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Chapter 4

Lettuce was just about to explain when Ryou interrupted.

"Don't worry about." Lettuce could feel his arm move around her waist. Lettuce gave him a confused look. "Lettuce warned me about how annoying your son can be." He gave Lettuce a sweet smile. "My names Ryou Shirogane." with his free hand Ryou offered to shake Mr. Midorikawa's hand.

"And I'm Jirou Midorikawa, Lettuce's farther and this is My wife Kasumi Midorikawa" Mrs. Midorikawa smiled at Ryou while her husband shook his hand.

"Well, we better be heading inside. We don't have anything special because Lettuce didn't tell us you we coming." Mrs. Midorikawa gave her daughter a disappointed smile before heading inside with the rest of her family. Lettuce stepped out of Ryou's reach before turning to look at him.

"What are you doing?" She hissed, making sure nobody was watching. Ryou just shrugged his shoulders.

"Just playing along." His voice was a whisper.

"But we're not dating!" Ryou looked at lettuce with an apologetic expression.

"What else did you expect me to do? Embarrass them by saying that we're not dating?" Judging the look on Lettuce's face he knew the answer.

"Ok, maybe I should have but i would be hurting your parents feelings. If I say that we're not dating then they would feel hurt as well as embarrassed. There happy because they believe that you're happy." Ryou looked at Lettuce who was staring at the floor.

"I suppose that would be weird but now what do we do? What do I say when they expect us to be going out together?"

"Say that we broke up."

"But my dad will kill you! And i would have the whole "you will find someone who loves you someday unlike that jerk you were dating." speech." Lettuce looked into Ryou's eyes. "Why did this have to happen?." She looked at the floor, her hand on her head. Ryou took her head in his hands.

"It will be fine. Trust me." Ryou smiled making Lettuce feel like nothing could possibly go wrong.

"Lettuce and Ryou sitting in a tree. K - I - S - S - I - N - G!" Lettuce's little brother stuck his tongue out at them. Lettuce shot her brother a annoyed glance as he went running back into the house.

"I have a feeling you're going to regret saying that." Lettuce smiled before she found Ryou holding her hand. She could feel her face grow redder.

"We better get on with it." Ryou sighed and looked down at Lettuce's hand in his. Lettuce hand felt so delicate.

Lettuce watched as Ryou looked at their hands connected together. She wondered what he was thinking about.

"Are you two going to stand out here daydreaming or are you going to come inside?" Mrs. Midorikawa popped her head around the front door. Lettuce and Ryou snapped out of their daydream and followed her inside.

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"Here you go!" Mrs. Midorikawa put a tray of refreshments onto the coffee table before sitting with her husband. She smiled at Ryou and Lettuce who were sitting opposite them.

"Thanks Mrs. Midorikawa." Ryou shot her a smile before taking a sip of the herbal tea she had placed in front of him.

"Your welcome. So how did you meet our Lettuce?" Mr. Midorikawa had put an arm around his wife's shoulders. Ryou looked at Lettuce, wondering how her parents would feel if he said that he was her boss and if they even knew where she worked.

"Umm..."

"Well we work together." Lettuce interrupted Ryou. She smiled at him before looking at her family, awaiting their next question.

"We thought that you were a school friend or something. Anyway, how long have you two been going out? I mean you looked pretty close when we first saw you at the front gate. Of course my daughter didn't tell me she had a boyfriend." She shook her head at Lettuce before whispering to Ryou. "But then again I kind of guessed due to the fact that Lettuce always seemed so much happier when you were around." Ryou turned and looked at lettuce who was now a deep shade of red. "It also always seemed like when you were gone she was even daydreaming about you." Lettuce was desperately hoping that her mum would stop talking. Ryou smiled at Lettuce before smiling at Mrs. Midorikawa who was now looking slightly worried. "Please don't hurt her feelings." Ryou was taken aback by this. She obviously cared about her daughter very much. He never dreamed of hurting Lettuce. He wouldn't even let anybody else hurt Lettuce physically or emotionally. Ryou looked straight into Kasumi Midorikawa's eyes.

"I wouldn't dream of hurting your daughter. I would rather get hurt than let someone even say one bad thing to Lettuce." Lettuce looked up at Ryou after hearing these words. Either he is a really good actor or he is telling the truth. Lettuce then looked at her mother who looked reassured.

"Thank you." She said, looking close to tears. Ryou nodded. He had meant what he said. He looked at Lettuce who was smiling.

"It looks like you really love her." Mr. Midorikawa said.

"Of course I do with all my heart." Lettuce began to blush even though she knew that it wasn't true. He seemed so convincing. She looked up at Ryou who, surprisingly, was blushing too. If only he meant what he said. Lettuce looked at the floor.

"Well that's good to know. I only have one more question before we disappear." Mr. Midorikawa glanced at his daughter before looking at Ryou.

"Are you being safe?"

Ryou and Lettuce turned as red as a cherry. They had not been expecting that one.

"What!" Lettuce squeaked.

"I had to ask!"

"We're not that old!"

"You never know nowadays!"

Ryou smiled as the farther and daughter argued. He never got to do that with his farther. "Don't worry. We are not that close."

Mr. Midorikawa sighed with relief. "At least that's all cleared up. Anyway we better let you two have some time alone." And with that, Lettuce's parents left the room.

Lettuce let out a sigh of relief. "Thanks for that." Lettuce looked at Ryou. "You were really convincing."

Ryou shrugged his shoulders. "It was the least I could do. I really better be off." Ryou stood up and walked towards the door. "And Lettuce," Lettuce looked up. "I meant what I said about not hurting you. " The expression on his face told her that he was serious.

"Thank you." Lettuce said as Ryou left.

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