A/N: This is just something I made, because I'm bored. HEHEHE please don't take it seriously and it's just a work of fiction.
Have fun reading.
I do not own Maria-sama Ga Miteru characters.
Roses Hour
Rei and Sachiko were on their way to the rose mansion when greeted by flocks of fans to both Roses.
"Gokigenyou Rosa Chinensis, Rosa Foetida." Greeted by certain group of students.
"Gokigenyou." From both Roses, bowed and left them immediately. Further down the road they heard them squealing. Sachiko and Rei can't help but look to those students who made noises.
"Rei," Sachiko begins. "Am I that scary?"
"No. I think they're worshiping you. But since you are their idol, they like to put distance to preserve the way you are. Like a full bloom Red Rose." Rei's humour.
"That's preposterous. It's only your assumption. I didn't ask to be worship or idolize. I wish they'd just think of me as a normal person, not a delicate flower." Sachiko complained.
"It can't be help, Ogasawara Sachiko is the star of Lillian. Thanks to the Newspaper club, you are that famous and you are that scary – the perfect, unappeasable, enviable and beautiful princess." Rei smirked.
"You are making fun of me." Sachiko's eyes turned to slits and pouted. "So let's drop that subject about my behavior. I am well aware of my image to the public eye."
"As you wish milady." Rei continued to tease.
"I was wondering what you are going to do after you graduate college." Sachiko puzzled not particularly asking a question.
"Work I guess. What about you Sachiko? Are you really going to marry Kashiwagi-san?" Rei asked.
"I have no choice on that matter." Sachiko said then sighed.
They've arrived at the mansion and it was silent, no soeurs around. Yumi, Yoshino and Shimako have dance lessons in their second year. Noriko's class has gym. Only Sachiko and Rei for the moment and somehow the two of them felt the same emptiness.
"It's very quiet. Yumi-chan really brings joy and liveliness to this place. Imagine if you haven't had a soeur Sachiko, what would Yamayurikai feel like?" Rei wondered.
"It would be… very lonely." Sachiko felt that those words hurt so much. Yumi is very important to her. Though it was only a coincidence that they meet and bump into each other, looking back, those days were most fun for Sachiko. She always feel free around Yumi, which is why without her, is emptiness and loneliness.
"Ne, Sachiko, if you have a choice on the matter, would you really marry Kashiwagi-san?" Rei ask again. She knew Sachiko hated men and Suguro is not an exception.
"No. I would rather live my life like it is now. Grow old together with everyone. I don't need a husband to provide for me. I am able to do that myself." Sachiko told her honest answer. "I'd like to do things on my own. Not be bound with my family name or determine my social standing or the duty to keep my distance from everyone because of public image." She sighed heavily. She wants real friends, but because she is trained Sachiko lacks that kind of relationship. She felt caged.
"What about you Rei, are you going to marry someday?" Sachiko asked.
"I don't know. Truth be told, there's no more room in my heart for that kind of relationship or love. Yoshino is all I need and I am contented with what I have." Rei expressed her feelings.
"Are you some kind of a mother or a lover?" Sachiko giggled.
"I tried not to be a mother. Does that leave me to be a lover?" Rei chuckled.
"Nani Rei, you have that kind of feelings for Yoshino?" Sachiko questioned her friends' sexuality. This is catholic school and she thought Sei was the oddball.
"Wakaranai…" Rei massage her temples. "It's not like I can't live without Yoshino. But ever since young my whole life revolves around her. I love her more than my parents, probably. I would rather not choose. She completes me, when I'm down she's there for me. She's my strength, my inspiration to move on, if you know what I mean. The point is, as long as she's around, I won't need anybody else."
"Ouch. Does that mean you don't need me?" Sachiko feigned hurt.
"No, you are a friend and I'll always be grateful. But if you have to choose between me and Yumi to be there for you when you needed a shoulder to cry on, who would you choose?" Rei asked.
"I'm sorry. I see your point. But I would be there for you if you ask me to. And to answer your question, I want Yumi to be there for me. You are right, as long as Yumi is there, I wouldn't probably ask for Onee-sama or you or Yoshino or anybody else. I understand how you feel." Sachiko nodded as if understanding herself better.
"Do you really understand? You seem to be confused with your own feelings too." Rei teased.
