Tired
The gang got back to the school, worn out from all the fun at the beach and stuffed with a big breakfast. Yumi liked the way the school had private showers, like her home. So with the school a little dead with most of the boarders on vacation or doing something for the day, everyone got to have some time under the hot showers. Rejuvinating their skin and relaxing their salt dried muscles, each left to their rooms for a well deserved nap.
Yumi's Room
Yumi went to her room which astounded her, being roomateless she had complete access to the computer desk or study desk, the radio boom box, dressers and closet, and bed choice. The floor was a very short carpet that was warm to her bare feet from the sun light coming through the window. A nice yellow lazy atmosphere that helped the Japanese girl settle on the bed of her choosing.
Falling onto the soft sheets, "Hmmm, I hope Ulrich gets here soon. He'd love these beds and such…perfect pillows…" she dozed off to sleep.
Girls' Dorm
"Oh man! Its good to be in my own room!" Kila sighed out tired and exhausted as she fell onto her bed.
Terra and Aelita giggled seeing their purple haired friend sprawled out on her lower bunk already falling asleep. The two girls dried their hair and sat on the desk chairs, Aelita wanted to tell the blonde girl something important that bothered her like a annoying fungus gnat going into ones nose.
"Something's on your mind, I can see it." Terra said as she looked out the window.
The sky was clear and sunny with no cloud in sight. A few sea gulls sat on the edge of the next buildings roof waiting for something.
"What makes you say that?" Aelita asked trying to evade the question.
"How long have we been roommates?" Terra took up a brush from the desk and began to comb her hair.
"Three years and a half." Aelita responded nevously.
"Then you should know by now that I can tell when your not acting normal." Terra had a motherly aura around her.
Aelita didn't respond and just sighed from a guilt within her heart.
"You can tell me anything you know that." Terra put down her brush and looked straight into her roommates eyes worried.
"Me and Nathan…we…we uh…had sex in the dunes last night." Aelita told her fearing the motherly behavior would start yelling at her in disgust but to her fortune something else happened.
"Oh I'm so happy for you two I was worried something more serious happened!" Terra looked extremely happy.
"You made me feel like it was wrong at first." Aelita giggled in relief.
"Well what spurred the moment?" Terra asked.
"I found out why he is so emotional at times. He lost his only little sister to slave traders and to this day he and his family quarrel over letting her go into that hell. I found him having a mental breakdown, he woke me up getting off the truck that night, and I found out the story of his sorrow. After I managed to hear all of the excoriating details, something came over me. I kissed him over and over till we ended up having sex." Aelita blushed pink feeling embaressed having done all that.
"You're a kind woman, your heart is big and compassionate. You should be proud of that, I think you helped that poor boy. But did you use protection?" Terra switched back to a questioning nature.
Then it hit her, it all happened so fast that they had no time to think of safty, "No"
"Oh dear…we'll go to the store tomorrow and pick up a test kit for you. Hopefully you weren't ovulating." Terra got up and got her phone out of her purse, "I'll get Guerrmo to take us."
"No don't, what if he tells Nathan!" Aelita shot up from her seat and rushed to her to stop the call.
"Don't worry Aelita, Guerrmo is my boyfriend he'd never tell anything that I didn't want him to say outloud. He won't tell Nathan I promise." Terra reassured her friend.
So Aelita let the call go and laid on her bed on her stomach, she thought of the reprocussions of her love with that boy. There was also the what if baby to consider and Jeremie for that matter. When Terra finished the call and hung up, the blonde girl came by her worried friend and did her best to comfort her.
The Boys Room
"Dude my legs are killing me." Nathan whined jokingly falling on the floor like he just got shot.
"Hey be careful you don't know if there's tacks sticking out of the floor?" Guerrmo told his friend as he started to go to sleep.
"I think I'll just go to sleep right here." Nathan began to snore minutes later.
Guerrmo though just laid in his bed and looked to the ceiling bored and exhausted at the same time. Sleep wasn't going to come to him easily, so he moved around for a comfortable spot. He'd almost found sleep when his cell phone vibrated on the head piece of his bed, he picked it up and answered.
"Hello?" Guerrmo said groggily.
"Its me, did I catch you at a bad time?" Terra said in her alluring voice which always got his attention.
"You know no matter what, I'm always here for ya. So what do you need?" Guerrmo got up and sat listening.
"Are you alone cause I need to talk to you in private." So Guerrmo walked out of the room and into the hall, "I need you to take me and Aelita to the Pharmaceutical.
"Sure why?" he started to wonder.
"Don't tell anyone okay, Aelita needs a pregnancy test." When she told him his eyes lit up in shock.
"So that's what they did last night!" he said gasped.
"Well there was a rational sense and a good one that led to the intimacy so don't be mad or angry. There is a chance that she wasn't fertile at the moment so we will get that test tomorrow for her." She told him straight.
"Okay sure, we'll leave around ten after breakfast. Tell anyone we're going to the store for something, I'll talk to you later love you." Guerrmo told her running his hand through his hair stunned.
"Love you too bye." And they hung up.
The good thing for the rest of the day was everyone lost most of their energy and slept in all day and night. Guerrmo didn't have to face Nathan with a false face or risk exposing the problem at hand, or catastrophe.
Next Day
Everyone got up temporarily drowsy from the over sleep they took. At breakfast they sat in the cafeteria where ten other students sat eating or socializing. Guerrmo, Terra, and Aelita sat at the far end of the table trying to be less talkative and hurried up with their meals. They evaded most of the funny talk and possible suspicion from friends, making it out of the school easily.
"That was too close." Aelita sighed worried as her and the others walked fast to the truck.
"We need to be careful till you take that test." Terra warned her.
"Let's just get that test first and worry about the others afterwards." Guerrmo told the girls sternly turning off the alarm to his truck and unlocking it.
They left the school and went through several streets till they got to the one place they needed to be. Parking between a van and a small Lincoln town car, they walked into the store with adrenaline pumping. In just a few short minutes, Aelita had four test kits in her arms and they quickly bought them. Then they left back to the school, but with a plan.
"Aelita, Guerrmo will drop us off at the front side of the school. You and me will enter there to avoid the others and go to the second level bathrooms to do the tests, so Yumi or Kila won't see us. Guerrmo will park his truck and if need be act as a distraction for us till I call him when we're finished!" Terra told her as they neared the high school.
This all made Aelita antsier like she was in an undercover sting. Guerrmo stopped at the designated point and she left inside the building with her blonde friend. Guerrmo's black Avalanche left the scene quietly before they went inside. Where they did as planned and climbed the stairs, finding the restroom unlocked and ready for secretive use.
Guerrmo had to actually act as a distraction, for forty five minutes he had to wait for his phone to quake alive in his pocket. He nearly ran out of his false story that someone had come close to running into him.
"Aelita how did the test show?" Terra asked biting down on her thumb.
"I used all four tests and here's the results…" Aelita drifted away like she'd seen a ghost.