Chapter 4: The Him, She Didn't Know

It was raining outside and the pink-haired girl sat in boredom, watching her reflection staring back at her with the same bored expression. It was already a week after the purple-haired guy came and gave her the three stem of orchids. The said flowers still reside inside the glass vase, waiting their time to decay.

Just like the flowers, Luka became uninteresting except in front of her guests, she was a pro and always be, but behind the mask of professional, she was no different than a gloom girl.

She shifted her sight to the purple flowers, and remembers things that happened after she went back from the club to one of her lovers' arms.


"What happened to you? Your eyes are swollen, did you cry?" Her lover lights the cigarette while shifting his body under the blanket.

It took him an hour to recognize her condition.

"It's nothing, just lack of sleep," She lied.

"Really? Hmm…working at night surely tired you…"

Luka eliminated her feeling to cuddle with him under the blanket. Her hollow heart screamed to be filled even though she just went through a steamy night, somehow it wasn't enough.

"I need to go"

Her lover's voice made her back to reality, the guy already in half clothes, preparing another day with his wife or whoever he wanted to and Luka ended alone in the large bed of her apartment.


"One long island ice tea for beautiful lady…," A familiar voice startled her.

"Kaito-kun, you surprised me…"

"I'm sorry, but your looks indicated that you're dying, where's my cheerful and confident Luka-chan?" He put the glass on the make-up table and Luka eyeing it. "My treat," He added with sweet smile.

Luka sighed and take a sip, "Thank you…my brain is fully loaded with crap thought, I just need to sort them and I will be back"

"I hope so too," He silenced. "…are there any possibilities that you think about that guy?"

Luka choked when she heard the innocent question from the blue-haired man beside her. She must calm herself down before she asked him back. "Wha…What makes you thinking about such question?"

"Nothing…I mean after you met him a week ago, you started to act weird"

"Well…there's so many reason not only him…," She mumbled.

"Eh! Are you falling in love to him?" Somehow he concluded that by himself.

"Eh?"

"He looks like a good guy, forget all your lovers, get serious with this one…," He tapped Luka's shoulder and beamed a bright smile.

Seriously, there was something broke on his nerve. Somehow Luka started to think that Kaito is in the same circle with the purple-haired guy – weird.

"I…I am not…"

"It's a good news, I'll tell Mei-chan," He stood and left Luka's changing room as fast as he can.

"Ka…Kaito-kun wait a minute!"


Meiko was grinning so wide when she met her. It made her uneasy, that stupid boyfriend of her must have told her anything untrue.

"Take off that grin from your face please…," She glared.

"No need to feel the shame, I know that you've been touched by that three orchids, he's a nice guy…," She sighed in dreamy attitude.

"Did you just mocking me?"

"Nope, ma'am…by the way, did you already managed to think about apologizing gift for him?"

"Apologizing gift? What for?"

"You!" She pointed her index finger at her. "Don't be so ignorant, you know you made him hurt with your words"

Feels cornered, Luka decided to defense herself. "I…I'm gonna give him flower back when he's here!"

"Do you need me to search the suitable flowers? You need to apologize through it too, yes?"

Luka had no choice, her best friend – even though she was kind of rude – really understood this kind of things, maybe it was the merit of dating a book worm.

"Yes, help me…," She mumbled and Meiko chuckled.

"Now go to the customers, they need to be accompanied with…"

She walked away from her shelter, while she still can hear Meiko talked to someone on the phone. She sighed – time to put on her mask again and what a surprise she got when the purple-haired guy already there, sitting timidly and once he saw her, he swayed his hands as if she was a kilometer away from him.

Meiko, how dare she didn't tell me anything!

She sat beside him who still smiling like there was nothing happened last week, it made her uneasy.

"How are you, Luka-chan?"

"I'm fine…," She diverted her gaze anywhere, as long as she didn't have to face the guy straight in the eye.

Silence…

"It's okay…," He relaxed himself, leant on the couch while a glass of alcohol on his hand.

"Eh?" She noticed the alcohol.

"I didn't think about your feeling at first, I must be so bothering you…I think about it, maybe I should stop," He took a sip.

Wasn't that he said, he doesn't drink alcohol?

"Why do you drink it if you already understand that I get burdened?" She took the glass off his hand, and put it on the table.

"I need to drink sometimes, it's just my work getting me on depresse…," He stopped and Luka stunned when she saw the droplets of tears fell from his eyes.

"A…are you…," She raised her right hand on reflex basis.

"Oh no…dust is getting on my eyes, I'm sorry…"

For the first time of her life she felt extremely guilty on what she had done and said. She never thought that her doing will make someone crying like this. Well – maybe he was too sensitive but still it made her feel so bad.

"…C-cry baby…," Instead of a cheering sentence, it was the only thing that left her mouth.

"I-I am not!" He defended himself, while his hands busy to remove the trail of tears on his cheek.

"You are, you're crying because I said something to you last week, eh?" She challenged him.

He bit his lower lip "It's true, why you had to be so mean to me?" He blew his nose to get rid the snot in it to his handkerchief. "I wonder there was no man who wants you to be dead because of your foul mouth!"

"What did you saaaaayyy?"

"Stop it you two!"

Meiko glared at Luka, with her piercing gaze Luka understood that Meiko sort of said 'you must apologize not making another war with him'. She sighed and lean her back to her first position.

