The Assassin's Weakness✔️

23: You can

Kai picked me up from school and we are making it to my house to tell my parents, I don't know how they will take it, hopefully, they take it well but they could disown me.

We park in front of the house, Kai opens the door for me. I walk inside and my mother is in the kitchen, my father is sitting on the couch.

"Mama, Papa, there is someone I would like you to meet." My dad looks Kai up and down, with no facial expression. My mother comes in with shock visible on her face.

"Who is this?"

"This is Kai, my boyfriend." Kai extends his hand to greet my dad, he takes it.

"Pleasure to meet you, Sir." He does the same with my mother.

"Mama, please sit down for this." She sits down next to dad. "I don't know if either of you noticed but I am pregnant and Kai here is the father."

"I would have loved to meet the two of you under different circumstances."

"Did I not tell you that she was hiding something?" My mother looks between all of us.

"You did. Kamo? Kamohelo! Kamohelo Molapo! O re bontsa dinto. Ngwanaka?" (Translation: You are showing us things. My child?)

"Papa, I am keeping Kat."

"You even have a name for the child."

"Yes, Katleho. Mama, please, I love Kat and I love Kaiser."

"Young man, how old are you?"

"Twenty-one, ma'am." She nods.

"Are you sure you want to keep the child?" My mother asks, I nod. "Okay, baba, I am not sure what you want us to do going forward."

"If she keeps the child, he will have to pay damages." He looks at both of us in disbelief. "How far along?"

"Three months." My mother looks like she is having a hot flash.

"Why didn't you tell us?"

"I was embarrassed, I was scared that you would be disappointed and that you would disown me." My mother wraps her hands around me.

"I may be disappointed but I could never disown you and my disappointment does not last long, you have done so much to make us proud, how is one decision suddenly going to make us disappointed for life? I love you, my baby." I feel her lips on my forehead. I feel so much better now. I feel as though a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulder. When I let go of my mother, my dad gives me a big hug and a kiss on the forehead.

"Can you stay for dinner?" My mother asks Kai.

"I can stay." I squeeze his hand. My mother asks for my help setting the table. My dad is already starting with you got knocked up jokes, they are not funny but my mother is pissing her pants laugh.

We set the table and my mother dishes up for all of us. I helped get with Kai's plate. Kai is a naturally quiet person and my parents are loud people so I do not know how he is coping but I know my parents are having a blast. They are happy for their first grandchild.

"Tell me, Kai, where do you work?" Shit.

"I own an international cleaning company." Great way to put it.

"So business is good?"

"Yes, Sir, might be able to buy Kamo her own car soon."

"Nice but she has to get a license first."

"Yeah, I am planning on it."

"Giving me more time to save up for her car." Modest to say the least.

"So have you told your parents?"

"Yes, I told my mother and grandmother, Kamo met them yesterday."

"Oh, when are we meeting them?"

"Soon." Dinner went well, okay at best, it was filled with questions, I hated it because I felt as though they were hating him one minute and living him the next.

Kaiser left and I stayed. Kaiser went home and I have to deal with my parents, alone. My stomach is not that bad.

"Kamo, come here." My dad calls from the living room.

"Dad?" My mother sitting next to him, I take a seat opposite them, the farther away the better.

"Your mother and I were talking and we support you but we are not sure about your boyfriend." He is not my boyfriend.

"What about him?"

"I mean, guys like him are notorious for getting girls pregnant and leaving them, we just hope you know what you are doing getting involved with him."

"I have an idea of who he truly is and I am making decisions with that in mind. I am taking it all into consideration."

"We just don't want you hurt and stuck in a decision you made under false pretences."

"I am making the best possible decisions for me and what is best for me and Kat."

"Okay. I will call your uncles when you are further along and we can discuss how the ceremony will go."

"Can I give Kai a figure estimate of how much he will have to pay?"

"Two goats." How much are two goats? Honestly, I could care less, Kai has money that is his worry, not mine.

"Cool, I am going to my room, I love you."

"We love you too." I get into my room, close the door, open my phone and there is a message from Kai.

Open the window

I open the window and text him that it is open, a few minutes later, he is getting in through my window.

"My spider monkey." He looks at me dead in the eyes "Anyway, why are you here?" He shrugs and lies on my bed. "Uhm, okay. I am going to take a shower, don't do anything crazy, please?" He nods. I head to the bathroom and I step into the shower. I wash away all the stress of today and the pressure of tomorrow and for a moment everything felt okay.

"Are you staying the night?"

"Do you want me to?" Do I?

"I would love that." He takes off his pants and shirt before getting under my sheets. There is a bit of space between us and I figured it was my job to close it. I grab his hand and place it on my stomach, would have placed it on my breast but we are not there yet.

"I can't sleep when you are not there." I turn to face him.

"Why? What did you do before me?"

"Sleeping pills and exhaustion, I would go three days without sleep before my body would shut down amd I had to sleep. When you are there, I sleep easier." Personal sleeping pill, that's what I am.

"Why can't you sleep?"

"Trauma."

"Ahh, the big t. It's okay, I struggle with insomnia too, Kat forces me to sleep." He kisses my forehead. "You make me feel safe."

"I'm glad you feel other things than afraid when you think of me." A mumble as though he is ashamed to say it, to think it.

"If I didn't feel anything then I would have been so angry. I was angry because I thought I fell for someone that did not exist." He caresses my face

"Do you think you could love the man I am?"

"I love the man you are even I hate the things you do, you are not your job, you are a man who loves his mother and values her opinion, a man who takes great care of his Umi, a man who has been nothing but gentle with his girlfriend, sure you killed people but you had your reasons and I am trying to look past that because you are so much more than a murderer, you are Kaiser, my baby daddy." I place a soft kiss on his lips "and I am in love with you." His lips feel so soft and warm, his arms wrap around my back as I deepen the kiss, I missed those feelings of ecstasy, passion and love.