Masaomi Kida x Jessica Minazai (Book 1)

Chapter 22 - The Consequences

Blake's P.O.V.

It had been a couple of hours since the pinkette, I like to call baka head, or more commonly known as Jess, had passed out from utter exhaustion. Though honestly even after getting patched up, cleaned up, and lectured at I couldn't sleep. I couldn't rest. Truth is even beyond the suffering of my older brother I was worried about Jess.

From the moment I meet with her at the grocery store. I felt something. Something different about her. She carried a different air around her, no. In her. Yes I could feel as if there was something inside, something growing.

I look at my sleeping best friend. Her facial features were so calm, at rest. She had a steady breathing rate. As if nothing bad had ever happened. Her usually get creamy skin pale from everything that's happened. Usually from this distance you could see the little freckles on her face. I chuckle to myself. I love to tease her about it, even from a normal distance nobody would ever notice. But I notice everything about her.

My job has always been to protect her from this nightmare I call reality. Though this time she saved me. I twirled a strand of her pink locks in my finger. It was soft but I could tell she hasn't washed it. I sigh and smile to myself. This girl never does anything without being told. That's why, I'll never leave her side. Even if she's in a different country I'll still be looking after her. Since childhood I've been with her. The runt of the litter I used to call her. I knew then why fate had brought us together.

An hour creeped by and I still monitored the sleeping neko. Masaomi had barged in and I quite literally put him in the next room. Not until she woke up and we had a talk, about 'that night'. Not about what happened but about the consequences of that night. I just hope I'm wrong. For once let me be wrong. She doesn't need this not after this whole month. Between getting kidnapped, finding out Masaomi was power hungry, he tried to kill Kain, to Jess sleeping with him, finding out I've been getting abused by my brother and now this, the fact that she might definitely be pregnant with Kain's baby.

I sigh, my chest hurts. I rest my left elbow on the bed and I lay my head in my hand. I close my eyes and not two minutes later I feel a warm hand on my head. I lift my head and see Jess smiling at me. I see her smile vanish and I fling myself back against the chair in fear she would hit my face due to the speed of how she shot up from bed.

"What are you doing?" My ears twitched at the deafening squeak. I should be asking her that.

"What are you doing?" I ask. She tilts her head. I swear if my eyes could roll to the back of my head they would've and yetI couldn't stop the smile forming on my lips.

"Last time I checked, I should be laying in the hospital bed." I said the truth but I like teasing her. Her ears drooped and her eyes got glossy. I stiffened and sat up straight.

"Hey, no need for tears. I'm fine. I was kidding. I'm more worried about you." This did little to cheer up the younger girl bit I could see she was putting in effort.

"Blake I-"

"You don't need to be sorry. This isn't your fault." Trying to blame yourself for my problem, it hurts. She gave me those eyes that told me everything.

"Look that day you told me I could talk about anything, really hit me hard and it was my fault I let Silver find out that someone knew." Her eyes widened.

"So I was right."

There was silence before I broke it.

"Even if you were, there was nothing you could've done without proof."

"I know. But knowing just made it worse."

"And my avoiding you didn't help. I'm sorry." Jess shook her head profusely.

"No I would've done the same, expect you don't give me a chance fall. You catch me and bring me up. I don't know how to do that with you."

"Practice." There's that puzzled face that I love and want to smack at the same time.

"I'm just saying wether with me or someone else. Someone will always need you to catch them. Besides you did catch me. You caught me right before I hit the bottom and that's more than I can thank you for." I smiled and felt a pair of arms wrap arm around neck and hiccupy sobs.

"Baka head." I said rubbing her head. There's was a fail attempted of a laugh and she let go. We spent an hour just gossiping about everyone and bitching about how terrible the hospital food is. Until I decided it was time to tell her...