Title: Bubble Tea

Genre: Romance/Drama

Rating: M

Disclaimer: I no own

Summary: The pink plus sign was bad. Her hands quivered as she reached for her second test. They did say that one should do at least three. Or she thought that's what they recommended. There was no use denying it, Bunny Tsukino was pregnant.

NO BETA. BEWARE OF ERRORS.(Looking for a beta! Message me if you're interested)

Order 1. Strawberry Yogurt with Boba.

The pink plus sign was bad. She was pretty sure it was bad. Her hands quivered as she reached for her second test. They did say that one should do at least three…or she thought that's what they recommended. Third time was the charm, right?

Blue eyes squeezed shut as she watched the other two plus signs appear on their own respective sticks.

"This can't be happening," She said to her cat, Luna, who had been sleeping inside of the bathtub for some unknown reason.

There was no use denying it, Bunny Tsukino was pregnant.

Her stomach sunk down to her toes, and she resisted the urge to vomit. She couldn't have been that far along. One thing was for certain, the child she was with was not her current boyfriend's. They hadn't slept together yet.

That only meant one thing.

"Fuck."

Bunny flushed the toilet, threw her results away, and washed her hands. Luna purred as she hopped easily out of the tub and nudged the cracked open bathroom door so that her lithe body could fit through.

"Some support system you are," Bunny muttered before looking at herself in the mirror.

She pretty, she knew that for sure. Dark blonde hair which was often kept in a braid down to her waist, large sky blue eyes, and a cute enough face that plenty of guys seemed to like just fine. Really it was her personality that drew people in. She was charming and vivacious. It's what made her quite popular with people.

Even at thirty years old, people swarmed to Bunny like flies. She reveled in it. It's what made her so popular with the kids that she taught. Unfortunately, there was that one guy who had been so attracted to her and had gotten her into the mess she was in now.

"That's not fair, it took two to tango," She was near hysteria. The only thing that kept her grounded was talking to herself. Which she was pretty sure was a sign of temporary insanity.

The man had been a dream. It was right after her horrific breakup with her longtime boyfriend Diamond Wiseman. That had been a terrible relationship. She still wasn't sure why she stayed with him for so long.

Darien Shields was a man she had met while alone on vacation at her parents time-share unit in Hawaii. They had spent the entire week in bed together. It was passionate, and whenever Bunny felt lonely she let her mind wander to those seven days of bliss.

He had been tall, much taller than Diamond. His dark features made him look like the stereotypical male interest in a romance novel. She could recall how dark his ocean blue eyes were, how perfectly square his jaw was, and how broad his chest was. He had Adonis's body that had been for sure. And he knew just how to please a woman. The thought of what he did to her made her toes curl.

Now she was paying for it. Bunny wasn't sure how it happened, well, she knew how. It was the technicalities that made her head spin. She had been on the pill since she was sixteen, and she and Darien had used condoms. Maybe one of them broke? Maybe the pill just didn't do its job? Whatever the reason, there was a baby now growing inside of her.

If it wasn't Darien's then it was Diamond's. Although Bunny doubted that, it had been six months since her breakup with her ex. She'd be showing if that were the case. As if she'd keep Diamond's baby. Who was she kidding? She probably would have.

It had only been seven weeks since her affair with Darien. Was abortion still on the table? She didn't know the guy at all. Would he even help her out? It wasn't as if Bunny needed the help, she was fine financially, but she'd be saddened if her child grew up without a father figure.

She paced her apartment's living room, mindful of not tripping over own feet. Luna watched with luminous yellow eyes, her tail flicking to and fro with each of Bunny's footfalls.

What was she going to do?

She still had Darien's business card. He lived and worked in New York City, but Bunny was in Orlando, Florida. That was a day's car ride away. A near three hour plane ride from one another. She had never been to Manhattan, but it sounded like it would be too drastic to just pop up at his office.

Would it be fair to just dump this on him? She snorted, like it was fair that it was dumped on strictly her?

Picking up her cell phone, she called the one person she always ran to whenever things became a bit sticky.

Her cousin.

If it weren't for that fact that it was that sickly sweet sugar pop ringtone blaring from her phone, she would not have answered it. Since it was, she had no choice.

Mina Aino, if nothing else, was reliable towards her loved ones…for the most part. She tried her best. It was rare when Bunny would call her so early American Eastern time on a Sunday. She hadn't been aware that her cousin even knew that morning's existed on the weekends.

Living in England, the five hour time difference sometimes made phone calls a bit tricky. It had taken a long time to get used to that was for sure.

