Eunomia

Chapter 45 "Dear... desire"

~Bryony~

Sebastian drove me home when we left the library. I was still in his car, looking through the window how the drops seem to race on the glass. It was raining, the November weather was starting to show making it way to the winter one. I didn't realize we had reached my house until Sebastian put the car in neutral.

I looked at the white duplex, it had several lights on, that night everybody was at home. Dad, Cameron, Noa... I couldn't help but remember the last time I talked with her.

I was packing for going to Miami. Normally I didn't do it because I had my things there but I needed my dad to see me leaving the house with some clothes. I was packing the first thing I saw in the closet when Noa broke in my room.

"What would have happened if I were naked, huh?" I turned to her, outraged by the lack of privacy in that house.

"We decided we will have the baby." Noa split out as if she was talking about deciding to go to the mall that weekend.

The new hit me and the surprise took over me without my consent. I stopped to stare at Noa, she was caressing her belly with one hand and a light smile could be distinguished in her lips painted in black.

"Eros and I will go to the doctor appointment together and if there's really a baby then... Then we will start our pretty little family." Noa continued explaining with the same bright smile drew on her lips. She was happy of her decision.

Noa kept talking but I stopped listening, that new hit me hard... A baby, there was going to be a baby. Another member of the family that I would never be fully related to. What was Noa going to do with a baby? She doesn't have any patience and she doesn't stand us, her siblings. A baby won't be any better, just cuter but louder.

I don't know how much time went by until I tried to listen to Noa again but there was just one thing in my mind right now.

I don't care about what the emo girl does with her live as long as she understands that I won't be there. I don't want to.

"What does Cameron says about becoming uncle?" I asked the first question that came to my mind for don't have to answer any of the questions I hadn't listened to.

"He doesn't know..." Noa's self-confidence with which she talked about her future plans disappeared. Suddenly she became shy and awkward. "I don't know what would he think so I haven't told him..." She rubbed her arm shyly.

"Am I the first person to find out that you want to stay with that..." I was going to say creature but then I remembered that baby inside Noa was just human so I was fast and corrected my language. "Baby?"

Noa nodded shyly. I didn't understand why was I the first one to whom she talked about this.

"Why?" I asked confused.

"Because I wanted to tell you first... I wanted you to know because I think it will take me some time to share this with someone else."

And she hugged me again. Must be hormones that were becoming her more affectionate because I remember mom used to fight with her due to her refusing to give me a hug on my birthday.