April 14,2010
Mai awoke with a horrible migraine. The alarm clock only making it worse. She sat up on her bed and glanced at the time. She was late. She got the clothes she had placed on the rocking chair by to her bed, and ran to the bathroom. She took a quick shower and dressed in a hurry. She grabbed some painkillers; some toast; and a cup of hot coffee and left her apartment in a rush. She ran to the subway and waited anxiously for her ride. Once it came, she hopped in and relaxed to a smooth melody she had in her ipod. She was late already, why stress out anymore? When she arrived at Shibuya street, she ran to the office and entered the room quietly.
"Mai tea!" she heard her daily greeting. And so the routine started itself all over again. She went to the small kitchen and prepared Naru's daily dose of vitamin tea, fighting the temptation of spitting in it (or better yet, poison it). She put the tea on the tray and made her way to Naru's office. She knocked once and then entered after hearing a low grunt. Oh how she hated him, or so she hopes.
"Mai, late again. Tsk, Tsk." Naru said shaking his head in disapproval. Still, he did not lift his gaze from the computer screen.
Mai growled at his comment, but a sudden knock at the door got her side tracked. She turned her gaze to the door and exited his office slamming the door shut behind her.
"Monk!" she exclaimed running towards the rock band base player.
The monk lifted her into the air and put her in a head lock, rubbing her head and messing up her hair. It was okay with her, though. Her hair required low maintenance.
"Monk - can't - breath!" the petite brunet managed to get out.
"Oh, sorry kid." Bou-san apologized letting go.
Once Mai had fixed her hair, she noticed four familiar faces smiling at her (well, except for Masako, who hates her guts). Mai smiled back warmly.
Yasu came forth and wrapped his arm around Monk's waist. A sweat bead slid down Monk's face and he laughed nervously getting out of his grip.
"Oh come on, Monkey. Mai won't judge us. We could come out of the closet now, move to Mexico, and adopt ten kids!" Yasu said puckering his lips at poor Monk.
Monk let out a yelp and ran to hide behind Ayako, who was laughing so hard that her ribcage started hurting - the same went for Mai.
John, however, tried not to laugh. If this was true, he would have to exorcise both of them.
Masako hid her smile behind her kimono sleeve and started giggling quietly.
Suddenly, the door to Naru's office swung open and out came a totally pissed off narcissist. Mai had to get off of the floor. Ayako hit Monk on the back of his head with a well coordinated swing of her purse. Monk jumped back with a painful groan and rubbed his head. Everyone stood motion less, terrified about what was going through Naru's head.
Lin came out of his office next, and Naru turned his attention to him. Everyone let out a sigh of relief.
"Naru, it's Madoka." Lin informed him, handing over the phone.
"No need, Lin, I'll take it in my office." Naru said rejecting the offering. He went to his desk and picked up the phone.
"Noll?" Madoka asked on the other line.
"Hai. What do you want?" Naru responded coldly.
"It's your mother. Luella has been acting rather odd due to the fact that it's that time of year again." Madoka sounded worried. Naru didn't pay much attention though.
"Will she be okay?" Naru asked, this time there was a bit of worry in his voice. He hated to be reminded. He hated this time of year. But most of all, he hated how much he missed and cared for his brother. It had been almost two years since his death, and he could still feel the pain he had experienced in his dream when he lived Eugene's death.
" I don't think it's life threatening or anything, but I think she'd feel a lot better to feel her last son's presence there near her." Madoka said, trying to persuade Noll to be there for his mother in her time of need.
"Madoka, you take care of Luella. I still haven't found Gene's body, so my job here isn't quite finished yet."
"But-"
"GOODBYE!" Naru slammed the phone down. "Mai tea!" Naru ordered from his office rubbing his temples.
About fifteen minutes later, he heard a gentle knock at the door.
"Come in." he sighed fixing his posture. Mai came in and laid the tea down on his desk next to his pale hand. She stood there for a good thirty seconds waiting for a thank you.
"I know I'm handsome, Mai, but please try your best to look away." Naru said looking up from the screen smirking.
A blush crept up Mai's neck and she said "For your information: I was just waiting for a 'Thank You'. But I could see it won't be coming anytime soon." She started heading for the door, but she didn't leave without mumbling the words "Stupid Narcissist!" under her breath.
She looked so cute when she was angry.
(A/N: If you guys are barely reading this and I already have more chapters written down, PLEASE REVIEW for all of them. Also, this is a funny chapter. The rest will be filled with exciting and blood curdling case, I promise. A few chapters will have funny grammar, but that's only because when I started writing, I didn't know that I had to start a knew paragraph when a knew person is speaking. This goes on until chapter eight or so. But it has been brought to my attention and I have improved my writing. I came back and edited chapter one & two, but then i got lazy. GoMeN. ^-^