Hurky: Sorry for not updating! I had finals to deal with, but now that's out of my way, so here's the next chapter!
Riku: You're always saying, "Sorry for not updating!"
Hurky: Shut up, Riku or I'll make you put on the Totoro suit. (Hurky doesn't own Totoro)
Sora and Kairi spent the next three months planning for their wedding. Kairi had to tell her boss that she was pregnant and requested a maternity leave and her boss, having three kids of her own and knew what it was like to be pregnant, approved.
In the meantime, Kairi continued to crave and eat. By then, she was no longer able to fit into her normal clothes because she gained some weight, so she borrowed Hurky's clothes from college before she lost weight. Kairi knew that she couldn't continue to wear Hurky's clothes, because she was now beginning to show. She would have to buy maternity clothes soon. But one good thing came out of the whole thing. As Kairi entered her second trimester of her pregnancy, she stopped throwing up, but she also found herself wearing flip flops a lot now because if she wore sneakers or boots, her feet would constantly ache. She also went through occasional mood swings. She felt really bad a few months earlier when she yelled at Riku just for changing the channel.
Kairi went to the doctor frequently. She got an ultrasound, but the doctor couldn't figure out whether it was a boy or a girl yet.
All while Kairi felt the effects of pregnancy, Sora felt the effects of planning his and Kairi's wedding. He already called and made reservations for the wedding in three weeks, bought his tuxedo, arranged the flowers, sent out the invitations, and called the caterers to make sure everything was in place for the reception. One warm afternoon in April, he sat with Kairi outside of her house on the porch. Both were feeling really tired.
"Man am I tired!" moaned Sora as he plopped himself on the bench. "I did a lot of stuff to prepare for the wedding! All the driving around I've been doing!"
"Not as tired as me." said Kairi.
"What did you do all day?" asked Sora.
"I'm carrying a baby!" said Kairi. "I've been carrying it for three months!"
"You're acting like the baby weighs a ton." joked Sora.
"A baby wears all pregnant women out." pointed out Kairi as she patted her normally flat stomach, which was now starting to get a little round. She looked up at her fiancee. "Sora, what are we going to name the baby when it's born?"
Sora turned to Kairi with a questionable look on his face. "You know what?" he asked. "I really don't know..."
"Well, if it's a girl, I was thinking of Melody." said Kairi.
"Uh...I don't really know about that name." admitted Sora. "How about Kaysee? Or Debbie? Man, this is hard! Now what our parents went through when they named us!"
Kairi laughed. "Then what if we have a boy?" she asked.
"Ooh, I know!" said Sora. "How about-"
"If it's going to be named after you, forget it!" said Kairi. "I will not have a Sora Jr.!"
"No, I have a name that's similar but it's a totally different name. It's also a boy and girl name." said Sora. "How about Skye?"
Kairi thought for a minute. "Hmm...Skye...that's actually a pretty name!" she said approvingly.
"Yeah, my mom almost named me Skye but then when my aunt had my cousin a month before I was born, she named my cousin Skye." said Sora. "But I don't even see my cousin Skye anymore!"
They both laughed. Then, they stopped and Kairi sighed dreamily.
"I can't wait for the baby to be born." she said. "I wonder what it will look like?"
"We'll know when it's born." said Sora.
A few days later, Hurky, Ryo, and Alexa went with Kairi to return her first wedding dress and pick out a different one. Kairi felt a little disappointed that she could no longer fit into the first dress without being uncomfortable around the stomach area, and her stomach was growing bigger every day.
"What seems to be wrong with the dress?" asked the woman behind the returns counter when Kairi put the box containing the dress on the counter.
"There was nothing wrong with it, but you see..." explained Kairi until she didn't know how to put that she was pregnant.
The woman noticed Kairi's round stomach and laughed a gentle laugh. "I know what you mean." she said. "This happens a lot. Do you have the receipt?"
Kairi pulled the receipt out of her wallet and gave it to the woman, who gave her back her money.
"Do you know where the maternity dresses are?" asked Kairi to the woman.
The woman pointed to the east side of the room. "Just over there." she said.
"So did you decide a name for the baby?" asked Alexa to Kairi as all four of them walked away from the counter to find another dress in the maternity section.
"Yeah, we decided that if it was either a boy or a girl, we would name it Skye." said Kairi.
"Aww, that's a cute name." said Hurky. "Did you come up with that?"
"No, Sora did." replied Kairi.
"Where will you guys live after you and Sora are married?" asked Ryo.
"My parents and Sora's parents are buying us a house for our wedding present." explained Kairi. "Sora and I both live in really small houses that we rent. Notreally a good placefor raising a kid. Speaking of which, both of our parents are taking us house hunting this weekend."
So, all four women began to scour the maternity section for a pretty dress.
"How about this one?" asked Ryo as she pointed to a long, white gown that wasn't poofy or anything, but it looked like one a celebrity would wear to her own wedding on TV.