"Hey Rabbit-Face," Mina grinned into the phone. She folded yet another piece of laundry. Her risqué lingerie pile was getting awfully high. Perhaps she should get some normal cotton one's soon. "You're up early for you. What's going on?"

Bunny began to ramble. About everything; from her kids at work to her damned cat who had apparently been mean to her that morning.

Mina's ice blue eyes looked over at her own cat. A beautiful white feline with bright blue eyes and a cute pink nose named Artemis. He was curled up in a tight ball, sleeping peacefully on her therapeutic pillow. Probably getting high off of the scent of lavender which was infused in the stuffing.

"Get to the point," She told her loquacious cousin. This effectively cut through the bull. Usually she allowed Bunny to go on, often times she found it quite endearing, despite the fact that they were both in their thirties now and most people would have found it an annoying nervous trait.

Unfortunately she didn't have time for that. She had to shower and get ready for a date soon with a top client. Her boss hadn't been able to make it, so she had sent Mina in her stead, it was a large opportunity to prove that she was ready for a promotion to be head stylist in her department.

Her cousin hiccupped, a sure sign of soon to be tears. "Oh Mina," She breathed.

This caused the other woman to suddenly pay acute attention. The tone of her cousin's voice was worrisome.

"What's wrong?" She sat down on her bed, jostling Artemis awake. She pressed her cell closer to her ear. Apprehension flooded her system.

Bunny hiccupped again, "I'm pregnant." She admitted; her voice barely above a whisper.

Mina felt as if she had tunnel vision, her entire world narrowed. "What?" She uttered softly. "Didn't you just start dating that Seiya guy?"

Her cousin was crying softly now. "It's not Seiya's."

A red flag went off in her head, "Tell me it's not Diamond's." The edges of panic were already beginning to grasp at her with greedy hands.

"No," Bunny's sniffles had calmed a little.

Relief spread throughout Mina at the fact that it was not her cousin's asshole ex-boyfriend's.

Now curiosity piqued. "Who else did you sleep with?"

Perhaps she asked a bit harshly. It wasn't intentional. Her eyes narrowed and she jumped when Artemis nudged her tightly coiled fist with his head. He consoled her as she gently petted him, enjoying the purrs that he emitted.

The woman on the other line sighed, "His name is Darien Shields. You know… the guy I met in Hawaii."

A light went on in her head, "The hunk that you had a sexcapade with? Jeez Buns. What're you going to do? Does he know yet? Are you going to keep it?"

The questions caused a fresh bout of tears to occur and her cousin was sobbing again.

"It's okay, it's okay!" Mina said in her best soothing voice she mentally cursed when she noticed the time on her alarm clock, "You're going to be fine. We'll figure out what to do. For now just think on it, I have to get going now honey-Bunny, but I'll be State side soon, okay? I'll call you later."

"Okay," Was her cousin's warbled reply.

"I love you, okay?"

"Love you too, V."

They said their goodbyes and quickly hung up.

"Ugh. What a mess this is, Art." She said to her cat. He began to lick her hand, his sandpaper tongue tickling her fingers. It caused a small smile to break out upon her face.

The thought of Bunny with a baby was frightening. Granted, it wasn't as if they were children anymore. It was a good thing that her cousin was an established adult, it was better than if she had been a teenager or a woman in her early twenties. Still, pregnancy was scary, even planned ones were uncertain. She wondered what this Darien Shields looked like; Bunny had described him as the hottest man alive. Their baby was probably going to be adorable. If Bunny decided on keeping it.

"What a mess," She repeated while gently depositing her cat onto the bed and standing up to get ready.

She paused to stare at her long bleach blond hair and her ice blue eyes in the mirror.

She was beautiful, people called her Venus for a reason. She was slim and tall with high cheekbones and perfect feminine curves. She tried to imagine herself pregnant and shivered in revulsion. Even though she was turning thirty-one in a few months, that didn't mean that she was necessarily ready to settle down and have children. That was proven by the fact that her longest relationship had been with a married man. Their affair was going on five years strong, and Mina hated herself a little for that.

Before she hopped into the shower she decided to call the person she turned to whenever she was having issues coping. She went to this person when she had problems that she couldn't run to Bunny with because her younger cousin took everything to heart, even if they didn't involve her directly.

Picking her phone up she speed dialed the number 3 and waited.

"I'M YOUR VENUS. I'M YOUR FIRE. YOUR DESIRE!"

