say, and Daddy?"
Jak hadn't thought of that. "Oh my GOD! What would Daddy … er … uh … Samos say when he found out that not only have we been together, but that they made a baby in the process!" Samos had laid into Jak before, like when he and Daxter had gone to Misty Island against his will, but he would really yell loud when he found out that Jak had gotten his one and only daughter pregnant! Jak could already hear him screaming at him… "Jak you son of a ! You mother ! You dirty ! How the hell could you do this! Pregnant? PREGNANT! What the ? So this means you…with my daughter? The precursors better have a lot of mercy on you because when I get done with you…" Jak shuddered. "Oh boy… This was going to royally suck…"
Keira looked up at him with a questioned look on her face. His thoughts had interrupted his speech and it left her searching for his answer. "Jak?" Deep thought played across his features. His shocking blue eyes had faded to a light gray and his normally tan skin faded to a paler tone. She reached over and touched his arm gently to snap him back into reality. "Jak…are you…ok? You don't look so good."
"What? Oh…uh…I'm fine. I was just thinking…that's all." He tried to give her his best smile but it still came out half-heartedly despite himself. "But uh… back to your question. Do you really care what our friends think?"
"No…but…Daddy…"
"Well don't worry about it." His tone changed suddenly back to his old, confident self.
"What do you mean 'don't worry?' Are you insane? When my father finds out about all of this…" She hugged closer to him and cried softly on his shoulder.
"Keira, it's going to be ok… I'll take care of all of this… Don't worry… and please don't cry anymore. I can't stand to see you unhappy." She continued to sob in spite of his words. "I'll go talk to Samos and work all of this out… ok? We can make it through this if we just take it one step at a time." Jak hugged her tighter and kissed her on the fore head.
He glanced casually at his watch when her crying had subsided. "Uh Keira… I don't mean to rush you or anything, but it's getting kind of late." He pushed a wisp of blue-green hair out of her eyes.
She wiped her swollen eyes. "Yeah it is." She said noticing the black sky and huge moon above them. "Sorry…"
Jak was suddenly embarrassed. "I didn't mean anything by it. I just meant that I should probably get you home."
"Ok… let's go then." He got up and helped her up after him before they both dusted themselves off. He led her by the hand to the Naughty Ottsel's rather scrawny parking lot. Jak looked around, scanning the lot for Keira's Zoomer. "Uh…"
"Oh uh sorry. I forgot to tell you that I walked here. Just to get some fresh air and exercise you know?"
"So you want a ride home now, right?" Jak said sarcastically. Maybe teasing her like he normally did would cheer her up a bit.
"Oh no. I'll walk." She was feeling slightly better if she was going to go along with another one of his stupid inside jokes that only she and Jak could understand. He grabbed her slender arm and pulled her in for a quick kiss before leading her over to his own Zoomer and, after unlocking it; he opened the passenger door so she could enter.
"Jak?" Keira spoke in a timid voice while he was starting the vehicle.
"Yeah?"
"Would you mind, um… coming to my place tonight? I kind of need someone right now… That is, if you don't mind…"
Jak reached up to touch her cheek. "Of course I won't mind. I can't believe I didn't think of it before now." He gave his fragile lover a soothing hug before pulling out of the parking lot and heading down the dimly lit street in the direction of her apartment.
The Next Morning
Jak awoke the next day on her warm and comfy loveseat. Keira stirred in his arms under the blanket that they were sharing. He hugged closer to her so he could hear her breathe and feel her heart beat softly through her breast. Everything was perfect when he woke up to her. All of his hurts and concerns went away and all that was left was the woman he loved so much that it scared him. Time seemed to stop, just so he could be with her a little bit longer.
When Keira finally awakened she found that his big electric-blue eyes were staring down at her sweetly. She smiled warmly and he returned it. "Today's the day. We have to tell him."
His smile faded. He knew what she meant. Today was the day that they had to go tell her father that he had gotten her pregnant. "Yeah… I guess we have to sooner or later." And if they waited and he found out before they got to tell him, they'd both be in HUGE trouble. Even bigger than if they came to him to confess their not-so-great news on their own.
Later
Knock…knock Jak knocked at Samos's door boldly. If he was going to tell him what had happened, he had to do it like a man. "Who is it?" a familiar and raspy voice came from inside the house.
"It's Jak, and Keira." He called back to the older man inside that he was currently afraid of.
Samos opened the door, which creaked as it opened. He smiled at them. "Jak my boy, and Keira. What brings you two here."
Jak's expression turned to an unusual seriousness. "We need to talk."