"Hmm..." said Kairi thoughtfully as she went and checked out the dress. "This does look pretty comfy to walk down the aisle in." she said. "Let me go try it on."
She took the dress and went to the dressing room to try it on. She spent about ten minutes trying to get it on her.
"Kairi, do you need any help?" asked Alexa, who was standing outside the dressing room with Hurky and Ryo.
"No, I'm fine!" grunted Kairi. "I'm almost done! I'm just having a little trouble with my stomach and all."
Finally, she stepped out of the dressing room in the long, white gown with short sleeves and had a v-shaped neck. Her first dress didn't have sleeves.
"OMG, you look so pretty!" squealed Hurky.
"That dress really goes with your hair." commented Ryo as she noticed Kairi's hair color blending in so well with the white.
Kairi looked at the pricetag. "Hey, it's a little cheaper than my first dress was." she said. "I'll get this dress!"
Then, she ducked back into the dressing room, changed back into her other clothes (well, originally Hurky's clothes), and came out with the dress. She paid for the dress and all four of them left the store. They all piled into Alexa's car and Alexa began to drive...
When the weekend finally came, Sora went to Kairi's house to pick her up and take her to his parents' house, where his and her parents were going to wait. They were going to go searching for a house. However, Kairi was asleep when Sora pulled into the driveway and blared the horn.
"Kairi!" he called.
Kairi shot up in bed and turned to her alarm clock.
"Oh, it's 9:00 already?" she moaned. She got up and poked her head out the window. "I'll be right over there!"
She scrambled to change out of her pajamas and into a pink sundress, a maternity one Kairi's sister let her have, and flip flops. Then, she brushed her hair and went out the door without brushing her teeth or eating breakfast. She ran to Sora in his car, opened the passenger door, got in, buckled her seat belt, and kissed Sora on the cheek.
"Morning." she said.
"You just barely woke up, huh?" asked Sora.
"How did you notice?" asked Kairi as Sora pulled out of the driveway.
"You were in your PJs and your breath kinda stinks." said Sora.
"Some fiancee you are!" said Kairi jokingly.
Sora laughed.
Sora drove all the way to his parents house where he found Kairi's parents also waiting there. Sora pulled into the driveway and he and Kairi got out to be greeted by hugs and kisses from both future in-laws.
"So, are we ready to go house hunting?" asked Sora's father.
"We sure are." said Sora.
So, the three couples went over to the real estate people and then went on a tour to three houses.
"Hey, this is right by Scott Burkorini's house." Kairi said as soon as everyone pulled over to a yellow house with blue shutters.
"What are you talking about?" asked Sora. "We're right next door to Burkorini! And since when were you at Burkorini's house?"
"When his sister was in our Girl Scout troop, we'd have our meetings here." said Kairi fondly as she remembered havingthe Girl Scout meetings.
Right when Kairi said that, a man about Hurky's age with red hair walked out of his house wearing nothing but boxers, yawned, scratched his back, picked up the morning paper, and walked back inside his house without noticing the people standing next door.
"Forget it!" said Sora and Kairi at the same time.
"There's no way we're raising our baby with Burkorini around!" said Sora. "He could teach the baby to turn against me and exterminate me or something!"
Everyone chuckled on that one.
Next, they went to a pink house not far down the street that was really pretty, but it had only two bedrooms.
"What's wrong with two bedrooms?" asked Kairi's mother.
"We kinda wanted Skye to have a playroom and who knows?" asked Sora as he took Kairi's hand. "We might have another baby."
"Skye?" asked Sora's mother. "Is that what you're planning to name the baby?"
Sora nodded.
"I almost named you that!" said Sora's mother with a grin. "But my sister named your cousin that."
"Well, I don't even see cousin Skye anymore." said Sora. "I would have invited him to the wedding, but he's in the military, remember?"
After that, they all drove about a mile and a half to a third house. They got out and saw a white house right by the beach with blue shudders, a lush green lawn with a flower bed and a big tree with a low branch, ideal for hanging a tire swing. Sora and Kairi immediately fell in love with it.
"OMG, this house is so CUTE!" said Kairi adoringly as she and Sora stepped into the house.
"I see that you two are startinga family, so this place is perfect for a family, with the tree, and the ocean nearby so your kids can go play on the beach." said the real estate agent, with an incentive to sell this house. "Plus, it's gota patio so you and your friends could hold
Sora and Kairi turned to each other and their parents, as if to say, "What do you think?"
Both of their parents nodded.
"It's a good place to raise our grandchild," said Sora's dad approvingly.
Sora grinned and turned to the real estate agent. "We'll take it!" he said.
So, after the paperwork was done and everything, the real estate agent handed Sora the keys to the house...
Hurky: Wow...that was long.
Sora: Join me next time when me and Kairi move into the house and buy baby stuff!
Kairi: Hey, that was my line! And it's my story!
Sora: Well, Hurky still has writer's block on Dude, Where's Sora's Bike. See y'all later!