The insanity of his almost ex-wife standing on his doorway sobered him up rather fast. As far as he knew she had left to her new job on the other side of the world. He didn't know how long he stared at her, but she was the one that broke the silence, "can I come in?"
The fact that she would ask when she still had her own key was only reminder of the papers currently sitting on their- his, kitchen table. He nodded at her, a silent invitation. Once inside he took note of how she was holding her hand to her chest, of the way she was biting her lip. Clearly, she was nervous, but he was never one to push her out of her comfort zone, so he would give her the time she needed. "How have you been?"
Sakura was clearly stalling, but he decided to humor her, "divorced at twenty-two, how do you think?"
She didn't look at him as she asked, "you signed the papers already?"
"Did you come here to collect them personally? Couldn't wait for your freedom?" She visibly flinched at his words. He never liked seeing her look small though, not someone like Sakura, softer he added "no, I haven't signed them yet." Sasuke sighed, "why are you here? Did you forget something?"
She tensed up at his question, but she moved her hands down. "I know I asked for the divorce suddenly, and that it may have come out of nowhere for you-"
"You are finally going to tell me why you wanted a divorce? You know what? I don't care anymore." he knew that was the alcohol talking, because he did care, he cared way too much. Being aware that the alcohol was making him brave didn't end its effectiveness however, before she could speak he went to get the papers out of the envelope, his heart in his throat, yelling at him to stop. To get an answer out of Sakura, whatever it was that he had done he would fix it. It was also telling him that he gave her everything, and she had left, and that hurt a lot less to listen to.
He was about to reach for a pen when Sakura's words stopped him, "I'm pregnant." Sasuke almost fell flat on the floor at her words, "I found out today." When seconds passed and he remained silent she added," about three months pregnant. I was late and I didn't think anything of it because you know how irregular my cycle is, and with all the stress." Again, Sakura left him speechless, the silence in the room was deafening, "say something."
"What does it mean?" What does it mean for us?
A/N: one of the break up AUs I promised. This would involve a lot of flashbacks as the pregnancy progresses that would start with their engagement.
Other updates, for those who do not know (sorry for the late announcement) Unexpected is out in the world all alone. They grow us so fast, excuse the wording but it kind of felt like that. Beginnings is not that popular, so working a story out of here, really makes me feel like the story graduated and it is off to college. Its doing good so far, way better than I expected, its success was unexpected (bad joke I apologize but I couldn't resist).
Will be updating something new in Beginnings soon, a third part for Cursed, I already have it written I just do not want to update it within the same day... Also I am hoping to post some info. on Timely soon, not anything bad, its just been so long since I updated that I feel like I owe and explanation to those who do follow Timely, so if you do see an update on Timely, it will be the announcement no an actual new chapter. Which sucks cause I told myself I would never be one of those authors that gets their readers hopes up in that way. Also, sorry that the author's note is about as long as the update.