File 1: Ghost of a Chance part 2
-A few days earlier-
"Mai." Naru called from his office.
She quickly got up and walked to Naru's office, grateful that there's something for her to do besides just sit at the counter waiting for some poor soul to walk through the door and beg for Naru's help only to get turned down just because the case wasn't interesting enough so she would have to convince him, either by denying him tea or being super annoying till he accepted. Office life could be so dull.
"Yes?" she answered.
He was so engrossed with the file he was looking at that he hadn't noticed her come in even after he himself called her. But rather than reading, he was thinking.
"Naru?" she asked again walking up to his desk.
He looked up and for a second was surprised she was there. "Tea," he said, remembering himself.
"Would a 'please' kill you?"
"Not a risk I'm willing to take."
With an angry grunt Mai walked out of the room and into the kitchen, drawing the attention of a certain silent typing addict.
He went in to check up with his charge. Seeing as he was having a staring contest with an item bearing 'i's rather than 'eyes', Lin interrupted, "You really should be nicer to her; she spends so much of her time here when she could be out with her friends like normal teenagers."
Naru just glared at him. Content that his message hit home, Lin walked back to his computer and continued typing.
In the kitchen, Mai was deciding what kind of tea she should give Naru. If she gave the same one too many times or brewed the wrong one at the wrong time, she felt like she had failed one of her only jobs. It's not like he ever noticed, but she thought she should put in the effort.
Having chosen one to her satisfaction, she started the tea making process. It didn't take long.
After pouring the liquid into a cup, she picked it up and began walking it to its new owner. As she walked, she noticed that a piece of her skirt had gotten caught on one of the drawers. She tried pulling it out but nothing changed other than a small tear had appeared in the pink fabric. She tried pulling the drawer out, but the edge of her skirt was wedged in the track making it impossible do to the impeccable handy work of the person who put the stinking thing together.
But even though the draw was immoveable, her skirt was another story. All her tugging caused the small tear to become a slightly bigger tear and that became an even bigger tear.
Now, anyone else might have noticed the progressing problem here; anyone who has ever played tug-of-war with a large dog would have realized what was about to happen. But not our little Mai, no, she gave it one last hefty tug. As she did, her skirt came free of the fragment and lost balance causing a big crash, a broken cup, and more than a few injuries.
Next thing she knew, Naru was in the door smirking at her.
"Get your skirt caught in the drawer again?" he questioned
"Yeah… It wasn't my fault, though!"
An eyebrow rose, "Oh? Why not?"
"It's not!" she looked at the tear. "And it was one of my favorites, too."
Sighing, he walked over to her, pulled her up and examined the damage. He opened the first aid kit Lin had dropped off and went to work. Because of the accident prone Mai, He had become quit skilled at playing nurse, not that he needed much practice in the first place.
"Really, how do you get into so many accidents?"
"It's not like I do it on purpose."
"That's the definition of the word 'accident', Mai."
"Well, I don't," She pouted.
"Really? I think you might. That way you get a hansom guy like be to patch you up."
"I do not!"
"Really?" he inched closer, "is that the truth?"
She began to blush which made Naru smirk and turned back to tending to Mai's battle scars.
In the other room they heard a customer walk in.
Mai's instinct was to go and welcome the customer but Naru stopped her saying Lin would take care of it.
Next thing they knew the kitchen door was being shoved open and there stood Madoka in all her glory, her long tanned skirt still swaying with the wind created by the door wining open.
"Koujo said you were in here, Mai."
"Madoka!" Mai, cheered trying to wiggle out of Naru's grasp to greet her friend with a hug.
"Mai, stay still or it'll hurt more," he said grasping tighter to her wrist causing her to cringe. "Hold still," he repeated.
"Ah, Naru's worried for you, Mai," Madoka cheered, ignoring the glares.
"I haven't seen you in forever!" Mai, exaggerated.
"Since Naru came home from England, right?" She noticed the small cuts and dampened cloths on the small girl, "did you have another accident while making Naru's tea?" she joked
"Yea," Mai laughed, "I did. How was your trip?"
Madoka, after Naru had come back from England, also spent some time over there visiting Naru's parents, Luella and Martin. The purpose of her visit was to top secret she said; Lin probably knew. In fact, Mai was sure he did know, and he wasn't telling. That man is one good secret keeper.
The girls continued to joke and share stories as if the male-nurse wasn't there.
Suddenly Madoka became serious, "Naru, I have a case for you."
And that's chapter two I have always respected Madoka. She's so strong and cheerful. She's one of the few who stand up to Naru and keep him in check. I think her and Lin are so perfect together 3 hahah, and now I'm fangirling, haha.
Have any of you heard Xia's new single called Uncommitted? I love it; I'm addicted. Wow. Anyway thanks a bunch :) Much love–Elda Ahern