Ehilà! Is there anyone still following this? After more than a year I'm posting the chapter 4, I made a kind of re-editing of chaps 1to3, checking any mistake, which were mostly about grammar. I can finally say I got a rid of my grammar by writing a lot in other platforms, and now I feel more confident. Thanks to all of you for reporting mistakes.
I decided to use the past in the dialogues and the present in the thoughts of Haruka and Michiru, because it's what they think in the moment, even though there is a remembrance. So be careful, it's wanted from me this alternation past-present. Of course keep reporting any mistakes, we are humans and we all make them.
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Enjoy!
Between past and future
POV Michiru
I am twirling around a photograph. It's supposed to be a great satisfaction for me, since I shot it, back in high school, nevertheless it just brings me feelings of heaviness, melancholy and worst of all loneliness. I can't believe it's all over, the happiness once I believed would be forever, now is nothing more than a piece of paper, with no meaning more than a remembrance. I don't even know why I'm holding it.
-I think you should go out.- Akane is here, sitting on the floor at my bed's feet, she stood silent with me for an amount of time I didn't even realise passing by, until she spoke, of course.
The situation was kind of...
Ironic.
Not more than two weeks ago I told her the same thing, about her ex-boyfriend, now, I am in the same situation. I can't find consolation. I am at the phase 4. You know, the phases post-trauma, because yes, mine really is. Put yourself in my underwear, 3years of relationship started from the last year of college full of promises, of fantasies, then-bum, you fall from the clouds on the cool ground, and find out nothing goes as you want. Maybe it was meant to end, or maybe we could have lasted a bit more, at least we could have split up more like... a couple who shared so much together, not in such a bad way. Anyway my always-with-me-And-supportive luck made its best this time.
-In the end, you paid him back. Karma is a bitch.- Akane keeps talking, more like a monologue rather a dialogue, but anyway, she is here for that, support, we don't need many words to understand each other.
Besides, I literally paid him back. I cheated on him, well, technically I cheated on his cheating on me. You know, he cheated on me with nonetheless his best friend not-to-mention one of my most loyal friends. At least she was.
I cheated on his cheating, yes, though telling like that does not make me feel a better person, no, I feel like a creap struggling to get an excuse to justify my cheating. And what a cheat. I am not that much experienced about, you know, a good fuck, but he was so good. When I saw him at the dance party my vision started to blur, I drank too much, I was trying to gain balance, I fell on him, and then... he was so h- creap!
Shout it, Michiru. Do not hyperventilate.
-Hey Michi, are you listening?-
-Yes, just a bit dizzy.-
-Mm, it seems more like you were having hot dreams of someone, do you?- I realise I am blushing.
-Ow, but I just... mm, I Miss Mike.- I pout, I didn't tell her about Haruka, and I'm not into that idea, if she knew she would have probably asked a lot of questions, and in the particulars, too. And I am too embarrassed to do so. I feel even worse now I mentioned Mike again.
-Didn't you tell me you never did anything with Mike, ne?-
Shit. -uhm, no... ew, I just feel warm myself, maybe I have some fever or so.- yes that is.
She eyed me suspiciously. -Right. Uhm, Michi, I have to get going, I have a date, you know.-
-When were you thinking to tell me 'bout that?!- I was a mix of happiness and surprise, of course for my friend; she suffered so much when she lost Carl.
-Don't shout like that, I was looking forward telling you this evening but as I got in here I found you laying on the sofa head on the pillow, arms and legs scattered up and down, I thought you were dead.- And she is right besides the fact I actually am not dead uwu.
-Well don't worry, you can go if you have a date.- I was pretending to be offended. She knows but instead she sends me one of her looks, she is plotting something.
-I was thinking, why don't you get over Mike by letting me introduce you to someone. I could tell Simon to bring someone over. Any preferences..?-
Blond, green eyed, possibly. Where did it come from?
-No thanks but I'm not in a good shape these days. Not to mention my will to get a new boyfriend.- yes, irony flaws from my lips like a waterfall.
-Oh, did you get your new job? How was your interview?-
Oh dear not that again, it has been a week, Mr Tenou told me he would phone me, but no news since that day. What a performance I made back then.
I am saved by the clock, which reminds my friend she is running late.