Her phone began to blare right in the middle of her yoga class. Nearly everyone in the studio turned to give her an icy glare. One that she easily returned.

"Please excuse me," She told the instructor through gritted teeth before grabbing her cell out of her gym bag and hurrying out of the room to answer.

She walked further down away from the studio, making sure to get out of the long corridor quickly so that her voice wouldn't echo throughout the area before answering.

"Mina, you're interrupting my yoga." She hissed.

"Good morning to you too," Mina's sarcastic tone was no surprise, she often time's responded that way whenever Rei Hino snapped. Which was nearly all the time.

Rei tugged agitatedly on the end of her high ponytail. It wasn't as if she hated speaking with her friends, far from it. Just not during her yoga class. That was the only time of the week where she could just be. "You got me in the middle of my class." She grumbled.

Mina let out a dramatic sigh, "Rei, you may want to sit down for this."

The raven haired woman rolled her deep violet eyes. She and her friend were both on the cusp of being thirty-one, yet the blond woman was still as dramatic as she had been back in high school. "Just spit it out."

She would soon realize that she would regret saying those words. Because she really did not want to know what was about to be said.

"Bunny's pregnant."

"WHAT?" She was sure that her voice echoed throughout the entire building, not that she quite cared at that moment. "Who did that to her?"

"Calm down, I just had to tell someone. I don't know what do to for her." The woman on the other line whined.

Rei's hand tightened on her cell, her knuckles turning white, "I'll tell you what we'll do. We find the bastard and castrate him."

"I called you for advice!"

This made the raven haired woman go silent. Mina was always running to her whenever things became too much to bear. It had been that way since they had met. Although Rei wasn't quite sure why, she had a fiery temper and was prone to bitch fits. Still, it meant something to her that someone ran to her for help.

Letting out a frustrated sigh, she shook her head to herself. "I don't know what we can do. Bun-head got herself into this predicament. It's not Diamond's, is it?"

"No!"

"That's a load off. Are you still coming State side by the end of the month?"

Mina hummed an affirmative into the receiver, "Hopefully sooner rather than later. I have to go now Rei, I'll call you later, okay? I've got an important meeting with a client that I cannot afford to be late to."

"Talk to you later, bye." Rei hung up first, not one to lag a conversation on.

She leaned heavily against the wall beside her and frowned. Disappointment flooded her. She expected more out of Bunny. They had all discussed having children at the same time and raising them together. It had been a silly dream, but the older that they had gotten and the more childless they remained, the more it at looked like they were going to be a group of spinsters. With a dozen cats.

Calming herself, she marched her way back into the yoga studio and gathered her belongings. Today had been a wasted trip. There was too much on her mind now, and not even yoga would do her any good. The news of one of her best friends being knocked up only added onto her worries.

Last night her long term boyfriend, Itto Asunuma, had asked her to move in with him. It was terrifying. They had been going out together for four years now. She had wanted to take it slow; she saw no point in rushing anything. She had thought that her boyfriend had understood that. He had, he tried, and now he was ready for the next step in their relationship. Rei, on the other hand, wasn't so sure.

She had major commitment issues, which she gladly blamed her father for.

Now Asunuma didn't want to even speak to her, not until she could give him a solid answer. She didn't want to lose him from her life, but she didn't know if she wanted to let him in fully. To allow him access to a place in her heart where no other man had been.

She threw her gym bag in the trunk of her car and stared at her relfection on the rear window.

Her jet black hair was up in a high ponytail, and she was wearing her yoga clothes, but she was still pretty. Her dark eyes were nearly violet, the same could be said for her hair. Her skin was milk white, no matter how often she tried to tan. She had a dramatic, almost gothic, beauty. Her eyes trailed down to her flat stomach and tried to imagine herself with a baby.

Rei blanched.

With a shake of her head, she hopped into the front seat of the car and began to drive.

She clicked the button for her phone on the steering wheel.

"Welcome," Her car greeted, "Who would you like to make a call? State by number or by name."

"By name," She ordered, switching lanes. The car behind her honked angrily, and she flipped him the bird.

"Name please."

"Amy."

"Calling AMY."

There were times where she hated working at a hospital. Now was one of them. There was never any pause, never any stop, and although Sunday mornings was usually one of the slower days, it didn't stop her from wanting nothing more than to go home to sleep. She had been working for forty-seven hours straight now, so perhaps that was the reason why she was so cranky. Only one more hour and she was free.

When her phone began to buzz in her white coat's pocket, Amy Mizuno-Herman nearly groaned out loud. If that was another intern messing up something as simple as a catheter she was going to scream.

