Chapter Seven: Oh Dear Lord.
A/N: I apologize for the horribly long interval between chapters but thank you for being so interested in the fanfic :D I have a favour to ask. I've sort of hit a road block. If anyone has any ideas, when you're reviewing please add any ideas you have. I will dully award credit to those who suggest ideas. Thanks for the reviews, keep 'em COMING (:
Sunlight filtered though the drapes in Ren's bedroom, shining great yellow streaks on the master bed. Upon the bed lay two people. One was a young man, in his twenties, with raven hair, tall, lean and had a muscular body. The other was a small, petite, blond haired young woman in her teens. Both of them were sprawled across the bed. Kyoko lay with her head nestled against Ren's chest and Ren himself had both arms wrapped around her as if he feared she would leave him. Neither of them was awake yet.
Kyoko turned in bed. She felt an arm pull her towards the warm entity that she was snuggled against. Wait, against? I didn't go to sleep with anyone... Right? I'm too young for that! Oh. My. God. WHAT IF I'M PREGNANT? WAIT...wait...waaait...calm down...there's no way that's even possible. She cracked an eye open. The first thing she saw, aside from the blinding sunlight, was Ren's sleeping face. Her eyes widened. R-Ren? Why am I here? Why am I in his bed more importantly? Kyoko thought back to yesterday, she remembered the fight, the hospital. Aha-ha! I remember now, I'm staying with Ren until the Darum-ya couple return. What time is it? She leaned over Ren to peek at the digital clock.
7:00 AM
Hmm just enough time to make breakfast – wait is that my cell phone? Kyoko strained her ears, and realized that it was indeed her cell phone ringing insistently in the guest room. She gently unwrapped Ren's arms from around her and climbed over him. She padded silently to the guest room and closed the door behind her. She dove for the phone that was in her hand bag.
"Hello?" Her voice was still quite raspy from just waking up.
"Kyoko-chan?" Kyoko's eyes widened in delight.
"Okami-san!"
"Oh dear we are so sorry we can't come home. They've shut down air travel for at least a month. There's been a massive accident at the airport, no planes are flying. The nearest booking in the next city is after a month. Where are you staying? Will you be able to manage? We can wire you money if you need it." Kyoko was taken aback.
"I have to stay with Ren for a month?" She stared at the phone.
"What?" Taisho took the phone from his wife's hand.
"You are staying in a man's house? I demand to speak to him immediately."
"Hai Taisho." Kyoko said meekly and walked quietly back into Ren's room. He was still asleep but now he looked so lonely. His face had a small frown as if something was missing but he couldn't put his finger on it. She got on her knees to reduce the sound of the floors creaking. She crawled up to Ren and whispered in his ear.
"Ren...Ren, wake up. Reeeeeeeen."
"Mmmmnnnngh." Ren groaned and turned, grabbing Kyoko in the process and pinning her under him. Kyoko squeaked and dropped her cell phone.
"Kyoko? Kyoko, what happened?" came Taisho's tinny voice from the cell. Kyoko strained to pick it up but couldn't reach it. She blushed as she felt his body press against hers. Then she heard him whisper her name.
"Kyoko..." Her eyes widened. She couldn't tell if he was awake or not. She decided if she stayed put any longer, Taisho would probably call in the army just to find out if she was alive. She giggled thinking of how awkward the situation would be if they found her like this. Then she fully realized the enormity of the situation. Ren, as in Tsuruga Ren, was on top of her. She was only wearing a tank top and silk pyjamas, and he was wearing silk pyjamas and black shirt, so it wasn't like this was inappropriate but still. She had to get out. Not only could she die underneath the weight of a full grown man, (and she firmly believed this), she also knew that Yashiro came to get Ren in the morning and that he had a spare key, with which he let himself in each morning and if he found them like this...all hell would break loose.
"Ren?"
Oh great, thought Kyoko, and here comes Yashiro and there opens the gates of hell. She braced herself as he peered into Ren's room. Yashiro looked in and almost choked on his morning nutri-bar. Ren was on TOP of Kyoko. He stared into the room again to make sure his eyes were not deceiving him. Sure enough, there was Ren clad in a black v-necked shirt, and black silk pyjamas, he had the slight framed young woman pinned underneath him. He looked into Kyoko's mortified face and mouthed
Kyoko? She turned seven different shades of red and answered
Taisho is on the phone, he wants to talk to Ren...will you talk to him? Yashiro grinned. He opened his briefcase and pulled out a pair of latex gloves. He picked up the phone and closed the bedroom door quietly.
"Hello?"
"Kyoko? I've been calling your name for the last 10 minutes – "
"Ah sorry, this is not Kyoko, my name is Yashiro."
"Yoshiko? Are you the man Kyoko is staying with?"
"Uhm no sir, I am Ren's manager, Yashiro." Yashiro said nervously, if he handled this wrong, Kyoko would be sent packing to Kanae's house.
"Ren? Tsuruga Ren? She's staying at Tsuruga Ren's house?" Taisho's voice sounded taken aback. Yashiro crossed his fingers. He didn't sense any hostility from him yet.
"Yes sir. He offered a place to stay, since they work together and he often drives her to her various appointments." Taisho's voice came back even gruffer than before. Scratch that, thought Yashiro, he sounds very hostile.
"Why is he running around like a pack mule? Why doesn't he just hire someone to drive Kyoko?" Yashiro's heart sank. This was not good.
"Uh well... sir..."
"What 'uh well sir'? What are his intentions? That girl is under our protection mind you. Where is Kyoko? And I want to speak to Tsuruga-san. Quickly manager, I have not got all day." Yashiro could only reply with a
"Yes sir, right away sir."
