"What are you smiling at?" Cody could see his girlfriend spying at him by the door as he put up an It's A Girl banner on the ceiling. Lauren and Cody have been dating for a while so it's only natural that they made their relationship official. Lauren invited him to the surprise baby shower they were throwing for Mia so he could get to know her family better.
"Nothing…" Lauren replied back. Cody just chuckled. "Thanks for helping with the decorations by the way. This place looks really great."
"No problem, just being a gentleman for your special friend. You all seem to protect her a lot. Why is that anyways?"
"We're family, it's what we do. Her pregnancy hasn't been going too well either so we're scared for her. We've already been through so much together. We don't want to see anything bad happen to her."
"I think you guys have a nice family bond. It's very heartwarming to watch. I wish my family was like that."
Ding-Dong!
"I'll get it." Lauren went to get the door. She wondered who would be there because all of the samurais including Catherine have a key but she answered the door anyways thinking they may have forgotten it. To her surprise, a young Asian that didn't look any older than twenty was standing in front of her. "Hello?"
"Hey, I'm Terry." Terry extended his right hand to shake hers. "You must be Lauren. I've heard so much about you." Lauren gave him a confused look. "I'm Mia's brother."
"Oh, come in. We're setting up the party right now." Lauren welcomed him in. She didn't know Terry or even knew Mia had a younger brother. She wasn't there at the time. Apparently she and Jayden and the Earth sisters weren't the only ones with siblings.
"I'm super excited my sister is having a baby. She's going to be an excellent mother."
"I'm sure you are. You get to be an excellent uncle." Lauren gave him a smile until she saw Emily searching through the samurai books. She didn't want Mia's younger brother knowing his sister might not even make it through birth. She already told Emily and Serena against Ji's wishes. "Um, can you go help Emily's sister, Serena with the cake? I need to check up on Emily. Wedding jitters, you know?"
"Yeah, I'll give you ladies some privacy."
"Find anything yet?" Lauren asked the yellow samurai.
Emily screamed and dropped the book in her hand. "Lauren, I thought you were Mia for a second!"
"Sorry I startled you. How is the book search going?" Lauren handed her back the book. Mia's health was really starting to worry Emily and Lauren. Nothing too serious has happened yet. They still couldn't take that for granted. Mia insisted she's feeling well but Kevin would differ. Kevin has been telling them that Mia comes home weaker than usual.
"I can't find anything!" Emily threw the book, almost hitting Ji in the head. "My bad, I didn't see you there!"
"It's alright Emily." Ji took a glance at the title of the book; Healing Symbol Power. "What are you girls doing with this book? Do you know how dangerous healing power is? It could kill you in minutes!"
"We just want to help Mia." Lauren whispered.
Ji sighed. They weren't making this any easier for him. He cared a lot about Mia too. She did a mighty good job as the pink samurai. She also became a very good friend outside of the pink spandex too. Ji knew she wanted the average family life with kids and magnets on the fridge. Her sudden pregnancy with a water baby did not help that dream come true.
"Sit down and listen." Ji commanded them. "We don't know what's going to happen to Mia because previous rangers before you never…mated, right?" Lauren and Emily nodded their heads. "It is said that there is a rumor from many years ago that two of the samurais at the time got together and the female of course got pregnant. She almost died when she started to lean toward her seventh month. Her spouse and the other rangers used a black flower to save her. The black flower is in the forest beyond the Shiba House somewhere. No one knows where it is. It's impossible to find." Ji flipped through the book for a certain page and showed the girls. "Hope it not but if Mia doesn't survive, I will allow both of you to use this healing symbol."
"I guess we have some practicing to do then." Lauren said.
"Not now, today you will enjoy Mia's baby shower. Understood?"
Lauren and Emily frowned but accepted the circumstances.
"Kevin, I'm okay!" Mia tried to convince Kevin she could get in the car herself but he ignored her. He kept on saying how she shouldn't be pushing herself and it was getting on her nerves and making her very frustrated. Once Kevin got Mia in her seat with a fight, he got into the driver's seat and began to make his way to the Shiba House. Mia noticed he wasn't going home. "You missed the turn home."
"I know." Kevin responded.
"I don't feel like going over Jayden's house today. I'm tired."
"Have some water." Kevin handed her a large container with water. "It will make you feel better."
Mia stared at the size of the bottle in shock. "You can't be serious. Kevin, what are you doing with so much water? You work at the pool."
"You can never have too much water. At least drink some…for the baby" Kevin didn't want to use the baby as an excuse but he needed her to drink more water to keep up with the baby's strength.
Mia rolled her eyes and drank the water. It makes her feel better even though she didn't know why. "I miss Terry." She said randomly. Her brother has been on her mind lately. Terry has been so busy with medical school that he doesn't visit Mia often anymore.
"You'll see Terry soon."
"You always say that."
"I mean it this time."