A/N: Feeling discouraged on my other story since I have like 30 hits on a chapter but then like 4 reviews. But it's okay sine I've been wanting to take a whack at this one since I watched a movie. Overdone idea, but with my unique twist (I guess).
Chapter One: Phone News
"Please…no…"
Worried.
No, that was an understatement. Frightened and anxious were more the words to describe the emotions running through the eighteen year old Tohru Honda. But as frightened and anxious as she was, there was a small emotion hiding behind the other two that, if she let herself admit to, would become too much for her to handle:
Shame.
Shame that she was watching the red second hand on her clock on the wall tick the time away in agony. She was sitting on her bed and waiting for some amount of time to pass; she was uncertain as to how much time, but knew that her timer would go off when it was ready. But the shame! The shame that she had to hide in her bedroom, and had to make the excuse that she was studying for her last high school exams just to be able to do this.
A sigh escaped her as she pulled on her on her skirt and sweater nervously, hoping and begging that her life could go back to normal after these agonizing minutes. She started to mentally debate whether or not the waiting was worse, or the purchasing of the product.
About three weeks before the present day, Tohru had been feeling quite ill and did not know what was wrong with her. Hatori had been called by one of the three worried men in the house and she was deemed a 'fever'. Relief hit her then, as she had suspected something else.
But then two weeks went by and she started to have the symptoms of what she had been fearing was wrong with her. And after that week had ended she had gone out to the local convenience store, saying she had to buy lotion, and purchased with high embarrassment three of the most humiliating and shameful products.
Ding!
Her brown eyes tore away from the wall clock and glued themselves to her night stand, staring at the source of her stress. With one shaky hand she reached out and grabbed the long white stick and then brought it close to her eyes to read the result in the white area:
Result: Little Pink Plus Sign.
"Oh…" She breathed quietly and then lowered her hand to her lap. So, she had been completely right in all her suspicions. From the morning sickness to her missed period, she had been so jittery and frantic that she forgot it took two to make the now blessed miracle.
I should tell them. She was of course thinking about her two best friends. The before shaky and now only trembling hand reached out and grabbed the cordless phone off of her night stand and she punched in the numbers to one of the two's house. After three rings, the misty voice answered.
"Hello, Hanajima residence."
"Hana-chan, it's me." Tohru responded as she sat on the end of her bed and looked out of the window, wishing she could just go outside and enjoy the bright and oddly sunny February winter day. "Can you three-way Uo-chan? I need to tell you both something.."
"Sure, Tohru-kun."
Hanajima's voice replied from the other line and Tohru waited patiently as she waited for her friend to click back on to the line. When she did, the phone rung three times and then the voice of her other best friend answered.
"Hello?"
"Good day, Arisa. It is I and Tohru-kun." Hana greeted the irritated voice of Uotani as Tohru remained silent.
"Oh, what's up?" Uo asked, dropping her irritation instantly.
Hanajima answered immediately. "Tohru says she has something to tell us. Right?" She directed the last word to the silent girl.
Tohru swallowed and then replied. "Um, yes. It's very important and…" She trailed off at the silence of her listening friends. She swallowed again, her throat dry in her nervousness and then said, "It's something that I'm afraid will anger or disappoint you both…or make you hate me."
"We could never hate you." Hana said soothingly. "What is it?"
"What would disappoint us?" Uo asked as she began to laugh lightly in amusement. "What'd you do, get knocked up?" She was totally joking, of course as she laughed again.
Oh, no.
Silence consumed the conversation as Uo stopped laughing and both girl's expected the nervous and frantic denying of their best friend. As no sound came from Tohru's line, Hanajima ventured in to the silence with words.
"Tohru," She began, a hint of nervousness in her voice. "Please tell me you dropped the phone or something."
Tohru sighed and replied. "No."
"Wait," Uo's voice spoke in disbelief. "I was totally kidding, you can't be…are you?"
Tohru nodded, then felt stupid knowing her friends could not see that and then responded. "Yes, I'm…pregnant."
The shame washed over her and threatened to drown her as her friends both stayed silent. Without meaning to or knowing what she was saying, Tohru began her frantic and panicky rambling.
"B-but I didn't know until right now, and I've suspected this for a few weeks but I didn't want to test-which I just did and it was positive. And now I have to figure out what to do what am I going to do? Oh you both probably-"
"Tohru, who-"
"-think that I'm so stupid and that I'm dirty and impure now what was I thinking?! I can't believe this I'm almost done with high school and what am I going to do be a mother how can I be so ignorant-"
"Tohru-kun, who is the-"
"-it's disgraceful I wanted to start a life with children later not now that I'm going to enter college! And how am I going to work when I have a kid at home to take care of and what about money and food and clothes and baby bottles and-"
"TOHRU!! STOP!" Uo screamed in to the phone, putting an immediate halt on the girl before she lost her voice from everything she had said in one breath.
Tohru took a deep breath and then listened as her friend grumbled something and then Hana spoke now that she could be heard.
"Tohru-kun," She said calmly. "Would you mind informing us as to who helped you to conceive this child?"
"Huh?" Tohru asked, so caught up in her emotions she failed to register Hana's question. "Could you repeat that pl-"
"Who's the father, Tohru?" Uo asked icily, ready to pound whoever it was who had deflowered her friend.
Oops.
Tohru stayed silent for a moment, then said, "I uh…um…"
Hana asked the question again bluntly. "Who's the father?"
Tohru mumbled something the two failed to catch.
"What was that?" Uo asked, now irritated with the unbelievable conversation. "Can't hear when you mumble like that, Tohru."
"Sorry." Tohru said immediately and then tried to tell them again. "The father is…"
A/N: Okay so it's the first chapter and all but let me know what you think. And before I get any flames or reviews saying that it's an overdone idea, I already know it is; I just had an urge to write it! I'll update if I get …. Five reviews. So please, no flames but constructive criticism welcome!