With me

“Hey, what’s up?” she asked as the door opened.

Instead of getting a smile or being teased, she was greeted by a hug. “Hey, what’s wrong?” she asked.

He pulled her in. “She left me for another guy,” he answered quietly.

“She what?” Linda asked, surprised.

He looked upset and looked as if wanted to cry. Linda knew that he liked his girlfriend a lot even though she felt that the girl did not even suited for him. She hugged him tightly. “If you want to cry, go ahead. You will feel better if you do,” she whispered to him and he did.

A few months later, he managed to forget her bit by bit with the help of his best friend, Linda. He sat in his car, thinking of his best friend who had been there be it day or night for him. He had always go to her if he had troubles and she would always be the one to comfort him if his girlfriends left him. His friends always tell him that she is the best one for him but he never acknowledges it. She is always there for me, he thought when his thoughts were snapped by the knock on the window.

“Tomohisa! Open the door!” Linda knocked his window.

He opened the door quickly and she got in. He stared at her. “Ne, do I look fine? I want to look the best for the graduation party,” she asked.

P stared at her, not blinking. She looks gorgeous, he thought. “Tomo-chan?” she asked.

“Umm..you look fine,” he replied and looked away.

Linda smiled. “Let’s go,” she said.

At the party, P watched as a couple of guys hit on her. He felt angry suddenly and was confused by the feelings. Girls swarmed over him but he just ignored them and his eyes were fixed on only 1 girl-Linda.

Linda came up to him. “Tomohisa, I think you better go home. I will take a taxi home. You have work tomorrow, right?” she asked, concerned.

He shook his head. “Yes, I do but I will send you home no matter what,” he insisted.

Linda looked at him weirdly and nodded slowly, thinking that he is in one of those weird moods. “I’ll be making my move soon,” she said.

A few hours later.

“Linda? You are home,” P said, pulling up in front of her house.

P looked at his side and saw Linda sleeping peacefully. He smiled softly and studied her face. Without realizing it, he was almost kissing her when Linda woke up and stared at him. P pulled back and blushed. “You are home,” he said.

Linda nodded. “Thank you,” she said and quickly went out.

She looked back and saw P looking at her. She smiled and waved at him before going in. P went off a few minutes later.

A few days later, P looked dazed. Ryo approached him. “What happened to you?” he asked.

“Nothing,” P replied.

Ryo decided to test him. He took out his handphone. “Linda-chan? We are meeting at 8 later,right?” he said.

P snapped and looked him. “You are going out with her? Eh? Why?” he asked, surprised.

Ryo looked at him. “Why should I tell you why? Linda is the best girl one can get and since she is available, why don’t I date her?” he asked.

“But she is not your type!” P said, almost shouting.

Ryo laughed. “You do like her. So why aren’t you confessing to her?” he asked.

P looked at him. “You tricked me. I do not like her. She’s just a friend. A best friend who is always there when I need her. Who is willing to spend hours listening to me talking nonsense, who I do not think I can live if she is not around,” P said quietly.

Ryo laughed. “Go, tell her before it’s too late,” he urged.

“But…” P hesitated.

“P, if you do not tell her now, then when? Till she find someone else? P, I thought you acted in Proposal Daisatsukusen. You should know better right? You cannot turn back time unlike in the drama, you know,” he said.

P smiled. “You are right. Thanks,” he said and got up to find her.

Linda was about to go out, shopping when P stopped in front of her. “Tomo-chan!” she asked surprised.

P pulled her into the car and drove off. He brought her to the sea. Linda looked at him weirdly. “Ne, Tomohisa, why are you bringing me to the sea? Isn’t this the spot that you said you wanted to propose to the girl that you like? You showed me this spot before. Why are showing to me again?” she asked, confused.

“I want you to be mine. Now, future, forever,” he said.

Linda looked at him in surprised. “Huh?” she asked.

“I like you. I love you. I need you. I want you. I don’t know but you are the most important person in my life and I cannot let you be with another guy except me,” he said.

Linda was surprised by his confession. “Umm…I… umm… what is it that you want from me again?” she asked.

“Be my girlfriend,” he said.

Linda stared at him. “Are you sure?” she asked.

P kissed her suddenly. Linda realized that he was telling the truth and accepted him.

A few years later.

“Linda! Come here,” P yelled.

Linda rushed into the room and looked at him. “What’s wrong?” she asked.

P handed her the 5 month-old boy. “Take him,” he said.

Linda took the boy and watched as P left the room, wondering why. She looked at the boy. “Akira, what’s wrong with your papa?” she asked him and all the little boy did was to giggle at his mum.

