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Chapter 10: Dealing with clue-less husbands and skanks
"You look like crap." Sango said the next day when I met her in front of the main building. She held up a mirror and I uninterestedly peered into it. I looked like a friggin zombie; I had slightly purple shadows under my eyes, I looked was unusually pale and my hair was frizzy. I shrugged and pulled my hair into a ponytail. I spent the night on my mom's couch watching late night infomercials. My doctor told me I couldn't sleep for 24 hours because of my concussion; people that fell asleep with concussions usually didn't wake up. Ever. . . And that wasn't something I was too eager to test.
"Will you make it through class?" Sango asked, concern in her voice.
I smiled, trying to show her that I was perfectly okay, even if I did look gross. "I sure hope so."I said following her into the classroom.
Common misconception: morning sickness only occurs in the morning. I wish somebody would've told me this before I had to find out on my own. I went to a little restaurant on campus -totally avoiding the spot that Inuyasha and I had chosen as out spot to meet up for lunch- and went inside to get something to eat. The first thing I noticed was how weird the place smelled. There were new things on the menu and I just figured that it was the spices they used to cook them that made the strange smells. So I ordered my favorite meal and eagerly started to eat it but found myself puking up my guts after a few bites. After that, anytime I got within smelling distance of food a wave of nausea rolled through my body and I had to run for the hills. Well hell, now I couldn't eat or sleep! Today was just not my day.
My last class of the day was journalism, the one class that I had Takeshi for. He hadn't been in a while but with the way things were going today I wasn't willing to take any chances. I decided that it would probably be best for me to go home and rest for a little bit. Plus, I needed to fix myself up—like a lot—today was my first day of work and I was sure that my boss would appreciate me looking at least half alive and semi peppy to be there. So I picked up my bag and headed for my car. I was totally surprised when someone ran up behind me and grabbed my hand. I braced myself and turned with a smart comment on my tongue half expecting to see, well I don't know exactly who I expected to see but the point is, I was totally ready for anything until I found myself staring into familiar golden eyes. Inuyasha didn't look any better than I did; which made me feel good that he was suffering, but sad at the same time. I didn't want to see him looking like everything had just been pulled out from under him anymore than I was sure he wanted to see me looking the way I was at the moment. For a moment I couldn't seem to do anything but stare at him.
"Kagome, what's wrong? You don't look well." Inuyasha began to pull me towards him and I let him. I wanted to be back in my husband's arms more than anything; to curl up and fall asleep and let him take care of me. "Why did you leave last night?" Suddenly, those words broke me out of my trance. I could feel anger flush through my body and I knew that my face was turning red.
"You don't know why I left?"
"No, I—I don't understand."
"You mean to tell me. . . You know what? I have nothing to say to you." I said pulling my hand from his grasp and turning back in the direction of my car.
"Kagome—Kagome please!"
I ignored Inuyasha's voice and speed walked to my car and locked the door once I was inside leaving Inuyasha on the outside begging for me to listen to him.
I had a lot of emotions boiling up inside me and it made me feel like I was suffocating. I was sad that things were so strained between Inuyasha and me, but then I was angry because he kept letting Leila get between us, and now he claimed to not know why I was mad at him. How dense could the man be? And I was even angrier because I couldn't tell him about the best thing that ever happened to us, couldn't tell him that I was pregnant with his child, our child. Our baby. I kept thinking about how much I wanted to share this with him, how I wanted him to know that we had created something beautiful together. I was feeling so amazed, and freaked out and tired but happy all at once and Inuyasha had no idea that our child even existed and it drove me nuts. He should know this, needed to know this but I couldn't bring myself to talk about it under these circumstances. I felt like I was going to burst. I just couldn't take it anymore! This is not how I wanted things to be.
"Go away!" I screamed through the window at Inuyasha before putting my head against the steering wheel and taking a few breaths. "I'm okay, I'm okay." I said to myself in a small voice before turning on the car and pulling out of the parking lot, praying that I would make it through the rest of the day. I figured that might not happen as the tears slipped down my cheeks.
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I didn't make it home until later that night. I kicked off my shoes and collapsed onto my bed. I was deathly tired, but I was feeling a lot better now. My first day of work went well; a big thing considering how my day had started off. The girl I worked with was cool. She had broken me out of my shyness that I had felt by cracking jokes and continuously talking to me. Not only that but she helped me out anytime I had a problem and just seemed generally happy to work with me. I chuckled slightly. I was actually looking forward to going to work tomorrow.
