Thanks for the reviews! I got major writer's block while typing this so I was going to call this chapter "Little Chit-Chat" but then I got this awesome idea so…it's not called that.
"SURPRISE!"
Mia looked around the room happily. A couple of weeks ago she told Lauren she wanted a surprise baby shower and Lauren made sure she got it. She saw food, gifts wrapped in pink, all of her girlfriends, mother, guy friends (who weren't staying), and the same crib she saw at the store with Kevin.
"A crib?" Mia gasped. "Who got me this?"
"That would be me." Terry said from behind Emily.
"Double surprise!" Emily shouted and pushed Terry in front of her so Mia could tackle him in loving hugs and kisses. She was the one to search for Terry's number and call him and force him to come to his sister's first baby shower. As a younger sibling herself, the moment between the wind siblings was very touching to her.
"Congratulations Sis." Terry tells Mia once she stops embracing him. "I know this is what you've always wanted."
"How did you get my brother's phone number?" Mia asks Emily later during the shower.
"I just stole your cell phone when you weren't looking." Emily shrugged like it was nothing, consumed in her cupcake. "It's very easy to take someone's phone when they don't remember to pick up their purse at a bridal shop."
Mia rolled her eyes. Her mind was on her little slip up that she forgot about her purse when she went to use the restroom. "Well, thanks anyways. Speaking of bridal shops, have you and Mike decided on a date for the wedding? I don't want to go down the aisle looking past my due date."
"It's going to be on the twentieth of March, the first day of spring." Emily confirmed. "It will be a garden wedding with many flowers and the reception will be outside too so I'm hoping for weather with the sun out."
"You just had to be the one in this generation of samurai to get the Earth powers." Serena said, shaking her head. "I'm buying a ton of sun screen."
"I think it's a lovely idea." Mia's mother, Erika added to the wedding talk. "When Kevin's father had his wedding, it was on a beach. Mike's father made sure he had his wedding in the forest before Breaking Dawn did." Erika laughed at the different samurai weddings she went to when she was still an active ranger. "I'm glad you chose a garden. The previous forest wedding had too much bugs."
"I wonder what it's like to be a samurai…" Catherine thought out loud. When Ji told her he was the samurai's mentor, it was a confusing conversation but she still accepted it.
Lauren chuckled at her mother figure. "Trust me, symbol power is crazy. We're the only generation that found a way to keep our powers without our morphers but that doesn't matter right now." Lauren jumped out her seat, grabbed a pink bag, and gave it to Mia. "You haven't opened my present yet."
Mia took the gift gladly. She searched through the bag and got out a mini samurai training costume with matching black sneakers. "Aw! I love the pink and blue touch."
"Since she's both, I figured I would mix the two colors."
"It's cute. Thanks, I should get Kevin to put these in the car." Mia got up on wobbly feet. Lauren and Emily gave her a scared look. "I'm fine, geez, not you too." Mia assured them just as her vision got blurry and she fainted.
"Go get Ji." Catherine told Lauren panicked. Lauren didn't even hear Catherine. She was already running to the kitchen.
"Ji!" Lauren screamed from the hallway.
"What is it Lauren?" Ji answered. It sounded important. Lauren wouldn't have screamed for him like that if it wasn't.
Lauren dragged him down the hallway to the baby shower. "Hurry, Mia just fainted a while ago."
The other samurai men and Cody were talking outside by the grill in all smiles until they heard noise coming from inside the house.
"What are the girls doing that's so loud?" Antonio gave them a questioning look. "It doesn't sound too good."
Almost right on cue, Lauren ran outside out of breath. Running around the Shiba House is not an easy task. Cody gave her a comforting hug. "What's going on? Isn't the baby shower okay?"
Lauren shook her head. She wanted to cry but she tried to keep her posture. She stared at all the boys, landing her attention on Kevin and Terry. "Mia's not doing well. She just fainted."
"She what?" Terry shouted. He and the others got to the shower, to see Emily playing with her fingers nervously. "Where's Mia?"
"She's in the room next to the dojo." Emily told him."Be quiet though, Ji is helping her." Terry nodded.
Mike walked over to his fiancée and put his arms around her. He knew how much this situation terrified Emily. If this is how Mia's pregnancy is going to go then Emily doesn't want a single dose of it. Mike wanted to have children with Emily except he had to admit Mia fainting didn't make it any better. Mike just sighed and kissed Emily.
"It's okay, everything is going to be okay." Mike took her in his arms.
"Shouldn't you guys be taking her to the hospital?" Cody asked Lauren on the porch. Lauren shook her head in response. It was getting dark out. The drama that took place a couple hours ago began to calm. Lauren still didn't want to go back inside the house. "Why not? It would make things less difficult for your old man there."
"Ji can handle it." Lauren picked on the grass by her feet. "He's trained in medicine. Catherine is too." She continued to pick on the grass, deep in thought. She wish she could tell Cody about her secret samurai life. It would be simpler to explain Mia's condition to him.
"I still think you should bring her to the hospital." Lauren didn't respond. "I'm a good listener. You can tell me anything." Lauren pulled on the grass harder and Cody took her hand to make her stop. "What did the poor grass do to you?"
"Stop, I'm not in the mood to talk Cody!" Lauren shouted angrily. She ripped her hand away from Cody. Her hands caught on fire through symbol power and burned him. "I'm so sorry! Let me get you some ice!" Lauren went into the house to get a bag of ice for Cody's burnt hand. She didn't mean to burn him. She got so mad she couldn't control her powers. She once burned Jayden. It didn't affect him though because he's a fire samurai too. So many things were going through her head. What was Cody thinking? His girlfriend just made fire appear out of nowhere.
Lauren walked back outside and cooled Cody hand with the bag. Cody flinched. "Is it bad? I'm so, so sorry I took my anger out on you."
Cody took the bag of ice and stared at Lauren. If looks could kill, Lauren would be long gone. "What just happened? You made fire come out of your hands. Do you take magic at school too?"
"Please don't be mad." Lauren held her head in her arms. "I haven't been completely honest with you…"
"What do you mean? I thought we told each other everything."
"…I'm the female red ranger." Lauren whispered. "Jayden is also the red ranger. Mia is pink, Kevin is blue, Emily is yellow, Mike is green, and Antonio is gold. We're the Power Rangers. Ji is our mentor."
"You're the what? Why didn't you tell me Lauren?"
"I couldn't! I never wanted to keep it from you!"
Cody got up and threw the ice bag on her lap. "Yeah? Well, you did keep it from me! Is it because you couldn't trust me to keep your secret?"
"No, it's not because of that…I…I don't… don't know." Lauren stuttered.
"Wow, my own girlfriend doesn't trust me." Cody got his car keys. "I'm leaving."
"No! Please don't leave Cody!" Lauren pleaded to him with tears in her eyes. "Don't leave!" Cody refused to listen to her. He got into his vehicle and drove off.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" Lauren let out a piercing scream. The fire started to steam out of her palms again. Kevin walked out to check on whoever screamed. He was surprise to see the grass next to Lauren on fire. He used symbol power and sprayed the grass and Lauren's hands with water. "What are you doing here? Doesn't Mia need you?"
"Mia's resting right now." Kevin shook his head. "I'm more concerned about you. Where's Cody?"
"I think he just broke up with me…"
Woo! This chapter was challenging! I hope you liked it. If you didn't, please review and tell me how I can improve! :)