It was then that Linda realized that Akira had made a mess in his diapers and P was lazy to clean him up. “Tomohisa! You lazybum!” she muttered angrily and went off to clean their son.

An endearing mistake

“Linda, come on. It’ll be fun. The club is very happening. You know what, there are popular stars and idols coming to that club. Let’s go. It will not hurt, right?” her best friend, Yuki persuaded her.

Linda frowned. She had a bad feeling about it. “But, we have exams next week. FINAL EXAMS! And you still want to play? So what if there are stars or idols frequent there? They can’t help you with your exam,” she pointed out.

“Linda, don’t be such a nerd. Just go, for fun?” she persuaded till Linda agreed to go.

A few hours later, after Yuki had decided on what they should wear and a series of ‘Linda, you are not going to look like a granny’, ‘Lin, you are embarrassing me wearing that long skirt’, etc, they managed to get out of Yuki’s apartment.

Linda kept pulling her skimpy top which showed a lot of skin. Linda looked at herself in despair. Fancy being forced to wear a push-up bra and a bright pink one too! But she had to admit that she looked very pretty in that outfit.

Yuki and Linda went in the club and started to mingle around. Linda followed around, unsure of what to do. As they were talking and looking around for stars, a couple of guys sat next to them. “You guys alone?” a guy asked.

The guys were very good-looking and looked very familiar. Yuki whispered to her, “These are Johnny’s boys!”

Linda looked at them and nodded. “We’ll buy you a drink, ok?” the other guy smiled at them.

Linda shook her head, “It’s ok. We had already drank. We can’t afford to drink much as we have lectures tomorrow.”

“Let’s not be shy. I’m Nishikido and this is my pal, Yamashita. There’s another one, Tegoshi but he’s in the toilet. How about you girls?” Ryo asked.

Yuki introduced them and they started chatting. Linda had a low tolerance for alcohol and so she easily got drunk. “Yuki, I’m not really feeling well,” Linda whispered.

Yuki looked at her. She still wanted to chat with the boys and wanted to sing with Tegoshi. Yamashita volunteered to send her back. “It’s ok. We live very near to each other. I can drop her off,” Yamapi replied.

He helped her into his car. Linda who is already drunk, did not realize her actions and started to trace his face and biting his earlobe playfully as he carried her to his car. “Umm…please stop doing this,” he asked her gently.

Linda laughed at him. “Sorry,” she apologized.

A few minutes after he put her in his car, she fell asleep. Yamapi chuckled and touched his ear. “She must be pretty drunk to remember what she did,” he thought to himself.

Yamapi was rather drunk himself. After a few minutes of driving, he decided not to continue for fear of an accident. He turned into a hotel nearby to spend the night to be safe. The hotel was fully booked and the only room left was a room with a queen bed. Yamapi took it as he could not hold on any longer as his vision started to blur. He placed the sleeping girl on one side and he lay on the other side. He switched off the lights and curtains to sleep. He turned and saw Linda sleeping peacefully, looking attractive in the moonlight.

Alcohol started to overcome him and he move nearer to her. He placed his lips nearer to hers and began to lick her lips. He smiled when he tasted her strawberry lip gloss. He started to kiss her. Linda stirred and returned his kiss unknowingly.

The small little action led them to do a deed without them realizing it which is the beginning of a problem.

Unknown to them, nature had already started to take its place. Within the next few hours, the fusion of Pi’s and Linda’s genes had occurred and the cells were slowly dividing themselves up. By the time both of them woke up, a new life had already been created and is struggling to live.

Linda woke up, her head started to throb and she felt pain all over. She felt something warm around her and saw something creamy in front her. She blinked her eyes and was surprised to find herself in an unknown man’s arms. She pushed him away and lifted the blanket and was horrified to find both of them stark naked.

Linda got out of bed and ran to the bathroom with her clothes. She locked the door and began to scrub herself as tears flowed. “What have I done? What have I done?” she muttered, tearfully.

Linda’s sobs woke Yamapi up. He himself was surprised to see himself. He tried to remember what happened last night but nothing came to mind. All he could remember was switching the lights off and looked at a woman. “Linda! Oh no, what have I done?” he muttered as he dressed himself up.

He sat down on the bed, waiting for her to come out. Linda came out, her eyes red from crying. He wanted to hug her but she recoiled. “I’m sorry. This is my number. If…anything happens to you……please call me,” he begged her.

Linda looked away from him. “I don’t want anything from you. Go away,” she said softly.

“I’ll send you home,” he offered.

“I can go home myself,” she rejected his offer and went off.

Yuki was waiting for Linda, worried as she did not come back last night. “Linda! Where did you go? What happened to you?” she asked, looking at her from head to toe.

