Mockingbird
Chapter Two
"She's got something for you, Kai," Tyson whispered in his ear.
Kenny interrupted. "Kai's got something for her."
"Well, that's true." Tyson relaxed, taking a drink from his beer. "They've been flirting all night."
Kai cradled his son, smiling down at him. He didn't know why he was smiling. His baby was causing him so much pain. His baby didn't love him.
"You've got something in your eye." Kai smirked and leant forward.
"Oh really, Hiwatari?"
His baby shouldn't be here. He was an accident.
She pressed her rose lips against Kai's, smothering him in drunken love. Kai kissed her back, taking off his jacket.
It all happened so fast. In the space of one night, and due to a drunken fling, Kai Hiwatari became a father.
It was the shock of his life.
"Kai, I can't give this kid a good home. I don't even want to look at it. You're the dad. Can't you do something?" she asked.
He agreed to help her out, for the sake of the baby, but even Kai didn't want him. His grandfather was disgusted with him for such a vile sin. His neighbours refused to look at them together. Kai was without a social life, thanks to the little bundle.
Kai nuzzled the little baby in his arms and recalled something a close friend had said.
"Que sera sera. What has happened, has happened. And what will be, will be. You need to live with it."
He put the baby to bed, and left for his own, a new hope burning in his heart.