My fiancé is in love with another girl. I heard it today.
Valentines Day is supposed to be a love-filled day. Since I was pretty good at cooking, I wanted to make Tora homemade chocolate. Using the fanciest and most expensive supplies (naturally, my parents wouldn't let me get cheap stuff anyway), I created a heart-shaped chocolate. I added details, like words with frosting and the sort.
We had been engaged since the day we were born. I was nervous at first, but he was a perfect gentleman. Or... so I thought. He had a Kansai dialect (like me!) and was... apparently really rude.
But the way he managed to keep up the gentleman image really made me admire him.
I fell in love.
Anyway, I wanted to personally give it to Tora, so I went to his house. He and Maki were in the garden, talking over tea.
I decided to eavesdrop.
"... Chiyo-san will be coming over later to bring chocolate, right?" Maki was saying. "Knowing her, it'll be very professional."
"Unlike her, right?" Tora laughed. "Completely un-ladylike. She can't dance, knows aikido, and punches guys when they annoy her. Her cooking sucks, too."
I felt my heart skip a beat. Who was "her"?
"I seriously advise you to stop thinking about Seiya's student council president," Maki said.
"Just call her by her name, Maki," Tora said with his sharp-toothed grin. "President Ayuzawa, right?"
Ayu...zawa?
"President," Maki reminded, "you have a fiancé."
"It was something my parents forced me into," Tora said with a yawn. "I honestly couldn't care less."
"President Ayuzawa is quite poor," Maki added. "Her looks are average. Please make better decisions."
He doesn't like her for money? I thought, my pulse quickening. Or looks? He really loves her?
"I know can make her rich, right?" Tora snapped. "But she actually turned down the money and dress I offered her! Well, that's what makes her interesting."
"You realize her boyfriend is richer than you, right?" Maki said. "Of course she'd chose Usui-san."
"You make her sound like a gold digger," Tora said, glaring. "She didn't know he was rich when she fell for him."
I didn't want to hear more. I went straight home after that. I didn't talk to Tora. I didn't want to see him. I didn't want to give him the chocolate I had spent hours making.
I had my chauffeur drive me home. I thought a lot during the ride.
It was an arranged marriage. He never showed any form of affection towards you. Tora... loves someone else.
xxxxx
"You couldn't care less?" I said, remembering Tora's words as tears rolled down my cheeks.
I snapped off a corner of the chocolate and put it in my mouth.
"Dark chocolate," I realized. I guess I had messed up somewhere.
Maybe it was good I didn't give it to him... I thought. I took another bite.
"So bitter..." I said quietly as my tears slowly dried up.