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Running Blind

Chapter 14 – Live Through This

November 12, 2041- The Yamazaki's Residence- countryside

Priss looked over at her girlfriend in concern. She noticed that Linna was pale and trembling, as she sat beside her in the moving van. The singer sighed, as she nervously tapped her fingers against the steering wheel and pulled into the driveway of the Yamazaki's home.

She wondered if they were doing the right thing by confronting Linna's parents without calling them. Their daughter had tried to get in touch with them every week, but they would never answer the phone or respond to her emails and letters. Priss dreaded her girlfriend breaking the news of the pregnancy to them, especially after the way Masaki had reacted to it. The timing just seemed wrong...

The singer reached over and placed her hand on her girlfriend's."Are you sure you want to go through with this? We don't have to tell them until after the baby is born." she suggested softly.

Linna looked up at her sadly. "I know, but I feel I have to tell them now. I feel I owe them the knowledge of knowing they have a grandchild on the way." she explained.

"But how will they accept it? They'll want you to marry Misaki, but he's already married! You know they don't accept our relationship and they'll never approve of us together!" Priss said hotly, as she tightened her grip on her girlfriend's hand.

"Please calm down." Linna pleaded to her softly. "You're hurting me.."

Priss immediately loosened her grip. She looked closely at Linna's hand, inspecting it for any signs of damage, then tenderly kissed it. "I'm sorry. I just think we should go back to Tokyo..." she sighed.

"I'm sorry Priss, ...but I feel that I must do this. They are still my parents...maybe they will come to accept me for who I am. It's a matter of honor, I guess." Linna said softly, as she hung her head and looked down.

The singer embraced her lover reassuringly. She knew her girlfriend had some old fashioned values despite the nature of their relationship. Linna was a very strong willed woman and Priss admired that quality in her. It was the very thing that had attracted her to the country girl in the first place.

"Well..since you feel so strongly about this, and since I can't change your mind, then I'll be by your side whether they approve or not." Priss told her.

"I know, and I'm glad I have you here with me to face them." Linna replied softly, as she buried her head against the singer's neck.

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Linna's hand shook as she reached out and knocked on her parent's door. Priss was tapping her foot next to her nervously. Both women were dreading this visit.

Mrs. Yamazaki opened the door with a smile on her face. It faded as soon as she realized it was her daughter and her girlfriend. Her face turned cold.

"Linna, what brings you here?" she asked. As usual, she ignored Priss.

"Mother, may we come in?" her daughter asked hesitantly, as she tried to keep her voice from trembling.

Suddenly Mr. Yamazaki came up behind his wife. He looked over at the two women.

"Oh, so you've come back! You and..." he squinted over at Priss. "..that ratty lounge singer?" he remarked callously.

Priss sighed. (What was wrong with people in this town?) she thought to herself. "My name is Priss, and I'm a rock singer-NOT a ratty lounge singer!" she reminded him harshly, as she tried to keep her temper.

Linna sighed. (Things weren't going well...) she thought.

"Daddy, can we please come in?" she asked desperately.

"Dear, let the girls in." her dad instructed her mother, who looked unhappy as she moved away from the door to let the women pass. They all moved into the sitting room and the two women sat on the love seat together but at a reasonable distance apart. Linna's parents took their place on the sofa.

Mrs. Yamazaki eyed the women critically. "Linna, you look like you are getting fat. If I were you, I'd go on a diet." she told her daughter coldly.

Her dad laughed. "Now, c'mon dear, at least she doesn't look near death like her lounge singer friend here..."

Priss could feel her blood rise at the insensitive comments. (No wonder Linna had wanted to leave home to begin with.. She must have had it hard growing up with these two as parents!) she thought angrily.

"Well, there is a reason that I've gained weight. I...I'm almost four months pregnant." Linna told her parents nervously, as she stood up and rubbed her growing belly.

"What!? Who is the father? When did this happen? I thought you were with this singer here?" her mother asked loudly as she jumped up to confront her daughter.

"Pregnant? By whom?" Mr. Yamazaki asked Priss, as he looked her up and down. "You're not a man by chance? One of those drag queens?"

"Why does everyone keep thinking I'm a man? I don't look like a man, do I?" she asked him in annoyance.

Linna looked over at her father. "Please stop, daddy!" she begged, as she turned and gave her girlfriend a look; silently telling her to keep her temper.

"Well then, who is the father of your child?" her mother asked her.

"Masaki. He is the father of my baby, but ..." she began.

"Finally! Someone we would be proud to have as a son- in -law! You will move home immediately and we'll plan the wedding! I knew this infatuation with this woman here was just a phase!" Mrs. Yamazaki said in relief.

"Mother, Masaki is already married! He was married last month and has twins on the way! Besides, I don't want to move back home and I'm not going to! I know you don't want to hear this, but I love Priss!" Linna said firmly as she pointed at the singer who had sat back down on the love seat.

"She's not a phase in my life-she is my life!" Linna cried out to her parents who stared at her in shocked silence. Priss blinked back the tears that were burning behind her eyes. She realized that no one would ever love her as much as the pregnant woman before her did.

Linna's mom confronted her daughter. "How can you say that? How can you feel that way about another woman? It's wrong! We taught you better than that and this is how you repay us? By having an illegitimate child and becoming a sick pervert with the likes of her? You have disgraced the entire family!" her mother yelled angrily, as she slapped her daughter hard across the face.

Both Priss and Mr. Yamazaki jumped up. The singer ran over to Linna who was crying and holding the side of her face. "Why did you do that? She's pregnant!" Priss yelled over to Mrs. Yamazaki. She felt like punching the woman! How dare she hurt Linna!

Mr. Yamazaki went to his wife. "There was no need for that! You didn't have to hit her!" he told her angrily.

Mrs. Yamazaki looked angrily over at the two young women. "I'm not going to let your baby grow up in a sick environment with you two as parents! I'll fight for custody first! My only grandchild! How could you disapoint me this way, daughter?" she screamed.

Linna burst into tears, as her face burned with shame and from the sting of the slap her mother had given her. Then, she began to feel lightheaded and dizzy, and felt a pain in her side. It was so sharp that it made her gasp.

"Linna!." she remembered Priss yelling before everything went black...

Chapter 15-

A/N- To the brave soul's who read this and enjoy it, thank you! I just want to say I realize that my BGC2040 stories have absolutely no boomer action, hardsuits or excitement. I am very sorry to the BGC fans who I have disappointed by not having these things in my stories.

Also Linna's parents and Misaki are OOC. They seemed nice in the series, but I made them jerks here. I've tried to keep Linna and Priss in character; but I realize the fact they are even together romantically makes them OOC. But I love this pairing and had to write my own Priss/Linna story.

I don't have a beta reader and am still learning to write narritively. I'm aware that I need a lot of improvement. Helpful feedback and concrit is appreciated. I plan to keep on writing so please give me advice so I can learn from my mistakes. And if you actually like my story, please let me know! Thanks!