"What do you mean by that?" Sachiko look puzzled, she knows herself better than anyone else, and why would Rei say that.
"Say Sachiko, what is your ideal man?" Rei questioned her friend. Sachiko can be thick sometimes.
"Don't change the subject. And why would you want to know my ideals? I dislike men." She said with a grimace.
"No, no. Just answer me. If not ideal man… then ideal woman?" Rei laughed. "Sorry just an ideal partner, if you have a chance to choose. What would you like for that person's behavior, traits, skills, talent or the whole image and character?" Rei's curiousness surfaced.
"Hmm. Don't joke around like that." Sachiko on her thinking poses. "I like a person easy to understand, spontaneous and normal. Doesn't need to be rich or good looking, but has to be modest."
Rei looked at Sachiko intently. She confirms it now, Sachiko's pattern of thinking and why she chooses Yumi after all. Or was it Yumi that chose Sachiko and the later discovered that she is happy and love Yumi?
"So then the exact image of Yumi-chan? Are you in love with her?" Rei teased.
"What?!" Sachiko has never thought of it. Maybe she imagine a partner like that but not exactly Yumi. And 'in Love' is that possible? She's a lady inside-out. How can she fall in love with her own petite soeur?
"Easy to understand, modest, cute, spontaneous and lively, sweet and innocent, isn't that how you're going to proceed?" Rei smiled.
"No. There's more. Talented or not it doesn't matter to me, as long that person has a good sense of self. Honest, sincere and patient. Has a charming personality and someone I am comfortable to be with. And should love me." Sachiko reasoned, though her mind is in chaos. Did she see Yumi that way? She never consciously realizes she's describing Yumi.
"You are too funny Sachiko." Rei laughed at her wholeheartedly. "You just told me, it would be lonely without Yumi-chan, and here you are describing your ideals. If not Yumi-chan you were thinking about, then Yuuki-san? Or is that a dog you wanted?" Rei knows Sachiko is hard to please, she will never be comfortable with anyone else aside from the Yamayurikai members. No men can be comfortable with Sachiko either she is almost a perfectionist.
"That's not funny Rei!" Sachiko pouted. Though Rei has a point, Yuuki is not her preference. She's comfortable with Yumi. A dog is not a life time partner. Does it mean that she only considers Yumi? does she looks at Yumi that way? Does she love Yumi that way? Is she 'in love' with Yumi to think of her as an ideal?
"Think about it Sachiko. Will you be able to live without Yumi-chan from now on? To love another and build a family?" Rei just poke Sachiko's sore spot.
"Stop it Rei! I do not have feelings for Yumi that way." Sachiko yelled being stubborn as she is. Though she is having internal battles already. Rei just woken up something inside of her. Something she denied for a long time.
"Okay, fine then. Think of it this way. Yumi-chan will move on someday and you will lose her. There are many circumstances that will come and Yumi won't be there for you anymore. Tell me, will you still be fine? Will you be able to let go like that?" Rei said with a serious face. She knows Sachiko is stubborn and foolish at times. Rei must get Sachiko to take a second look of whose most important person in her life.
"Please stop. I will be fine. I'm sure I can.. manage." Sachiko forced those words out. Her heart is bleeding at the harsh words of truth from Rei. She do love Yumi, but to what extent? When did it start? Perhaps by chance that she realize she has ideals or was it love at first sight. Maybe she loves Yumi from the very beginning and was attracted to her. She just realized the true nature of her LOVE. 'What is essential is invisible to the eye.'
She doesn't want to lose her like that. Yumi showed her different world, a new life. No rules, Yumi is her freedom, her peace, her light on darkest hours, her strength, her joy— her love. Serendipity or Fate. That's why it hurts so much— Loneliness and Loveless life. A life without Yumi is Nothingness.
"Gokigenyou Onee-sama, Rosa Foetida." Yumi entered the room together with Yoshino and Shimako.
"G-go-gokigenyou Yumi." Sachiko startled and faltered for the first time. Sachiko blushed and avoided Rei's eyes and igonre her snickers. Her heart is throbbing uncontrollably fast. Stood there is the object of her affections, right in front of her. Now what to do? She realized what she wanted and who needed in her life. And now she is at a loss on how to tell or show Yumi her innermost feelings. "C'est la vie". She murmured.
The End
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