Written on the Stars

Frolicking Deer

After the mud finally began to turn back into dirt, which was 2 days after the rain, Alfred told us that our next 'adventure' was to hike up the mountain to the top. I was usually fond of hiking since I enjoyed walking in nature but, considering the baby kicked non-stop and queasiness stayed with me, I wasn't too excited about it.t

I whipped my forehead as I looked up at the hot sun that beated on us. Fortunately, we were just heading into a dense part where trees hide away the sun.Felicia ran everywhere looking at exotic flowers she's never seen before, Gilbert and Alfred argued over some of the stupidies things, and Sakura took pictures of nature.

I was behind of everyone, for my legs felt weak and I felt my nausea come back. "Monica! Taste this berry, it tastes so good!"I stopped thinking and looked down at Felicia who's mouth was stained purple and held purplish-blue berries in her palms.

"Felicia! don't eat strange food in the forest!"I barked, hitting the berries out of her hands."Now spit them out!"

Her brown eyes looked down as she spit the berry onto the dirt ground. Her eyes looked up at my with a sad expression and I knew someone is going to give me hell for this.

I sighed,"Just be careful and not touch or eat anything you haven't seen before."

"Fine," She mumbled, walking away to sulk.

I inched me way over to Sakura who was studying a blue flower."Hey Sakura, I have to go to the bathroom."I whispered, embarrassed.

"Just go in the woods," Alfred suggested."I've done it lots of times."

"Easy for you to say, You've a male." I grimaced at the thought of peeing in the woods where there dirt and animals running around. What if I use the bathroom on some poison ivy and they touch me somehow then I get poison ivy...down there.

"Just squat down or do whatever you got to do."Gilbert laughed. Everyone now stopped to hear about my...problem.

"It's fine, I'll wait." I began walking but nobody followed.

"Just go," Alfred pestered.

"Fine," I finally gave in. 

I blushed as everyone watched me take my walk of shame in the woods. I walked in deep enough so I couldn't see them anymore, I guessed that they couldn't see me either. I pulled down my pants slighty when I found an appropriate spot and bent down so I could do my business. I kept my eyes on the ground the whole time, ashamed until I heard rustling of leaves.

My eyes shot up, expecting to see Alfred or Gilbert pranking me or taking pictures, but instead I saw a brown deer staring at me.Our eyes made eye contact.It stood so still that it looked like a statue.I swung my arm, hoping to scare it off, however, it step closer.

So, I continued to do my buisness as a deer stared at me, hearing Alfred scream in the distance followed by Gilbert's laughs that echoed throught the woods, still the deer wasn't faced by his laughs.

Once I was finished, I pulled up my pants quickly, sending the deer off, frightened.

I emerged from the woods to see Sakura and Felicia with no sigh of Alfred or Gilbert.

"Monica!There was a deer that just ran across!"

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We all laid in the center of our camp site, watching the stars.It was out final night here and, honstely, I was sad that our time together felt so short.It was 3am and nobody wanted to sleep the last monet of us together away.

"Sakura, I hope you'll love being in Japan again."Felicia spoke after we just laid in silence, hearing crickets chirp and the river flowing. 

"I'll miss you guys,"Sakura said. I couldn't see that much in the dark but I could tell there was tears in her eyes.

"When did you want to be a doctor?"Gilbert changed the subject to stay happy.
Silnce fell upon us once again,"When my mother died from an uncureable sickness, it was then I vowed that I would help someone else who had to suffer like my helpless mother.You know?"I realized then that Sakura never told us much about her past.

"Alfred, have you decided what major you're going to pursue yet?"She went to a different topic.

"No, not yet.I feel like nothing really matchs me nor do I want to do that job all my life."Alfred replained.There was lite hints of anger in his sentence."All of my family wants me to be success like my cousins but I can't reach up to them.They don't want me to end up like my mom who was a teenager when she got pregnant to me and never finished high school."He snarled.

"You're not going to be like your mom, Alfred, but you also don't have to be a lawyer or a dentist like your cousins.Just do what you want and don't let them decide and remember you're not like you're mom.You're in college, already on the way to succes, you just don't know it."Gilbert reassured in wise words and reached out to grab my hand, squeezing it slightly.

"I might up like-"He began to say until Felicia said:"You're just a young adult don't beat yourself up over things like adulthood, you'll get there. We all will."

"Felica what about you?What do you want to do?"I asked, curious.

"I change my mind very easy on things like this.One minute I want to be an artist next I want to be a chef then a stay at home mom, I can't choose."

"You'll figure it out eventally."Sakura said, smiling.

"How did you figure out you're job Gilbert?"Felica asked.

"Well, like you, I could never choose just one job. As I kid it was an astornaut then a singer then I stopped bothering thinking about my future, I thought it was hopeless until one of my highschool teachers encoraged me to go to college and told me how much potenional I had so I did after lots of convieceing but it was worth it. After a while I realized I wanted to be a teacher to encoraged yound adults ike my teacher.So, I became a lighture teacher because I loved to read and write."

We were quiet for a while, not sure what to say, but I'm sure we all had millions of questions for eachother.

"Monica, this is off subject but I have to ask: Did you regret having a one-night-stand and getting pregnant?"Sakura asked.

I thought for a moment.I never thought of this before, but I had the answer the whole time in my head for years.

"No and yes.I'd rather that not be the first time me and Gilbert met but I wouldn't trade it for anything.I would never be with Gilbert now and my life wouldn't be as happy.The pregnancy was scaring but it helped me be stronger."

The stars twinked as everyone was silent and for some reason a wave of sadness flooded me.We wouldn't hang out like this for awhile.I never knew that they met this much to me.

Gilbert snuggled closer to me, pressing his hand on my stomach and kissing my cheek.

"I wouldn't change it for anything."He whispered in my ear, kissing me once more as tears leaked down my face.  

I wouldn't change it for anything

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Sorry guys if it has alot of spelling and grammar mistakes. The new update is SO glitchy, is it like for anyone else?It dosen't correct my spelling or grammar and evertime I use backspace it makes the sentence go up a line and go in to the other paragrapgh.Sorry agian!Wattpad needs to fix this soon.