Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
Chapter 1
"We're in trouble, Ryleigh" Chazz muttered, climbing back into the car and hitting his head off the steering wheel in despair. "Timing belt's gone, I think. Set off by running over something that's burst the back tyre. We're not going anywhere."
The black haired boy put his girlfriend's silence down to her annoyance at their breakdown. He never thought that Ryleigh's lips were sealed to prevent the fatal words that could flow once those lips parted.
Sighing at the lack of reaction from the woman he loved so much, Chazz pulled out his expensive mobile phone - a brand new model worth a small fortune, sleek and shiny black - and his eyes widened as he realised that the situation could still get worse.
He fiddled around with the buttons. He turned the phone off and back on again. Nothing.
No signal.
"Ryleigh, lend me your phone. Mine's got no signal."
Wordlessly, the violet eyed girl pulled her phone, somewhat shakily, from her jeans pocket and thrust it into Chazz's waiting hands. She didn't dare open her mouth - she didn't want to tell him what she had realised was happening.
She was annoyed with the kid already - and he or she wasn't even born yet!
Of all the times to decide that it was time to come out, the child had to pick right now. Ryleigh was fully aware that the water she had felt running down her legs a short while earlier meant that her water had broke. It was time for the baby to be born.
And she wasn't ready.
When Ryleigh had pictured the birth of this child, she had envisioned a hospital room, white and pristine, and a soft bed with a fluffed pillow. She'd pictured doctors and nurses and a midwife, her husband holding her hand and shouting at the midwife while she zoned out.
Ryleigh had had several different premonitions about her pregnancy, and it seemed none of them had come to pass.
She had certainly never pictured giving birth in a car, in the middle of nowhere.
She knew that the efforts of her lover were futile. Her phone had no signal and there was nowhere within walking distance at the best of times, let alone when she was suffering contractions.
They really were stuck.
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Chazz looked over at Ryleigh with worry. He had just informed her that they'd have to get out and go for a long, long walk, to try and find somewhere that would help - to walk until they at least had a signal on their phones. He'd already tried walking up and down the road with their mobiles, and had got nothing that resembled a signal. They'd have to get moving.
But Ryleigh wasn't moving. The girl's face was hidden by the dark tendrils of her hair as she leaned over, whispering something under her breath, something Chazz couldn't make out.
"Ryleigh, stop it. We've got to get moving, and I'm not leaving you alone here!"
Chazz was beginning to get frustrated.
Ryleigh, on the other hand, was beginning to get plain desperate.
Pain had never agreed with her, on any level. She was not the 'suffer in silence' type of person, the type who could withstand a lot.
She was the girl who cried when a paper-cut stung, who tripped over her own two feet and clenched her eyes shut to halt the tears.
The early contractions were proving to be more painful than she had ever imagined they could be.
But as another one at last left her body, Ryleigh looked up at Chazz. The light was on in the front of the car, enabling them to see at least the dashboard and each other.
"I can't go anywhere" she whispered.
"Ryleigh …"
"Chazz" she hissed, pain lacing her tone though she tried to force it away. "Chazz, I can't. It's time."
"Yeah, I know" Chazz hissed back. "Time to move!"
"No! I mean it's time."
"Time for what?" the raven haired boy burst out, getting more and more irritated by the second.
"Chazz, you idiot" Ryleigh whispered, her voice loving despite the situation. "The baby's coming. It's time!"
Chazz Princeton - who would argue until the end that he was the strongest of the strong - could say or do nothing. Instead, he did what always brought shame to his face on awakening.
He fainted.
Please R&R