The older man was taken aback a little. Jak was usually light hearted and funny, he knewnow that whatever they had come to say, must have been awfully important.
Without questioning them of the subject in which they wanted to discuss, he opened the door widely and stepped back to allow them to enter. Samos locked eyes with his daughter as she slipped through the doorway. He looked into her somber emerald pools for an answer for their coming, but she shamefully shifted her eyes down to the ground. Samos also tried to make eye contact with the boy, who was now a man; that he had always thought of as a son; but he never looked the old man in the eye. He couldn't.
All three of them sat down in the cozy living room, with Jak instinctively sitting next to Keira and Samos across from them. Jak wanted, needed to be close to her for this. They needed each other's support when they let her father in on their "news".
Jak took a long deep breath before beginning. He figured he should be the one doing most of the talking since he was supposed to be the man in their relationship, that, and he kind of caused this to happen. Yes, it took two people to make a baby, but he still felt somewhat responsible. "Wait a minute…baby!" He had been so caught up in the fact that they not only had to tell her father about, what he saw as proof of sleeping together, but they were going to have to raise a baby. They were going to be parents! It just seemed so unreal: him…a father…and Keira…a mother…
Keira caught him daydreaming again and touched his knee gently to snap him back into reality. He had been doing a lot of that lately.
"So, what brings you two here today?" The man across from the couple grinned. But he would loose that look in an all-too-short moment.
Jak cleared his throat. "Samos…" He began slowly. Everything that was said here had to be perfect. "Samos, you know that I love your daughter, more than anything." Jak looked him in the eyes and Keira slipped her hand into his giving it a small, affectionate squeeze.
"Yes. I am very aware of your…relationship with my daughter. You are like a son to me, and I couldn't approve more of it."
Jak's gut knotted. Like a son to him; how was he ever going to tell him that he had betrayed him? That he had gotten his daughter, pregnant. He would tell him, he had to tell him. He spoke slower and less sure of himself. "What if I told you that I had…that I had…made love…to your daughter?" His hands were trembling now. Keira gripped one of his hands tighter.
Samos's jaw dropped slightly although he attempted not to show that it had shocked him. He managed to sputter out a moderately quiet, "Ok…" He seemed to calm down a bit now but the worst was to come.
"That's…not all." Jak looked up again as he said this. "Keira found out four weeks ago…that…that she's…she's pregnant."
Samos turned a bleach white; blood draining from his face. It was as if someone had just knocked the wind out of him and he was suddenly rendered speechless. "Wha- what did…you…just say…?"
Jak intended to repeat himself but Keira spoke up for the first time. "Daddy…I'm pregnant. And…Jak…it the…the father…" Jak clenched his teeth and his hand that was not in Keira's formed into a fist. "Oh boy…here we go. Samos is going to scream at me until I'm deaf." He closed his eyes and hung his head as he prepared himself for the worst.
"Jak." His eyes shot open and he leisurely lifted his head at the man's rather loud voice. Or at least it seemed loud. He was somewhat tense today. The elder man placed his hand on Jak's shoulder with Keira watching apprehensively.
"Oh no," she thought, "This can not be good…"
"Jak, I'm proud of you."
Both Keira and Jak looked up abruptly and asked in unison, "WHAT!"
"Yes, I am very proud of both of you."
Jak was flabbergasted. "Samos, did you hear what I just said?"
"Yes…I did and I couldn't be more proud of either of you."
Jak blurted out in his confusion, "Are you out of your mind? I just confessed to you that I got your daughter pregnant, and you're PROUD! You've got to be kidding me!" He realized then that he was standing and timidly sat back down.
"Jak, I not proud of you for that. I am proud of you because you came and told me about it as soon as you found out. And Keira, I'm proud of you because you told Jak as well as me. Yes, it was a mistake, but admitting it is the first step."
"So…you're not mad?"
"I'm not pleased with what happened, but it takes a lot of courage to come and tell someone. You can't trust just anyone to do what you did today."
"Thanks Samos. And I want you to know that I'm going to do the right thing." Keira looked up at him now. They hadn't talked about this.
"And what exactly is that?" The older man was puzzled along with her.
"I'm going to marry her."
(A.N.) Dun dun dun… Uh yeah… Just wait till the next chappie! You're gonna freak out! Oh yeah and…
Jordan Mar here is your hug…
Hairy comes hopping out from behind my computer and grabs Jordan and swings her around while squeezing her until she turns blue.
Me: Uh Hairy…I think you should stop now…
Hairy looks a bit sad but drops Jordan and hops back home.
Me: Uh…sorry about that… Hairy gets a little hyper when he doesn't take his medicine…