Confinement is not Eloping

Neuro took me back to office, he just casually put me on his shoulder and jumped around between the roof. Even if I tried to stop him, he glared at me and remind me that I am the one who was willing to do anything as the exchange of forgetting the marriage.

I really didn't understand of what happened before. What was happened that made Neuro decide to marry me. I was pretty sure that the only thing that enticing for him is something that include mystery or riddle. What made him thinking about marriage?

I looked up and sighed to the ceiling, where Neuro was sleeping before he has warned me not to leave this place. "Try to cross out even a single step of this door and you are going to regret it for the rest of your life!", that's what he said before.

I really lost it when he mad at me. What the heck?! Why he is even got angry, I am the the one who suppose to get angry at him. He was using my feeling towards him to make me as his etenal slave. That was so low! I really resent him of what he was trying to do. My mind was in chaos that I even cried in front of him, so embarrassing! After years being with Neuro, I learned that showing your weakness with Neuro has never been a good thing. Just like before, I know he wouldn't try to comfort me, but not even give me a space when I cried. He just stared at me as if I was the fire in the middle of ocean. And, how could I marry someone who doesn't have any emphaty towards other like him?!

Sighing for like the tenth times, I glanced at Akane. I kind of ignored her recently, actually it is been rude of me. But, I really don't want to admit that there's someone who's been watching all of the things that happen to me these days. And, thankfully Akane has been so understanding about it. I have ever read it somewhere that the best secretary is the one who is her existence is like the air, to the point that we sometimes forget that she is exist but she would hold and handle every crucial things perfectly. That is really what Akane for the office. But, after getting trapped in the office in the middle of night and has so many things in my mind, I need someone who would distract me of everything.

-want a cup of tea?-

Akane has already prepared to make me some tea, when I just walking towards her desk. I am so grateful for Akane, if She hadn't been here right now, I think I would lost my mind.

"Do you know that I actually always wish for a normal life?", even though I try to make a simple conversation, I was feeling too depressed to make a light heart topic. "Because my father was a professor and my mother is editor. We hardly had time together as family, although it doesn't mean that we are cold to each other. It's just the three of us are too busy to be together sometimes. But maybe because of it, everytime we spend time together is very precious memory."

Akane was only swaying the hair, I didn't know whether it means she was listening to me or she didn't understand the topic. "What I mean is, since before I always trying my best to be normal as I could." Well, let's just put aside my abnormal appetite and my bottomless stomach. "That's why I usually never want to stand out in anyway possible. Because, I always wish for a normal life." Okay, now I just keep blurted out the same thing. I let out a long sigh, it was useless to forget the topic that swirling in your mind after all. "I just want a normal family, a normal husband who is not too good but not bad either, not rich or poor, not too handsome or ugly. Just an average man who loves me and caring. Someone who can accept me and made me feel safe and comfortable. Someone who can make me feel easy and willing to spend the rest of my life with him, that's all"

-The reason why he keep you here tonight is because you are getting married?-

I had closed my eyes and also took a deep breath before let it out in a long sigh, "I'm not. And may be I will never ever get married" Yeah, that is what you got when you are in love with a monster who doesn't have any heart but, you still being stubborn and sentimental about your feeling.

-Did he ask you to marry him?-

Akane wrote it down slowly, I don't know if it is unbelievable for her or just asking to make sure. But, it was shocking for Akane to find it out.

"Has something happened to make him have that idea?", may be he just misunderstood the concept of marriage or this was his new way to torment me mentally.

-He only asked the way human male usually do to prevent his female partner from run away. I didn't know he was talking about you, I thought it's about the news he watched back then-

Akane seems so flustered.

Run away? "What news did he watch about?"

-About a girl who is eloping with her lover-

Run away... Eloping...? It doesn't make a sense at all. Why would it make him want to marry me, it's not like I can run away from him after all. He has already so weird since..."Oh God!", I hide my face in my hand. This is so stupid! I remember the last time I met Higuchi-san in here. He said I was cheating. Did he thought that may be I would elope with Higuchi? But, why? He had already know that I love him.

-What's wrong?-

"May be Neuro misunderstood about marriage." I was staring at Neuro who had being fast asleep at the ceiling. I had to talk to him properly, if it was possible. I got scared to talk to him about this, since this is going to be awkward and he was so scary before. Sometimes I also wonder how could I come to love a heartless, frightening creature that come from Hell. I rest my head on the desk and eventually go into sleep.