School? Well, that was something else. After what had happened, I wanted to just take a break and definitely avoid Inuyasha at all costs. I sighed as my stomach rumbled and went downstairs. My mom was sitting on the couch in the living room drinking a glass of tea.
"Hello Kagome, how are you?" She smiled, sipping a bit of her tea.
"Ok, I guess. I'm hungry, but I spent all of today throwing up so I'm kinda afraid to eat." I crossed my arms over my chest.
"Aw, you poor thing, I know just how that feels. I'll make you something that won't make you feel sick and you can tell me about your day, ok honey?" She stood up and placed a kiss on my forehead like she used when I was little.
"Sure," I said hesitantly following her into the kitchen while giving her a recap of my day, leaving out most of the details. No need to make her depressed too. She set a bowl of soup with lots of diced vegetables in front of me. I looked up at her quizzically.
"Try it." She smiled, nudging the bowl closer to me. I hesitantly took up a spoonful, then another. I waited for fifteen minutes and when nothing happened I finished the soup.
"Mom, that was delicious." I said, licking the spoon clean. I wanted more, a lot more but I wanted to wait. I still didn't trust my stomach to hold what I had eaten. So mom told me about her day and I ate another small bowl before going upstairs to my room. It felt like it hadn't been a long time since I had called this place my room and in reality, it wasn't. I stared at the empty pillow covered bed and frowned a little before climbing in and falling into a deep, long-needed sleep.
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I felt like a refugee, and escaped prisoner of war, a runaway convict or something to that effect. Inuyasha had been waiting for me after all of my classes and I'd been finding alternate exits to leave from just so I wouldn't have to face him. I know this sounds really cowardly, but I honestly just didn't want to risk running into him and having to try to ignore him all the way to another class. I didn't want to make a scene and have the whole school know my problems. I mean, staying at my mom's house was embarrassing enough.
I peeked out of the window of the art building, only to see that Inuyasha was still standing on the grass in front of the building. The art building was the smallest on campus; it had only one floor and about eight studios. The only door in the building would lead me out to where Inuyasha was. I was trapped and I bet he knew it too. He waited outside for a few minutes more until he asked one of my classmates something and they nodded. He started walking towards the building. Crap! All of the other studios were locked except mine! There was no way I was about to go in there. The front door began to open and I panicked and ducked inside the bathroom. My heart was racing.
This is really stupid. I thought to myself but that didn't stop me from running out of the building the first second the coast was clear.
I was halfway to my car when I ran smack into someone and my stuff fell onto the floor. "Oh gosh I'm so sor-" I looked up to see who I'd run into and shut my mouth when I did.
"You know, if you keep doing this Inuyasha might actually start to believe that you want to hurt me."
"Shut up, skank." I didn't even bother calling her by her name. I bent down to pick up my stuff that obviously she wasn't going to try to help with.
"Let's not start with the hostilities so soon. Oh and next to me you decide to hit me, do me a favor and not aim for my face." Leila pushed back her bangs to reveal a purplish-blue bruise around her eye. Had I really hit her hard enough to do that? Ha! Guess I didn't know my own strength.
"Well if you'd leave my husband alone you wouldn't have to worry about it." Leila let out a short laugh.
"You honestly think I want Inuyasha?" She snorted. "You're so clueless. I don't even find him attractive." She casually looked at her nails. "I mean really, the freak has silver hair and freakish golden eyes. That's not natural. Why would you marry him, and risk passing on genes like that?" I instinctively wrapped my arms around my torso.
"Don't you dare talk about my husband that way." I hissed, my hands fisted at my sides. I knew Inuyasha hated being called that. A freak. "Just leave us alone, because you're really starting to piss me off and I'm not going to put up with it for much longer. You say you don't like Inuyasha? Then stay the hell away from him!" I walked up to her, pushing her with my index finger. "And believe me, the next time I hit you, you'll walk away with more than a black eye."
"Is that a threat?" She lightly mused, laughing.
"No, it's a promise."
Leila's eyes opened wide and a pitiful look came over her face. "Inuyasha, see? She still wants to hurt me!" Leila ran past me and towards Inuyasha who shook her off. I applauded that in my head, but only for a second.
"Kagome . . ."
I shook my head and walked away. This was going to be harder than I thought.
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