Nielu [REWRITTEN]

10 - Full of Lies

Garroth spots a car seat sitting in the bay window front of a store and excitedly points to it. "I found it!" he shouts.

Aaron strolls over to him. "You don't need to shout. I have sensitive ears, remember?" he growls.

"Right. Sorry." Garroth smiles. "I found that car seat."

Aaron glances up at the car seat sitting in the window. It was a black and gray with a stripe of green down the middle. "That'll work, thanks Garroth."

He rushes into the store with Garroth walking in behind him.

ONE HOUR LATER

Aph lays on the couch as Nana munches on a bag of potato chips she found sitting in a kitchen cabinet.

"You know, I feel like Aaron's been ignoring me lately." Aph whispers. "Am I that bad?"

Nana swallows a chip. "No! Of course not! Aph, you're not bad. He loves you, truly! I'm sure he's got a good reason."

The beach house's door is pushed open by a foot as Garroth runs in first. "I'll make sure none of the parents are home!"

Aaron walks in then, one hand grasping a car seat's handle. He sets it downs in front of Aph.

"Aaron?" Aph sits up now. "What's the car seat for?"

"Take a look." he smiles now.

She gingerly lifts the blanket that hangs over the handle and gasps. "A....Aaron? Y..you..." she trails off and leans over to hug her boyfriend. "Thank you."

"That stack of papers I had you sign, wasn't for a date." Aaron reveals. "It was to adopt him."

Aph bends down and lifts the baby out of his car seat and into her arms safely. "Ethan's ours now?"

"Yeah. He's ours."

"I'm happy he's ours. But if our parents find out, what will we tell them?" she whispers.

"Kawaii~Chan, Garroth; can you both keep Ethan's adoption a secret?" Aaron fixates his eyes at the two.

"Definitely." Nana answers. "Under one condition though. You keep my secret."

"What, the fact Zane got you pregnant?" Garroth blurts out.

Nana drops her bag of chips and they crumble into tiny pieces on the floor. "Garroth, remind me to serve you burnt french toast tomorrow morning."

"My bad! I'm sorry, KC!" the blond quickly responds back.

"You're pregnant?" Aph asks her friend.

"Mhm! Zane's been glued to my side since we found out. I'm only a few weeks in."

"Congratulations." Aaron says.

"Thank you." Nana states, then glues her gaze towards the infant in Aph's arms. "You two adopted him? He's not yours biologically?"

Aph shakes her head. "Not biologically, no. Aaron, what if we tell our parents he is ours by blood. That we kept him a secret from them to protect him?"

"Would that even work? We'd be lying to two werewolves, and at least a few humans. My parents would snuff out my lie before I even told it."

"They would do that?" Nana ponders. "Then again, that sounds like something my parents would do."

Aphmau tilts her head at Nana. "You never spoke of your family. What were they like, even?"

"It doesn't matter, I'm estranged with them. But, look on the bright side, Garroth's gonna be an uncle eventually." Nana smirks at the blond. "Hard to believe that, huh?"