Best Friends with Benefits
Chapter 10
by: Iggy
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"What did you say?" I ask for her to repeat herself.
"I'm pregnant!" She exclaimed, bursting into more tears.
I felt myself filled with panic. "You're pregnant and you have been drinking? Are you crazy?"
"I don't know anymore!" She said breaking down even more. "I don't even know whose child it is!"
I had a feeling that from here on, things were going to get a whole lot harder...
"Amu..." I say through a cracked voice.
Amu was crying into my pillow and it seemed like she would never stop crying.
"Amu, I need you to calm down..." I say to her, resting a hand on her shoulder. I waited until her sobs came to a hault and she removed her face from my pillow to turn towards me and reveal her runny nose and rosy cheeks. Although her sobs stopped, tears still ran down the side of her face and onto the sheets. I grabbed a tissue and wiped her tears from her face and then her nose, smiling at her.
Amu sniffed loudly and then gave me a small smile, but her eyes still held sadness and freight. "I... I don't know what I am going to do Ikuto... I can't raise a kid, I don't know how to, I'm not ready..."
"Amu, I am your best friend, and no matter whose child it is, I will be here to help you raise it, weither Tadase will or not." I told her reassuringly. I took her petite hands in mine and ran my thumbs over her knuckles.
Amu surprised me and kissed me on the lips, and for the first time in our relationship, I felt my chest tighten and my stomach twist into knots. Instead of feeling sexual feelings alone, I felt something more, something bigger. I kissed her back and I noticed how warm and soft her lips were. She pulled back and then got off the bed and took a big breath before releasing it. "I have to tell Tadase... I just don't know how to tell him..."
"Tell him the truth. How you are pregnant, but you aren't sure if it his child or not. If he really loves you then he will be there for you." I said wrapping my arms around her waist.
"Easier said than done..." Amu said staring at the ground in thought.
I turned her so that she was facing me. "I'll come with you, like I said, I'll be here for you."
So we end up going over to Tadase's place together and I find myself sitting down next to Amu on a couch with Tadase sitting across from us.
"What did you want to tell me that was so important that you had to bring him here?" Tadase asked, stressing "him."
Amu looked worried, but I placed a hand of reassurance on her shoulder. Tadase noticed the hand and I quickly took it away. "Tadase, I'm... Pregnant..." She said looking at the ground, unable to see Tadase's facial expression.
"..." Tadase's face was shocked it took him a while to find the words to say. "Is it... mine?"
Amu's face held shame. "I don't... know..."
The room was awkwardly quiet for a while before Tadase stood up and pointed to the door. "Please leave... I have to think..."
Amu and I got up and left, heading back to my appartment.
We sat in front of the tv in silence, wrapped in a warm blanket while drinking some hot tea.
"I think it went better than we expected." I say breaking the silence.
Amu nodded her head slowly, but continued to watch the tv.
All of a sudden the phone rings, and I get up and answer it. "Hello?" My eyes widen from the news. "Okay, I'll be right there."
Amu turned to me curiously.
"Its Yoru, he ran away from the day care." I say, putting on my jacket and shoes before heading out the door.
It was getting colder outside, the sun was beginning to set and soon it would be harder to spot any sign of Yoru.
"Yoru!" I call out of my car window as I slowly cruise the near by neighborhood.
I spend over an hour looking for him in my car, before the sun finally sets, that was when I decided to go by foot. I grabbed the flashlight out of my car's glove apartment and then lock the car. I start to run, my flashlight scanning the area as I ran. "Yoru! Where are you?" I call looking for him.
"Ikuto!" I hear a small voice call in the distance.
I head towards the voice, sprinting towards it. "Yoru?" I stop where I thought I heard the voice and look around for any sign of the small boy.
"Ikuto!" Yoru called, his voice clear this time.
I finally spot him in a ditch when my flashlight shone on his pale skin. I ran over to him and jumped into the ditch hugging him. "God, you had me worried." I say in a stern tone.
"I'm sorry... Its just when I heard that my mom was going to be late again, I ran away..." He said bursting into tears. "My mom does not love me!"
I pet his hair and try to calm him down. "No your mother does love you, she is just very sick in the head and can't take care of you..." I say assuringly.
"I don't want to go back to her!" He sobbed.
... "Yoru, would you like to live with me?" I asked.
Yoru's eyes grew wide. "Are you serious?" I nod my head yes. Yoru hugs me tightly. "Yes!"
I walk into my appartment to find Amu with a worried expression. She takes Yoru from my arms and places him on the couch before covering him with blankets.
"I'm going to go to court to get him taken away from his mother." I told Amu with determination.
Iggy: Yay! Chapter 10 is up! Review! I'll update when I recieve 220 reviews!