Title: Marriage of Convenience
Author: Moonlight-Sakuras
Pairing: Sess/Rin
Rated: T
Genre: AU
Something you need to know:
In Japan you can live alone from ages 15 or 16. One of the reason is that high school education is not mandatory, and most foster institutions (orphanages) can only house children until they graduate junior high. So at around this age, these people have to leave the institution and they live alone and work or go to high school.
Chapter I
Doe brown eyes snapped open to look upon the cream painted ceiling of her room. A dainty hand brushed away sweat glistened bangs away from her sleep clustered eyes, before wiping away the excess tears caused by the dream she had before she turned her head to look at the digital clock on her nightstand to check the time. 8:45am. Sighing in weariness, she threw her head back on to her pillow in frustration before throwing the covers off of her sweaty body. Pushing herself up and out of bed she made her way towards the bathroom that was across the room, pushed open the door, and turned on the lights before walking towards the bathroom mirror.
Koizumi Rin stared at her reflection in the mirror for a moment before turning around and heading towards the shower, not wanting to look at the beaten up person staring back at her anymore than she had to. The nightmare she had right before she woke up was more like a memory you just want to forget and never remember again, than a dream that scared the wits out of you, but you ended up forgetting about it by the end of the day. She's had that memory-like dream for months after her parents and brother's death before they only occurred on a single day, on one month, once every year–on the anniversary of their deaths. The days leading up to the anniversary were like a living nightmare for her and she only made it through life on autopilot before she just collapsed into a heap of limbs and tangles on her bed when the day ended. The day she lost her family had been the most traumatizing thing she has ever experienced in all of her nineteen-almost twenty-years of life.
They had decided to go celebrate the last day of school and the start of summer when a drunk driver had ended up crashing into her family's car and serving them off the road. Her mother had died on impact, since the car had ended up crashing on to her side, while her father and brother lasted long enough to get her out of the burning car-despite their injuries-and had passed away by the time the paramedics arrived. She, although with a broken neck and a couple of broken and fractured bones, ended up surviving that night. And to make matters worst she had been put into foster care the moment she had been discharged from the hospital since, at the time, she was only twelve and didn't have the means to support herself. She had no legal guardian or immediate family members she or the government could contact, and while she did have an aunt on her mother's side of the family, her mother and her had lost contact before she had married her father and moved halfway across the world, so contacting her was out of the picture. And, while her father had been a wealthy individual he had been an only child with decreased parents and no immediate family he knew of, so they had no choice but to put her into an orphanage. So after years of being shifted from home to home, and staying emotionless throughout the whole process, she was more than happy when she turned fifteen and was able to leave the orphanage and start her life over again.
Shaking her head to rid herself of those depressing thoughts, Rin turned off the water from the shower before leaving the bathroom for her room. She walked towards her walk-in closet and picked out a pair of matching black undergarments, a tight black knee-length skirt, a white blouse with ruffles, and a pair of black low heeled wedges and laid them out on her bed, before she grabbed her undergarments and put them on, and wiggled into her clothes. Walking towards her vanity, Rin sat down, applied on a light amount of makeup-mascara, eyeliner, and lip gloss-before pulling all of her waist length black coloured hair into a high ponytail, leaving only her bangs out so that it could frame her face. Once finished Rin looked at herself in the mirror–really looked at herself-and was surprised at the person that stared back at her.
The quiet girl with no hint of a smile on her face, staring back at her was a stranger to even her. The constant twinkle she had in her eyes and the smile that could brighten any room when she was younger was gone; the incident that changed her life had erased all memories of ever being happy without the onslaught of tears and angst cries into the night, in those months she dealt with the pain by hiding behind an emotionless mask and never showing her tears to anyone, and that character has followed her to today. Rin knew the girl in the mirror staring back at her was her, but she was still surprised she couldn't find the will to act like the cheerful person she always is and act like she was naïve of everything that's happening in the world today. Today, all she wanted to do was crumple up and die, never to show her face again so that she won't have to go through this ever again.
Most of the time she was only acting like an optimistic individual who had no care in the world, but the act usually fell on the 27th day of May, the anniversary of her family's death. With a sigh Rin stood up before smoothing down her skirt and straighten her blouse before slipping on her shoes and heading out her bedroom door, down the long hallway that passed the guest rooms, study, kitchen and living room, before walking out the door and into the elevator.
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