Linda looked at her blankly and went in without a word. Linda refused to tell her what happened till a few weeks later after their exams were over.

Linda knew something was wrong when she missed her period that month but she denied it. She tried to assure herself that it was just an exam stress which caused her to miss her period. She went on with her daily life without thinking much.

Her appetite started to get larger by day. She craved for food and would throw tantrum if she could not get it. “Linda, you are getting fat if you continue eating too much,” Yuki teased her.

“I’m not fat. Besides, I’m hungry. Is it a crime for me to eat a lot?” she defended herself.

“If you do not watch it, you will gain a belly. Just look at your tummy now,” she pointed.

Linda looked at her tummy and felt scared. She counted mentally how long that incident had happened. It was 2 months ago. Her blood went cold. “Linda, are you ok? You look pale,” Yuki asked, worried.

Linda shook her head and smiled. “It’s fine. I need to go. I’ll see you later, ok?” Linda replied and ran off.

She went to a local pharmacy and bought a test kit. She hurried home and tested herself. To her horror, what she suspected came true.

“Yuki, please…come over..” Linda cried over the phone.

Yuki being worried, rushed over. “Linda, what’s wrong?” she asked.

Linda told her what happened through her sobs. Yuki felt guilty as she was the one persuading her to go. “I’m sorry. I should have never let you go home with him. Do you have his number?” she asked.

Linda nodded and gave her the phone. Yuki took it and went to another room to talk to the guy. A few hours later, he showed up. “Are you feeling ok?” he asked Linda.

Linda nodded her head and looked away. “What are you going to do about this?” Yuki asked him.

“Let’s abort it,” Linda replied.

“No,” he objected.

“Why? You are a super idol. I am just about to have my own life. Now, I am going to be a mother! I can’t bring up a child alone!” Linda screamed at him.

“Who says you are bringing the child alone? I will be responsible for it,” he replied.

Linda smirked. “Responsible? Like? You men will only give money and think they have done their part. I will have to wake up in the middle of the night, looking after the child, feed the child and more worse, people will be prejudiced against me for having a child out of wedlock! I will have the bad name but you go off scot-free. I do not need your money if you think that is being responsible,” Linda shouted at him.

Yamapi looked at her. “That’s not what I meant. I’ll marry you,” he said.

Linda looked at him, stunned. “Are you crazy? Marry me? After marrying, you will go off with other women behind my back. I do not need that. We don’t even know each other, much less love each other,” Linda refused.

Yamapi frowned. “We will know each other better in time. I know we can make our marriage work, not only for the child’s sake but for our own sake too. Let’s give it a try,” Yamapi replied.

A few weeks later, they got married without getting a big hoo-ha from the media. The fans gave them their blessings and they are working together slowly to make this marriage work.

Over time, Linda and Yamapi managed to know each other traits and personalities better. They often fight and had disagreements a lot but they learnt to compromise with each other. Not only that, they are anxious for the arrival of their unexpected baby.

60 years later.

“Tomohisa, I never thought our marriage hold on this far. I hope that we will be together forever,” Linda said, one night.

Yamapi smiled and rubbed her cheek. “Silly, of coz we will,” he replied.

“I have never told you this. Tomohisa, I love you. I never regret a single moment of our marriage together,” she whispered.

He smiled. “I love you too,” he replied back.

Both of them closed their eyes and passed away silently in each other’s arms in that warm night, their fated love burning strong.

Rina's experiment

Linda looked at the doctor’s report in horror. In bold letters, the report confirmed her pregnancy. It’s almost like a death sentence to her. Don’t get her wrong. She loves kids and wants to have kids of her own but the time now is just not right.

Her career had just taken off. She finally had the chance to act beside her husband often ever since their public announcement of their marriage half a year ago. If her husband knows about her pregnancy, he would force her to quit the job she loves dearly and stay home.

“Yamashita Linda-san!” the nurse called her, breaking her thoughts.

Linda looked up and smiled sheepishly. “Sumimasen,” she bowed her head and quickly took her prescriptions.

As she drove home, her mind started to wander.

~A few months ago~

Linda got back home early one evening. She was barely inside the house when her husband jumped on her. “Tomohisa! Chotto matte yo! What are you doing?” she asked as he carried her off to the bedroom.

He put her on the bed. “I’m going to take a shower for awhile, ok?” she said, kissing his cheek.

“Be fast,” he growled.

Linda looked at him, puzzled by his behavior. She took a quick shower and covered herself with a bathrobe. She sat next to him. “Tomohisa, what happened to you?” she asked gently.