-Anyway, I'm getting you a pair, so get ready, next time, you'll have a good looking man on a date with me and Simon.- She winks and waves goodbye leaving me to my wondering again. Phase four just doesn't want to go away. The first phase is the indifference, than the anger, the realisation, the depression, that leads to a stronger anger which can become self-destructive, not bad huh? You are wondering than, what's more frustrating: thinking about Mike or Haruka? I don't know either.
I throw my head on my sofa's pillow.
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POV Haruka
Switching off the shower I put a towel around my waist, while running another one throughout my hair, the good thing about having my hair short is that I don't need to dry them. Throwing the same towel around my shoulders I check myself on the huge mirror upon the sink. From that prospective I can see my body from waist to head. A droplet caresses my temple down to my cheek, my neck, clavicle, where it stood, between it and my shoulder muscles. Here it shows a purple mark, that was the same spot where until this morning I could see the faint mark Michiru left me, I smirk because my latest lover probably found out someone else has bitten there, and bit harder as a gift. My smirk soon leaves my lips as I remember about Tamra. That woman is going to torture me, if she finds this out, my father would be the first one to be informed, and my detention would start soon. And his punishment is never light.
It is true I am Haruka Tenou, the great heir of TenouInc, but I also am a son and if my father cannot allow himself to 'fire' me, he can perfectly take away my pleasures.
Focusing on Tamra, I feel like it's all a mask, a script already written, because she, like me, cheats on me too, and I think she knows about my relations with other women, she is just waiting for a proof. Between us there is like a mutual agreement: we can do anything we want when we're not at bed, but whether we decide to hit on other people, that should be done privately so that no one would notice. Our reputation, our mask was more important. It has always been.
-What a creap.- I wonder my gaze from my wet hair to my green eyes, straight nose, thin lips, my jawline, seeing a hint of beard. I should get rid of this. I don't like beard, either my lovers don't, I don't see why I should keep it.
I wonder again my gaze on my neck to my Adam's apple, to my shoulders and my strong chest, abs and so on. I have to go training. Yes a bit of kickboxing should help with this tension stuck in myself from over a week.
I feel unsatisfied. As if that girl, Michiru, a woman like anyone I have been at bed with, opened a hole in my body, I can not find sexual satisfaction. Of course I am the same in bed, I come as usual, just... a hint of something under my skin... -Bullshit.-
Enough. I need run a few laps before 8 am, I hurry up putting my underwear, as well as my jogging suit, mp3. During the road to the door I let my gaze travel on the curves of the brunette I picked up yesterday. She was good, though she should improve something with her blowjob (:o), maybe I should recall her, she gave me her number yesterday, just in case.
I may recall her. Just maybe.
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8am
-Tenou-san, on time as always.- I see him smiling proudly. -did you hear the news?-
I look back at him dumbfounded. -Seems like in the next two weeks two new employees should be coming in here.- He is really excited, his smile is bright.
-So?- It really doesn't matter to me.
-They are two women.- He is smiling. I do not mention to smile.
-Beautiful, wavy hair, deep gaze, sexy.- I stare at him. I see his eyebrows titling.
-Women, equal pussy.- his smile is finally fading.
-Aw man, one of them is going to be your secretary!- I watch him who stiffened exasperated. -you not even excited?-
-You should have said before I was going to have a new secretary. That changes everything.- I know my features drastically turns from stone to a smirk, but I can't help it, I have been asking my father a secretary for a looong time. He never agreed. Now, what made him change cards on the table? My grin turns into a frown as I watch Miranda coming closer to my spot. I take my leave from that employee, Brandy if I'm not wrong, stepping closer to her spot.
She is a pretty woman, a good catch for any man, for me too, except for the fact she was 45, more than 20 years older than me, dear she could be my mother. I shake my head tossing away those thoughts.
-Tenou-san, Tenou-sama wishes to see you in his studio in 10 minutes, he has important matters to discuss to you.- That said, she takes her leave as I recognise once again the reason why my father choose her as his own personal secretary. Sometimes I think she is closer to him than how I was able to be in my whole life, but anyway... she is cool and strictly direct to her interlocutor something my father admires in people.
I hope my secretary won't be like that. I once wondered if they could possibly be in a physical relationship, but as soon as I got the chance to talk to her I understood she was a piece of stone. I can't figure my father trying to hit on her. -mph.- I try to stiffen my laughter.
