Okay, now this just sucks.

"Damn it, what am I doing!?" I muttered to myself as I hurriedly pull up my panties from the ground. This isn't the first time I'm doing something like this, but this time it's just so embarrassing.

Goddamnit, Mei! Never thought you and Yomiya will get it on this fast!

Honestly, I wasn't really that serious when I gave her 'the advice', I never thought she'll took it seriously, especially a person like her!

Is she just that clueless or that desperate?

Anyhow, I'd better get out of here.

Being wet at 'that' part of my body sure isn't making moving my legs any easier.


After ages passed, I finally arrived at the convenience store.

I walked around the shop, trying to find some snacks for tomorrow beach picnic, but the next thing I know, I accidentally ended up at the worst place I could be at.

"Er, miss?"

The young storekeeper spoke up, I turned to face her, she's looking at me with a concerned look on her face.

"Yes?"

"Do you want to, um, you know, buy those things?" She pointed at the shelf in front of me.

It was a porn magazines shelf.

Aw, hell!

"EEK! Sorry! I'll be moving now!" I bluntly said, before hurriedly walking away as fast as possible, leaving the storekeeper with a confused look on her face.

"What the hell am I doing!?" I mumbled to myself while I tried to choose some drinks to buy in the glass fridge.

As I was looking, I noticed something on the glass.

I saw a reflection of myself, my face was bright red.

WHAT IS THIS!?

The realization doesn't help one bit, it just made my face turned redder.

Arg! I can't stand this anymore!

I ran out of the store, but then a voice called onto me.

"Hey you! You haven't paid for your groceries, miss!"

"AHHH!" I screamed.

What's wrong with me!?


Half an hour later, I barely managed to return to the resort alive.

"What took you so long?" Kouichi asked as I walked into the room, dropping my things, and fell on the bed.

"Nothing! Just, um, I've ran into...something...interesting." I somberly spoke, trying to choose the words carefully. It's not every day you could accidentally run into two of your best friends having their private time, well, unless they're sex maniacs, but who am I kidding? I'm not gonna speak it out loud!

"Uh huh." Kouichi just nodded, his eyes don't even turn away from the horror book he's reading.

Damn it, that was the final straw!

"What's wrong with you, you idiot!?" I yelled at my excuse-of-a-boyfriend on the bed, which finally managed to make him close his book and stared at me with a horrified look.

"W-what are you talking about!?"

I clenched my fists. "Just look at yourself, Kouichi! What's gotten into you!? You never acted like this before!"

"B-but, there's nothing..."

"Don't lie to me! I know something's troubling you, Kouichi, and I demanded to know what it is! Because if something's troubling you, it's troubling me as well! We're a couple, for god's sake! Why won't you tell me!?"

One way or another, I'm going to get that truth out of him, tonight.

Kouichi, who finally seems to realized that there's no way he's gonna get away from this, sighed deeply.

"So it's finally come to this, Izumi..."

Suddenly, his face expression turned. One moment before, he still had that horrified look on his face, but now that face has a grim, serious expression on it, almost made me scared of him.

"I've been planning to tell you about this for a while now, but I just...I don't want to trouble you..."

"Tell me." I said, even though I'm sure that something he's going to say won't be something good.

Please, Kouichi, anything but...

"...Let's break up, Izumi."

...that.

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.

.

I stood paralyzed, my mind just went blank. It's as if somebody just took a cold glass shard and pierce it into me.

"Listen Izumi, I can ex-"

SLAP!

Without thinking, my hand just moved on its own. Next thing I know, there's a large, red hand-shaped bruise on Kouichi's left cheek.

"H-how could you..."

I tried to speak, tried to find some words, something, that could get my mind off this topic, but it just made me angrier.

"I...I thought you loved me!" I shouted, my eyes started to tear up. "You promised that you'll always love me!"

"And I do!" Kouichi shouted back. "I'll always love you, Izumi! But...it's just...something's just doesn't feel right between us."

"WHAT IS IT!?" I screamed. "WHAT IS IT ABOUT ME THAT YOU DON'T LIKE!? WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME!?"

Suddenly, the answer to that question was clear to me. It's always been there all along...

"It's...it's Mei, isn't it?" I finally said. "You still loved her...don't you?"

Kouichi looked down on the floor, probably feeling ashamed.

"...I did tell you," He began "I'm not the Kouichi you know. From where, I mean, from when I came from...we're...we're married, me and Mei. She loved me, and I loved her. We've been living together for so long, but then after...after everything happened, and I ended up here, everything's changed so much..."

He paused for a bit to lift his face up, before staring at me.

"I...I got a chance...a chance to start it all over. I...you know that, I've failed you once, Izumi, and I'm not looking forward for the second time. It's...it's so confusing. I...first there's Yomiya, who's madly in love with Mei, the girl I once loved, but she's no longer the same person I know...and there's you. I wanted to start it all over with you, but my...past...just won't leave me behind."

Kouichi sat on the bed, his face saddened.

"B-but what's wrong with starting over?" I asked, trying to make my voice gentle as much as possible. This is a serious stuff, I must be calmer. "This isn't the same world from where you come from, Kouichi. There's nothing to worry at all."

"You can't just reset everything, Izumi." He said. "And...damn it, you know what's the real thing that made me feel uncomfortable with you? I'm in my late twenties now, mentally, while you and others are still in your nineteen and stuffs! It's like dating my own daughter! Hell, I even gave my daughter your name! This is just so wrong on so many levels!"

Kouichi's voice started breaking. He covered his face with his hands.

"I know, this is a stupid discussion, but...it means everything to me. What if everything I did was wrong? What if all of this wasn't meant to be my life? It's..."

At that point, he couldn't go on anymore.

"Hey, hey." I started moving close on him, trying not to startle him or making him upset.

"I know, it's a pretty difficult thing to decide, being a weirdo like you..." I began. "But you've been living too long under all those stress and pain, Kouichi. It's time for you to let it all go. Just for once, do anything you want. Let all logic aside, no matter how wrong or how fucked-up it is."

I held my hands with Kouichi's, and pull it away, revealing a tearful face.

"Just for this one time, do what you've always wanted to do..."

I wrapped my arms behind Kouichi's back, and bringing him closer.

"...And I know you wanted this, Kouichi..." I gently said, our faces getting closer.

And then our lips met.


Editor's note: Sorry for the long update, guys!

So yeah, this will probably be my ONLY lemon fic I'm gonna write for the rest of my life...I'm just so bad at this stuffs. I just wanted to do a good storytelling and so far I'm not doing a really good work on it...

Well, better try something new once in a while, right?

If you're confused about the whole 'where/when Kouichi came from' thing, I'd suggest you go read my other Another fic, Another Beginning. It'll explain everything. Thanks for reading, guys! Reviews and criticisms are welcomed, as always.

Next chapter soon.