Yamapi looked up from where he’s sitting. “I do not know. When I came back, I found a soup made by Rina. She wrote a note, saying that I should drink the soup till the last bit. I drank the soup. It was delicious. A few hours later, I started to get hot and aroused,” he replied, looking pained.

“Soup? I think she…” before Linda could finish her sentence, Yamapi had silenced her with his lips and kissing her hungrily and full of need.

That night, they made love a few times till Yamapi was satisfied and the soup’s concoction wore off.

The next day, Rina was home and looked at her brother and sister-in-law excitedly. Yamapi saw her and grabbed her hand. “What did you do?” he demanded.

Rina laughed. “It’s just turtle soup. I heard about it as an aphrodisiac so I thought of testing it out on you and your wife. How is it? Does it work? Will I see my nephews or nieces soon?” she asked.

“A what? Rina! You test on us? What else did you try on us? Are you trying to tell me that I am weak?” Yamapi asked, unhappy.

Rina shrugged. “Nee-chan, how was it?” she asked, ignoring her fuming brother.

Linda laughed. “It was hmm…a surprised incident. Don’t do it anymore, ok, Rina?” she asked.

Rina nodded but knew that the soup worked for them. Her mom and her plan were working as planned. Her mom had confided in her before that she was worried for them as they barely had time for each other much less planned to have a baby so they had no choice but to resort to dirty tricks.

~end of flashback~

When Linda reached home, there was no one. Yamapi would not get home that early so she had time to find a suitable place to hide the documents that stated her pregnancy. She locked all the documents in a small safe at the back of her cupboard and pretend that nothing happened. She decided to tell Yamapi about it only when she’s five months pregnant. Now, she’s only 2 months pregnant, she still got time to make use of her time to enjoy herself.

A few weeks passed.

Yamapi noticed that Linda has been acting strangely lately. She will eat some tablets secretly which she told him that those are vitamin tablets to keep her healthy and its only for women when he asked but she would never show him the tablets. Not only that, there were a few times when she switched off her hp when he tried calling her. It will always be every two weeks on Wednesday when she did that. When she comes back on that day, she would stash something inside her cupboard when she thought that he did not see it.

Then, there were a few times, he heard her throwing up but when he asked about it, she would pretend that it was just his imagination.

Yamapi was curious to know and so one day, he asked for an off day from work and ransacked his wife’s cupboard. When he found the documents and pictures, he was shocked to know the truth.

Linda went home as per normal that day. When she returned, she was surprised to see Yamapi at home. “Tomo-chan, you are home early,” she chirped.

Yamapi looked at her, his face stern. “Sit down. I need to talk to you,” he replied in a no-nonsense tone.

Linda sat down quietly. She was shocked to see the documents and pictures of the baby scans on the table. “What is this?” he asked, pointing to the papers.

Linda kept quiet. “Linda, answer me! Why are you keeping this a secret? Until when are you going to keep this a secret? You are pregnant, right?” he asked, furious.

Linda nodded timidly. “Answer me! Where’s your voice?” he raised his voice.

“I’m sorry. I keep it a secret because I still want to work. I don’t want to stay at home,” she voiced out.

“Work? In your condition? No way! You are quitting as from this moment. I will not hear any protest. You disappoint me. I hated it when you keep secrets from me especially if it concerns things like this,” he said.

Linda nodded. “I’m sorry. I know I’m wrong,” she apologized.

“No more going to work, understand?” he ordered.

“Please let me work,” she begged.

“No, this is your punishment. You should know better than to do something like this,” he remarked.

“Tomohisa, please let me work. I’m pregnant, not sick,” she begged again, on her knees.

He shook his head. “No,” he answered, adamant with his decision.

Linda frowned. “I will continue working no matter what you say,” she replied, standing up and walked away.

Yamapi grabbed her hand and looked at her in her eyes. His eyes were furious. “Don’t defy me. I’m your husband,” he threatened.

Linda refused to back down. “I am not defying you if you let me continue to work,” she said.

“Linda!” he shouted angrily, tightening his grip on her.

Linda pushed him away. Yamapi stumbled back a bit in surprise and both fell down with Linda on top of him. “Linda, are you ok?” he asked anxiously.

Linda grimaced. “My stomach…” she whispered, clutching it.

Yamapi quickly rushed to the hospital. Luckily, the baby was saved. The doctor told Linda not to work and stay at home till childbirth to prevent any accidents as she was pretty weak. “I told you to stay at home,”Yamapi replied.

Linda turned away. “Sweetheart, its for our baby ok,” his voice softened.

Linda faced him. “I’m sorry,” she apologized.

Yamapi grinned and kissed her forehead. “Let’s look forward for our baby’s arrival, ok?” he smiled.