Then I enter my office room, it was not big, on a human scale, calm simple and liveable, after all I have to spend 8 hours per day stuck up in this room. What amazes the most about this room is the view: from the back of my desk there was a glass screen, basically windows, kind of, and being at the seventh floor form here you can see a large spot of the city. You can even see the bay and if you are lucky when it doesn't rain you can catch a glimpse of sea. It's amazing. I'd like to take a picture. Today was a lucky day. Here that's it.
The sea is wonderful. I can even see her eyes, as deep as the ocean.
I shake my head. Where does it come from? I sighed coming closer the window, resting my forehead on the cool glass, arching my shoulders. I smirk. -Michiru is like anyone else here, just another employee who has been sleeping with me.-
I close my eyes.
Then why? Why I feel like the ocean is in her eyes, I only had a mere chance to catch her eyes, two weeks ago at my father's studio... I laugh remembering that little 'underwear accident' I'll surely have to tease her to get it back, unless she doesn't want to keep it as gift.
I open my eyes.
Got to talk to my father, I think exiting the room, unconsciously thinking the ocean is beautiful.
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POV Michiru
The sun is shining that brightly I can almost feel sun rays penetrating me. Well you got it, it is pretty hot. I would take the chance to go to the beach, but today I have to get out my house to go shopping. And oh yes my fourth and fifth phases have been exceeded pretty well, and even though I'm not totally fine I had to get out. Hell it has been three days I didn't escape the prison. My daylike was: during the morning feeling depressed for Mike, eating if I was mood on, afternoon being upset because of that smirk of Haruka, evening thinking they were both assholes womaniser. The worst part was the night: dreaming of none other then Haruka. Yes... Haruka Tenou. That damn blond devil. The dreams... well were not exactly chaste, and in the morning I woke up feeling aroused. Frustrating, definitely.
That has to end, Michiru. You are going to work with him. I could never survive if I'd get aroused just looking at him.
And yes, I am going to work for the TenouInc, I'll get my own desk and so on, though I am still an employee of Haruka's at least he would not stick all day long next to me to tease. Besides he has a lot of employees, he cannot hit on me too much, right?
In the email informing about my stay as an employee at the Inc it is written I personally have to provide an adequate clothing. This is the reason why I'm at the shopping centre, past the physical need to get out.
-Look over here, Michiru Kaiou, already out of the hibernation?- It is Akane and she is upset. Well, she is right after all. Since I fell depressed I locked myself up like a hedgehog. I switched off the phone and I ignored her, I deserve it.
-Hey Akane.- I try the cute-friend approach.
-Oh no Kaiou, don't hey-me, I'm upset with you. You switched your phone off, you didn't answer the door bell you never get out, I was worried sick.-
-You see Akane it's been a tough month and...- She raises a hand to my face.
-Don't care about the explanations, right now you are coming with me, I am here shopping with friends, bet you are here for the same reason, so come with me now.- I am grabbed from the forearm so I don't have much choices. -and also I've made up a date for you. Friday, 8pm, at Montefalco restaurant, I'll pick you up at 7pm, be ready.- I make an attempt to speak, and I'm turned down again. -I checked on your schedules, your new job starts on Monday. And after what you DID, don't you dare object.-
Today is Tuesday. Three days.
-Seems it's all settled.-
-Nice choice of words. Let's go.-She smiles, at least I'm forgiven, Akane is frightening when she's upset.
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Okkkayyy. That's it. As you can see I tried to fix my grammar mistakes but it's kind of difficult, since I'm used to write using the past(it's way easier that present/past alternations), so here I tried to put extra attention to grammar. This story is a light humor, so I hope you are enjoying it. If there is any mistake, report it to me, thank you all.
Now stop blabbering.
REVIEWS:
-Aia:thanks for the review, as u can see I improved my grammar (hope so ahaha)
-addicted.spirit :Thanks for your review and I hope you'll like it.
-elizabeth charlotte: ;)
-VKLOREO23: I didn't like the idea of a beta reader, I wanted to improve myself. So I did :). I also like a looot ff HarukaxMichiru no yuri, I love haruka as a woman as it has to be, but man, I'm a girl too and I have fantasies including haruka as man lol. I liked the idea and wrote it down. Glad even though my mistakes you enjoyed it. Kisses.