"I'm sorry Kamui-san, Luka is in her bad mood…can you wait for a second?"

"Mmm…"

Meiko gone to the back of the club to pick something and came back with a bouquet of flowers. The bouquet on her hands was in shade of purple and she shoves the flowers to Luka's hands while her lips whispered something that only Luka can hear.

"Apologize and give this to him," Somehow Meiko said it in threatening tone.

Meiko bent to the purple-haired guy with her business smile and once again disappear. Luka eyeing the flower suspiciously, she hoped that Meiko didn't put foul meaning flowers to the bouquet.

"Actually this was her idea, here…apologizing gift"

"You didn't sound like someone who apologize"

"Wha-," Luka felt the stabbing gaze from behind her – Meiko still supervised her from the shadow. "Well…I'm sorry…," She bowed.

Actually, her act was out of Meiko expectation. To see Luka bowed for apologizing was something so rare, Luka was a girl full of pride and usually she doesn't want to admit her wrongdoing.

He took the flowers from her hands and smiled. "I accept your apologize…," He brushed her hair softly, the same warm hand that touch her head a week ago.

"I-it's nothing…," She tried to hide her blush.

"Well too bad that I decided to give up on you, since I don't want you to be burdened…," He scratched his nose.

"I-If…," She gulped. "You can continue if you like to," she crossed her hands in front of her chest, put on her arrogance stance once again.

"Eh? What made you change your mind?"

"No-nothing…"

Another silence…

Ugh…this is awkward…

"I'm glad you let me to know you better…," He smiled. "I have something to you as a present, but I doubt that you want to take it, since I made it horribly…besides the 'give up' thing…," He smiled sheepishly.

"Eh? Made by you?"

"Yes, this whole week, I tried to do it based on tutorial, but it seems I failed…"

"Let me see it!"

"Well…," He pulled out something from his bag and gave it to her. Just now she realized how many band aid he put on his fingers.

She diverted her gaze from his fingers to the present, a small cell phone strap in the shape of her. She bit her lower lip and wrapped her palm on the small and messy present.

"Like I said, it's messy; I didn't dare to give it to you…"

She shook her head and gave her first serene smile to him, "No…it's pretty, thank you Gakupo-kun"


She already inside her changing room and once again, stared at the mirror in front of her. Just by meeting him, the gloom her already gone and exchange with her normal self.

She couldn't forget the expression of that guy when she gave him her smile and thank for the gift, he actually asked her to smile again and called his name. His act started to annoy her, but once her 'punch' threat slipped out of her lips, he became silent.

"Baka…," She mumbled and put her head on the table while swinging the strap that already attached to her cell phone.


The music was getting louder as he stepped in to the crowd; some of them greeted him while they keep busying themselves on the dance floor. He smiled and greets them back; his feet keep leading him to a certain place inside the clubhouse – an exclusive lounge that reside next to the black shiny grand piano.

"Where have you been?" The cold tone greets him when he stepped in.

"Don't be so mean Kiyo nii-san…"

He smiles sheepishly when he met the cold gaze from the older man. He didn't even take his seat yet because his piercing eyes offended his presence. He knew very well that he was at fault since he left their business without telling his older brother.

Well, not really older brother but put it aside from now, since Gakupo already prepared himself to face his wrath.

"Left without notice, I wonder what will father said to you…besides, you're no longer a child, and you have responsibility for our group's sake"

"Aaaah, I don't want it, you can take it nii-san," He dropped himself to the couch, ignoring his brother's still intense gaze and cold tone.

"I don't want it either," he corrected his glasses and just when they got silence, someone behind the curtain showed up, brought a cup lemon tea for the oldest guy.

"Ahh~ Gaku-nii...welcome back"

"I'm home Len-kun, hmm how about…you told father to give the responsibilities to Len-kun?" He pushed his luck for the billionth times.

"WHAT? NO WAY," Both of them protested and resulted incoherent mumble and grunts from the purple-haired guy.

While listening to his elder brothers debating, Len noticed something that lied beside Gakupo; he stared at the bouquet intently while his brain registered the lists of flower names.

"Gaku-nii, who gave you this bouquet?"

"Ah, I forgot to tell you, the orchids you suggested me before was full of success, and the result is this bouquet," He brought the flower on his hands and examined it. "I didn't know why you suggest the orchids"

"What is this all about?" The eldest interfered and it made the second child feels the chill on his back.

"Gaku-nii asked me to tell him the suited flower for a stubborn girl"

The eldest face became brighter at Len's statement, "Well…well…," He smirked.

"Shut up nii-san…well Len-kun, can you tell me what does this bouquet consists of and what does the meaning behind it?"

Len examined the bouquet once again, "Hmm, This is Purple Hyacinth it has the meaning of apologizing and while the other is Lady's Slipper which mean 'Capricious beauty and win me', are you fall in love with an arrogant girl, Gaku-nii? She challenges you…"

"In love?" He laughed whole heartedly and walked away with the bouquet still on his hands and dropped it to the nearest trash bin, as if it was nothing. He gave the cold stare at his two brothers, his purple eyes grew darker as the light went dimmer and the loud music ended. "Both of you know what kind of man I am, right?"

~to be continued~


A/N: The title held no lie

Hiyama Kiyoteru and Len for his bro

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