Chapter 20: Liar! Liar!

(Once again, I am apologized for the lateness of this chapter. It has been a couple of months eh? I was almost afraid I'd have to put this story on HIATUS because I had temporarily misplaced the only copy of this story. But no worries, everything is back to normal, and hopefully I can get on with the story).

Riku's eyes widened.

Had Sora just said what he thought he said?

"She said I was under a lot of stress and I haven't been taking care of myself like I should have been," Sora said as he felt the tears running down his cheeks.

Riku remained silent.

"I-It wasn't meant to be," Sora muttered.

Riku opened his mouth to speak, but couldn't find the right words to say.

"I'm sorry," he said softly.

"It's no one's fault Riku. Things like this happen every day," he said plainly.

Riku fell to his knees, hugging Sora by the waist.

"I'm going to make this up to you."

Sora wiped his tears and pulled away from Riku.

"Mhmm, especially what you ditched me to do tonight. I know where you were and who you were with."

"Sora right now isn't the time to discuss this, you're grieving and-"

"Nothing is wrong with me," he said a little too calmly.

"How could you say that? You just—"

"Lied," Sora interrupted.

Riku looked up.

"What are you saying?"

"I'm saying that everything is fine and you're overreacting."

"So the contractions, the pains…they were all fake?"

"No, I really did have pains so Axel brought me here. He told me everything that happened and I decided a little payback was in order."

"So how did you-"

"I told you Riku, drama club was gonna pay off someday, and this just happened to be opportunity to use it."

"That's not funny Sora. I was really worried about you."

"You weren't worried when you decided to leave me for Sai'x tonight, now were you?"

"I didn't know what they were planning Sora."

"It doesn't matter Riku. Point is, you've always found a way to weasel out of taking responsibility and tonight proved it. You'll never change your ways and I'm not so sure if that's the best thing with my having this baby and all."

"What are you saying?"

"I'm saying that we need to sit down and really talk about all this. No jokes, no arguing, just a serious heart to heart talk. Because when times comes for me to pop this thing out, I need to know that you're supporting me 100%."

"This was not the way to go. I thought you really miscarriaged."

"At first, I didn't think it would be right to do it. But when I thought it over, I realized if we keep going down this road, something like that could really happen."

Riku stormed out of the room.

"Ehh he'll get over it, "Sora said with a smirk.

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Sorry for the short chapter, but a lot has been going on—and I've been a little lazy. Stay tuned…for the next chapter: "A Woman's Touch"

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