She had only been a doctor for three years now, having finished her residency early at the age of twenty-seven. She was determined to quickly make her way in being the best, and so far was considered a medical genius considering her age.

Quickly, she ducked into a nearby storage closet and leaning against the door to prevent anyone else from entering. She ran a hand through her short dark hair so that it was moved away from her face before reaching into her pocket for her phone.

A sigh of relief escaped her when she noticed it was only one of her friends.

The girls knew better than to call her whenever she was at work. Which was always, so they never called, much to her disappointment. This could only mean that it was an emergency.

"What's wrong?" She asked as she answered, staring up at the florescent lighting of the closet.

"Itto asked me to move in with him," Rei barked. It was obvious that she was agitated. Not that the emotion was something unfamiliar for her.

Amy perked up, "That's wonderful. You should really consider it. However, if that's what this call is about, I'm afraid that I really must get back to work."

Rei scoffed, "Bunny's pregnant."

The doctor froze, "Excuse me?"

It was surreal. Although not too shocking, Bunny was bound to have children eventually. They all were. Or, at least that was the plan. Still, it wasn't as if it were the worst scenario. Amy has seen worse.

"It's not too bad," The doctor of the duo stated calmly. "There is worse than this."

"Her life is over, Amy," Rei snarled.

Amy rolled her eyes, "Enough with the dramatics. I would have expected this from Mina. Having a child does not mean that it is the end of the world. She's a thirty year old woman; we'll just have to support her."

The door handle behind her began to jiggle. Someone was trying to enter the supply closet.

"She doesn't have a steady man. It's going to be hard for her to date after this. And…and…" the angry woman on the other line began to stutter.

"Listen," Amy cut her off tersely, "Enough with this juvenile behavior. Worry about your own relationship, Asunuma is a fantastic guy and you are very lucky to have him in your life. Bunny will be fine, as long as we are there for her. I have to go back to work now, Rei. Try to calm down."

She hung up shortly after and moved away from the door where her fellow doctor quickly entered with his own cell phone.

He gave her a sheepish smile, "You too?"

She smiled softly and shrugged before leaving the small room.

There was a little part of her that regretted speaking to the other woman in such a harsh way. But that was no doubt the reason Rei had called her, she knew that she needed someone to tell her how it was.

Honestly, Amy was exhausted as she finished her forty-eight hour shift and was more than read to head home. It was time to speak with her husband about the trials the two of them had been going through; she desperately wanted to make it work out between them.

She had married directly out of high school to her sweetheart Gregory Herman. It had been shocking for everyone when she decided to elope. She was always so meticulous and very calculating. Never pegged as the romantic type.

They had been having some issues over the last two years. Ugly arguments and nasty words flung carelessly at one another. She was too involved with her career, he wanted children. They had gone back and forth and both had been unhappy for a while now. Still, Amy loved Greg.

Imagine her surprise when she entered her townhouse that evening to find it empty. The place was void of any forms of life and had an abandoned feel to it.

She furrowed her brows and searched their home, noticing that her husband's clothing and a few of his possessions were gone. A sinking feeling made its way into the pit of her stomach.

There was a note resting on the kitchen's island, Greg's handwriting legible from her spot at the kitchen's entrance.

"I can't do this anymore. I'll be at my brother's house until this is finalized."

Underneath the letter were divorce documents.

A lump developed in Amy's throat. "What a coward," She whimpered.

Her phone began to buzz again, she answered without even looking at the caller ID.

"Hey Ames, Andrew just proposed to me!" Lita's voice was boisterous and filled with happiness that the doctor now felt empty of.

"That's wonderful," She managed to spit out.

Her friend came down from her high immediately, "Are you okay?"

"Yes, I'm sorry," Amy's eyes scanned the papers. It looked like she'll be calling Rei back sooner than she planned. Her friend was a divorce attorney. "Bunny's pregnant."

This caused a loud noise to escape Lita's throat. "I'll call you back!"

The dial tone was left in her wake and Amy allowed a single tear to fall down her cheek. She felt as if her world were falling apart from the seams.

"Bunny's pregnant!" Lita Kino yelled across her and her (very recent) fiancé's apartment from her spot in the kitchen.

Andrew Ferrara stuck his head out from their shared bedroom door, "You're kidding!"

They were the type of people who had no problems talking from opposites sides of their apartment. It was fortunate that the walls separating them from their neighbors were soundproof.

