Perceive

Aftermath.

Owwww....my head feels like a watermelon.
Lovely thought, isn't it?
I had very ungracefully passed out. Again. You know for all the powers and the magic and the awesomeness, I had a real low tolerance to staying awake. I wanted to go demand for a refund really.
I looked around me, and found Gia, asleep, drooling on the damned pillow. That dirty pig.
Of course, Satan won, again. I snapped about 30 pictures of her drooling on the bed. This would be hilarious when she woke up.
By the looks of it, everyone was asleep. And I wasn't asleep, no, I was almost comatose. I tried to get up. I thought someone was punching me out from the inside out. I could barely breathe. My eyes watered, and I felt like throwing up.
But, since I'm so stubbornly me, I kept trying to get up. On my fourth or fifth try, I got up and out the bed. I was careful not to wake Gia up, as I went to stand by the window. Soon, I realised, I needed a strong coffee.
As soon as I had that thought, Adri walked in with a steaming mug of coffee, with cinnamon sprinkles.
Wow, I don't remember telling him about the cinnamon. That was my special ingredient.
The more I looked at him, the more I could read his body language. Clearly, he felt guilty about something. He was almost scared to be anywhere near me. At the same time, the thought of me leaving him, and soon, looked like it was about to finish him off. Weird.
I was never planning on quitting on him. Whatever the case may be. As soon as that thought crossed my mind, I could not only see him heave a sigh of relief, I could swear he said thank fuck, but his lips weren't moving.
My head was getting fried, I better talk to the guy and soon, before I lose it completely.
I walked up to him, but before I could say much he threw me up against the wall and ground his pelvic bone with mine, really hard.( Pun intended)
We were in the middle of a full make out session, before it suddenly came to me that the bitch in front of me is trying to avoid my questions, by using my trick on me. Sexy distraction!!!
Before he could get too far ahead I pretended, my ribs hurt.
"Yeowwww, that hurts!"
At my scream, he backed off, as if he'd been, electrocuted. It was nuts. He looked at me, horrified, as if I'd caught him trying to murder me. Idiot!
" So, is there something you might want to tell me, Adri?"
" Cass, I know it's too much to ask from some one like you...but will you please, trust me enough that till this is over, you won't ask me questions, or be too observant, please, I love you, and I hate hiding from you, but right now I'm real thin on options. The only way for me to stay by you, right now, is this. Please no questions for now. I promise you, I will tell you and give you a choice. But please, for now, heal, recover, and let's finish this one chapter before I have to lose you, possibly, permanently."
There was so much emotion in his eyes. I knew this, that he wasn't as human, as he'd like to think that he was. And I would respect his space. Sides, that other form looked cute on him. So I wasn't really going to kill him with questions.
" It's alright, I get it. I'll back off, for now, but-", I couldn't get anymore edgewise. He grabbed me and lifted me up, with my thighs tightly locked around his waist. He kissed me again, with the same fervour as before, and then proceeded to rip up my makeshift comfy, hospital-ish, clothing with one hand while balancing me with the other.
He fell backwards on to the bed and dropped me on his side. He kicked off whatever clothing he was wearing, in a minute, probably less. He rolled over on top of me, only to realise, that my best friend , Gia, was fast asleep on the other queen bed.
I suddenly broke out into hysterical laughing. So much so, that I didn't even notice, when the boy got up, clothed, and had left the room.
Gia woke up with sleepy eyes, and messy hair. She looked at me, and said," What the hell, Sandy, why are you laughing like a damned banshee, you freak! Isn't sleeping for 23 hours, enough freaky for a day?"
I was shocked at myself." 23 hours? You serious?"
She grinned at me, "You should've seen dog boy! The only way he would leave to shave and shower, is if I threatened him with nudity, and a bomb in his face!"
And she lost me for another twenty odd minutes. Now there were literal tears rolling out my eyes. And no sound coming out of my mouth. Nudity...my sister, she's the actual devil!
I think it was all the laughing, but I started to feel an ache in my stomach. A sudden urge to throw up. I ran to the bathroom and let it all out. It wasn't until Adri came up rushing with peppermints, that I could finally calm down.
He began to palpate my ribs, stomach, lower abdomen and took my pulse. His medical training kicked in perfectly." When did you have your last period?" To which I answered that it was almost a month and a half now since the last one.
And I suddenly froze. I was late. I was never late. Infact, I was clockwork. Every 28 days. This time I was almost fifteen days late. My life, in general had been such, that the thought or idea of having a baby, it was a fantasy. It was something that I could only think of, never really do. Because I never knew who would come kill me. And endangering my kid, over this, it would only happen over my dead body.
The idea of being pregnant, was dangerously scary.
I looked around, and I saw Adri's expression. It was a cross between shock, and happiness. I could feel it pouring out of him. He was more happy, than he'd ever been, and had I not been frozen into a statue, he would have expressed his joy, profusely.
" Cass, hey, are you alright? I don't exactly need a confirmed yes or no sweety, but you have been frozen for a while now."
" Adri, I'm pregnant, probably, and you're happy I'm guessing?..."
His face morphed into the most tender expression, I had ever seen. " More than you know, love... She's going to be the perfect combination of you and me."
Hearing his words, I knew, embarking on this journey would be a must, but it's difficulty level, as usual, would be a complete mystery to me.