Hearing The Heartbeat (Sequel to 'Broken Perfection')

Supposed To Be This Way

Katsumi awoke to sunlight in her eyes and she lazily opened her eyes. At first, nothing was suspicious, nothing was too scary.

But that only lasted a moment as she climbed out of bed to meet cold air against her skin, making her shiver. It was then she noticed she was completely naked, her clothes and underwear strewn about across the whole room.

And she noticed the room. It wasn't her room. But she knew whose it was. She's been here to bring food whenever he was busy.

Pictures of him and his little sister, along with pictures of him and his friends and the gang, hung on the wall or sat in frames on shelves or his desk.

This was Homare's room.

Horror swelled within her. No... She didn't do it with him, did she...? 

Taking into mind they might have, she looked around the room to make sure that they used any sort of protection, but found no trace of any.

She collapsed, horrified and a panic attack started with her again. Luckily, Homare entered the room just in time to find Katsumi clutching her hair, tears in her eyes as she breathed heavily. "Hey!" he called, scared as he fell onto his knees beside her, pulling her close to him.

"Calm down, calm down, shh..." Luckily, Yui was off on a sleepover with friends so she didn't ahve to witness anything following the events of last night.

After she calmed down, after 10 minutes, Katsumi turned to Homare with scared eyes. "Homare..." she called him by his first name, "D-Did... Did we...?" he turned away with a small nod of shame, hiding the fact that he was sober last night, having the power to stop everything.

If anything were to happen though, he knew he would take full responsibility, no matter what.

She hung her head and turned to look at him with slightly hopeful eyes, "Please tell me we used... protection..." Homare bit his lip, not wanting to answer and Katsumi noticed this.

No... She was too young... And it wasn't a good time last night... It wasn't safe... Oh god...

"Oh god..." she muttered, gathering her clothes and locking herself in the bathroom to change. Tears filled her eyes once more. Sure, she was happy to have a child, but this wasn't a child she was having through choice... Though, there's a chance it wouldn't happen.

An incredibly slim chance...

She could hear Homare shuffling in his room and she quietly opened the door and sneaked out, unbeknownst to Homare. She ran as soon as she got outside, carrying her heels in her hands, meaning she ran barefoot.

She ran all the way to Taketo's house despite her pounding headache from her hangover. She fumbled with her keys and once she got inside, she locked the door behind her and stumbled onto the couch, breathing heavily as she thought about every possible way this could go wrong or right.

She needed to get a test, she could do it herself, she was a trained doctor... Then, Taketo came out and found Katsumi teary eyed on the couch. Worried, he sat beside her and wrapped her up in his arms.

"Hey, hey... You okay?" he asked quietly, stroking her hair. "Hey, calm down, I'm right here, Kat... What happened?"

"I-I... Nothing, I just got scared. I didn't know where I was and then Homare popped out of nowhere..."

"It's fine, he offered to let you stay over last night since his house was the closest to the club." he reassured, but then furrowed his brow. "Why? Did he do anything to you?"

Katsumi tried her best not to stiffen up as she shook her head, face buried in Taketo's chest. "No..." she lied, voice muffled.

"Okay..."

~*****~

Days, weeks passed. And Katsumi never had the guts to check. She took time off of work, claiming she was sick, which she kind of was. She was scared, but to make sure she wouldn't kill her child she ate a bit more than usual.

It's only been two weeks since the incident and Taketo had to leave for a 3 day trip. Now was her chance.

Deciding she didn't want her co-workers to know anything, she purchased a test from the pharmacy store and tested it.

The 10 minutes that she had to wait were agonizing and she was terrified.

Then finally, time was up and she rushed to bathroom to check. She picked up the stick to find 2 lines on it.

Positive...

She tried again and waited another 10 agonizing minutes to get the same results.

Positive... Pregnant... She was pregnant. Pregnant with Homare's child.

She was petrified and she had absolutely no idea what to do. The first thought that popped into her mind was telling her brother. But she knew he was super protective and was incredibly serious when it came to this stuff.

But this was going to be his nephew or niece... He had to know. He had the right to.

Picking up her phone with shaky hands, she contacted her brother. "K-Katsuki...?"

Katsuki immediately sensed the worry in his sister's voice and he furrowed his brows. "Katsumi? What happened? Are you okay...?"

"Katsuki... I need you to come over to Taketo's house right now, please..."

No words were said, Katsuki left work and dashed to Taketo's home.

~*****~

He knocked and within seconds, Katsumi had pulled him into the house. Tears were in her eyes and the older brother instinctively held his sister close. "Kat? You need to tell me what happened, Kat..."

"Katsuki... I-I'm..." she whispered, breath shaky and filled with fear, "Please don't be mad... I'm pregnant..."

Eyes widening, Katsuki glared at the picture on the shelf next to him. The picture of Taketo and Katsumi.

"Was it Kanzaki? What the hell did he do?!" Her body wracked with sobs, Katsumi could only shake her head no. "N-No... I-It... I..."

"It was Homare."

~*****~

"HOW THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN, KATSUMI!" He yells again, shaking her by the shoulders. Once more, she refuses to answer, the sobs cutting off her every attempt to speak.

"I..." she began sobbing again. "Please... Tell me, please..." Katsuki's voice sounded desperate as he stared into her teary eyes.

Katsuki knew she wasn't ready, especially since it hasn't even been a year since Keiichi's death. That and she was just too young, she knew it as well, so what the hell happened?

"P-Party... Group... H-Homare took..." she managed to utter out, head hanging down, "D-Drunk... It was all an accident, I swear...!" she cried desperately, body wracked with sobs once more as Katsuki took his sister into his arms.

He wanted his sister to know. He wanted her to know that he was there the whole time, until the very end.

He wasn't too happy to learn that this was happening too suddenly, but he loved his sister, and he was going to be there by her side until then.

But Katsumi was losing hope. She wasn't ready, and besides, was Homare even going to give child support or anything? He still had a sister in high school to take care of for God's sake!

This was what she had always dreamed of, having a family of her own...

But it wasn't supposed to be this way.