Her fiancé came out of the room, shrugging a plain white t-shirt over his torso. Her green eyes watched him, always loving his reverse strip teases.

He was boyishly handsome. With nicely tanned skin, shaggy dirty blond hair, kind hazel eyes, and a smatter of freckles across the bridge of his nose. He was taller than her, which was a plus, he stood at a proud six feet tall. And he was able to take her on in the kitchen, which she found as a major turn on. This man was going to be the father of her future children.

Speaking of children…

"Yeah, Amy just told me." She confirmed. She stared back down at her cell phone, which was resting innocently on the kitchen counter.

"Are you going to call her?" Andrew asked while passing by her to get a can of soda from the refrigerator. "And who told Amy?"

She shrugged. "It kind of took the fun out of our good news."

Her fiancé gave her a kind grin, "If you think about it, it's more like a balance. There's our fantastically good news. And Bunny's…surprising…news. Balance in the world."

She rolled her eyes at him as he made his way into the living room.

"Tell me all the details when you find them out!" He called out from his spot on the couch.

Lita cracked a smile, "You're such a gossip!"

She caught her smiling reflection from the corner of her eye off of the very clean microwave front. Even as distorted that it was, she could see her wavy brown hair up in its trademark ponytail, her large green eyes and full mouth. She was tall, standing at a proud 5'10", and had the body of an Amazon woman.

It was odd to think of Bunny with a child when the woman sometimes forgot to feed her cat. The thought of babies made Lita's mind wander to her own future children. She could imagine them with Andrew's hair and her eyes, or his eyes and her hair. They would have kind smiles and tough attitudes.

She could already hear them calling for her. Mom was usually the one that kids turned to first. She couldn't wait.

Instead of allowing herself to remain in her daydreams of the future, Lita picked up her phone once more. There was no use beating the bush around it now that she knew.

She had Bunny on speed dial.

Bunny huffed as she saw the caller ID. She answered her phone with a frown, "Are no secrets sacred amongst you women?"

It had been roughly only an hour she had told Mina that morning. However she was expecting someone to call her sooner. Her cousin was slacking when it came to spreading gossip.

She was sprawled out on her couch. Darien's card rested within reach on the coffee table. The Food Network was playing as background noise. Luna was skulking around somewhere.

Lita let out a dry chuckle, "Well…no. You know this, there's no such thing as those. By the way, your news really stole my own news's thunder."

"Oh?" She fiddled with the end of her loosened braid. Her wavy blond hair was coming undone.

"I'm engaged. Andrew proposed last night." She said it in a dry tone, making it quite obvious that her joy about the announcement had been sucked out of her.

Bunny, despite her situation, still felt happy for her friend. "It's about time. You guys have been together since college, and have been living together for seven years. I was wondering when he'd make an honest woman out of you."

"Have you seen a doctor yet?" Lita switched the topic back to the original subject abruptly.

"Not yet, I've made an appointment for Tuesday."

"Well, if you need anything you let me know. I'm serious, whatever you need. Even if it's disposing a male body."

This caused the blond to giggle, "Okay Lita."

"I'm going to go now, so you take care of yourself, okay? Call me any time." Lita sounded sincere and sweet. It was how she always spoke to her friends.

"I will." The other woman promised. They both said their goodbyes and hung up.

That was what she liked about Lita most. The woman knew when not to push an issue. She wasn't like Mina who was curious and asked a million questions, or Rei who demanded answers, or even Amy who had to break everything down. Lita just let it be, and when Bunny knew what she was going to do and was ready to share, then Lita would be there to patiently listen.

"She should be the one about to be a mom," Bunny muttered to herself.

Tentatively she rested a hand on her lower abdomen. She knew that if she were pregnant, the baby would only look like a shrimp right now.

With great effort she pushed the thought of it out of her head as she focused on her favorite television channel. She tried to ignore the tears which were pooling in her eyes and falling gently from her lashes.

TBC

MoonLLotus: it has been a long time since I've written fanfiction. I've spent the last year revamping all of my old stuff. This story was difficult to start. Especially when it came to pairing off the other Senshi. I decided to take a little bit of occurrences from all of the different SM media. And mix it all together. Hence why Asunuma is in this, same goes for Craig, and why Andrew and Lita are together.

For those who don't know: Bubble Tea or Boba Tea is a beverage with tapioca balls. It can be iced, hot, cold, slush or yogurt. It can be many different flavors (my favorite is Thai Milk Tea). It's delicious, I recommend trying it.

Please review. Flames, criticism, comments, or ideas are welcome.