The car pulled up out front of this quite expensive looking restaurant. If I didn't know Japanese like I did then I wouldn't have known the name of the place was The Japanese Cherry Blossoms. The front was decorated all over with Cherry Blossoms trees, the flowers cover the wood working and etched into the glass, the wood itself was a dark cherry color. All in all it was a beautiful place; I couldn't wait to see the inside. Kyoya gets out of the car ahead of me and offers his hand out for me to take. I take his hand and get out of the car; we walk together into the restaurant.
Once through the door I see that the Cherry Blossom etching and wood work carries into the building, including the tables, which were the traditional low Japanese tables, and the fabric of the pillows was silk and embroidered with the cherry blossoms. The place was even more beautiful inside than the outside was. We stopped at the front where the matrodee was and he escorted us to a private closed off room with a plaque above it that said Ootori. I smiled as we walked in.
"So we get a private room all to ourselves?"
"Yes, we do. Every time an Ootori walks through the doors of this restaurant we are immediately shown to this room with its own kitchen, and staff. There is no waiting for anything."
"Why is that?"
"My father loaned the owner the money to start this place, with that condition written into the agreement of the loan.
If they were to ever let anyone not an Ootori use this room, or even seat an Ootori somewhere else, or close this part off completely, the ownership of it would fall to the Ootori Group."
"Wow, your father doesn't mess around with his money does he?"
"No he does not. That is why all deals he makes are always written out in a legal binding document."
"Yeah, my mother and father are the same way; it's all business with them." I sigh.
~Kyoya~
"Yeah, my mother and father are the same way; it's all business with them." She sighs, and if I heard correctly there was clear distinct sounds of longing in that sigh.
"So, down to business or is there anything you would like to talk about first?" I look at her, wondering if she knows of the engagement.
"Well, there is something important. Has your father told you about?…" She trails off and looks away from me.
"About our engagement?" I press.
She sighs and nods. I was worried that she wouldn't like being engaged to me, and here I was right the whole time. Now it is going to be even harder to make her happy.
"My mother has arranged a party for Friday evening to announce it. I am assuming that all of the parents and children of the kids at school will be there. How do you think this is going to affect the club?"
"Well, more than likely I will lose my clients, and there is a chance you will not get any, but then again there is a chance that, you have a great deal of clients trying to steal you away."
"There is like no chance of that."
"And why do you say that?"
"Because in order for someone to want to steal me from you they would first have to be attracted to me, and that would never happen, which is why I don't understand why my mother pushed so hard for our arrangement to happen. Once we are wed, feel free to have a mistress, or whatever so that you can be happy."
"And why do you think I wouldn't be happy with you?"
She didn't seem to have an answer for that she just kept looking out the window.
~Cassidy~
"And why do you think I wouldn't be happy with you?"
The word he spoke made my heart stop and my breath catch. 'Could he really be happy with me?'
"My parents hated each other before they married and by the end they were in love."
"Oh, so you think the same thing could happen with us?"
"Anything is possible, although we have not had a bad starting relationship."
"I guess you are right there. We can get to business now." I looked back over at him, he was smiling a soft sweet smile that I don't think anyone else in the world has ever scene. We got right down to business, talking about the budget and how to make everything for the party happen, all the nitty-gritty planning that is involved in a party for the whole school. One of the wait staff brought a tray for hot tea in and made us both a cup before taking our orders and returning to the kitchen. While we were working I thought about what he had said to me about our marriage, could we really be happy even though we never decided we wanted to marry each other. I knew it would be after college before we married, which gives us six years to really take the time and get to know one another, but would we really be happy with being married to each other?
The food was brought to us and we continued working while we ate. Everything had to be just like Tamaki and Claudia wanted it, and it was up to us to make it happen. This would be the first party that had male and female guests and hosts, so everything had to be done just right. We were planning to rent the schools largest hall so there would be enough room for dancing. There also had to be enough food and drinks for everyone. There was so much work going into this party that we didn't even notice how much time had passed, until the waitress that had been serving us all night came over and politely said, "Miss Blake, Mister Ootori, the restaurant will be closing now."
We looked down at our watches and it was 5minuets to mid-night.
"Oh dear I should be getting you home."
"We can just go somewhere else and keep working if you want to. I usually don't sleep much anyway."
"I don't either. There is a coffee shop that stays open all night just around the corner if you would like to go there."
"That would be wonderful." We both packed up our stuff we brought with us and bowed to the wait staff and walked from the restaurant. I didn't think about the check or who would be paying. I didn't think about any of the important things like that I just walked to the car that was still waiting out front. Kyoya told the driver to go to the coffee shop and we got in.