What else could he do? The man commanded obedience. He set the phone on mute and decided to be mean and wake Ren up the most annoying way possible, since he had to go through the trouble of talking to Taisho, he felt it was only fair. He burst into Ren's room.
"REEEEEEEEN WAKE UP!" He turned Ren's radio up all the way and watched in satisfaction as Ren tumbled from the bed and sat disorientated by the fall. Yashiro's revenge was short-lived as he received the full wrath of Ren's Demon Lord look that promised trouble later.
"What are you doing?" Yashiro hastily backed up, shrinking under his glare.
"Hey, I only did it to get you off of Kyoko-chan!" Kyoko let out a frustrated growl. She had almost made it off the bed and out the room unnoticed, she sat back down grumpily. Her cheeks colored red as Ren looked at Yashiro confused.
"Off of Kyoko? What..." His face blanched. "Please tell me I did not..." Yashiro smirked.
"Unfortunately you did. And to make things worse, Kyoko's Taisho-san wants to talk to you." Ren got even paler and picked up Kyoko's cell phone from his manager's hand. He lifted the phone to his ear.
"Good morning Taisho-san."
"What do you mean, get off Kyoko-chan?" Taisho's voice was dangerously low. Ren gulped and replied.
"Um sir I think you misheard-" He was cut off.
"Young fool, do not even try that, 'you misheard' bah! Now listen here closely, boy..."
Ren listened intently, made small noises of agreement, promised him something profusely much to Kyoko and Yashiro's curiosity, and bade the older man goodbye. As he hung up the phone he glared at Yashiro again.
"What?" said Yashiro nervously.
"You forgot to turn the phone on mute."
"What? No, I did turn it on!" Yashiro protested. Ren rolled his eyes. He picked up his towel from a rack in front of the bathroom door.
"In any case, I'm going to take a shower" He slammed the door behind him. Yashiro sighed and looked back at Kyoko whose eyes were filling with tears.
"Kyoko what's the matter?" he asked alarmed. Kyoko threw herself on the ground in front of him.
"Gomen! Yashiro-san I'm A HORIBBLE, DESPICABLE, FILTHY EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN BEING! I MADE TSURUGA-SAN GET EMBARRASED BY HAVING TO ANSWER TO ! HE HATES ME DOESN'T HE? UWAAAAAAAH!" she grovelled on the ground. Yashiro laughed.
"It's alright Kyoko; I think he's just embarrassed. You didn't do anything worth apologizing for." He helped Kyoko up. "In any case, Kanae has asked you to call her, she will be coming to the shoot and threatened that if you didn't, she would gatecrash Ren's house. What?" Yashiro said in response to the small frown on Kyoko's face.
"I've wanted to ask you for a while, why do you call Moko-san, Kanae? Do you know her well?" she asked.
"Know her well?" Yashiro thought back.
[flashback]
*in Ren's dressing room after the beach photo shoot*
Knock Knock.
Ren and Yashiro exchanged a look. No one often came knocking on his door; they preferred to wait for him to arrive on set. Yashiro opened the door to reveal Kanae. Ren was surprised to see her, of all people, at his door. He barely knew her, all he knew was that he had to get on her good side; otherwise his dream of confessing to Kyoko would remain a dream
"Kotonami-san. Welcome." Ren inclined his head slightly in a polite nod. Kanae looked at him; stepped in and shut the door behind her. She turned and faced him.
"So Tsuruga-san, how about we skip the formalities?" Ren stared at her, he knew she was blunt, but he wasn't expecting this at all.
"Um, what would you mean by that?" he asked cautiously. She walked over to him and looked him squarely in the eyes.
"Ren, we both know that you're in love with Kyoko." Yashiro choked on his rice ball in the background. Kanae ignored him."The question is, what are you gonna do about it?" Ren's eyes widened slightly.
"I .umm...what...that..." He sputtered, trying to develop a coherent sentence. Kanae rolled her eyes at Yashiro.
"Look you, the entire world can see that you are madly in love with her." Kanae said the word love like it was a disease. "I just came here to tell you that I don't trust you. The President told me that your girlfriends number more than your age. Kyoko better not become just another number. With what Fuwa did to her...you don't know exactly what he did? Eh you'll find out soon enough. Back to the point, I care for Kyoko a lot. (Of course I will deny I ever said that if you quote me). This drama is a romance, and it's a series that ends in marriage...so are you going to make a damn move or not?" Kanae finished her rant and looked at him expectantly.
Ren thought for a minute, ignoring for the moment that the President had talked to Kanae about such matters...I'll deal with him later.
"Kotonami-san, those previous relationships were all begun and ended by my girlfriends. According to the President, Kyoko is my first true love." Kanae stared at him incredulously. He was blushing! She motioned for him to continue, her face suspiciously devoid of emotion.
"I will care for and love Kyoko all my life. That I promise you, Kotonami-san-" Kanae held up her hand.
"Kanae. The first step with Kyoko is to get on a first name basis with her. If she sees us doing it she won't mind when you approach her about it. You call me by my first name and I'll call you by yours, same goes for you glasses-kun." Yashiro sputtered at the indecency of the name but thought better of it under Kanae's glare.
"Very well." Ren agreed. Kanae nodded and walked to the door.
"Good, however this doesn't mean I fully accept you." She looked at both of them.
"I'm watching you." With that she swept out and shut the door. Then they heard loud giggles coming from outside the room.
"First love huh...this shall be interesting..."
[End of flashback]
"Let's just say it was a mutual agreement" Yashiro said dryly. Kyoko accepted this explanation and got up, making her way to the kitchen. Yashiro heard rushing water and the chinking of plates as Kyoko called out to him.
"Yashiro-san, it's only technology you're horrible with right?" she asked without glancing back even once.
"Well yes, but Kyoko-chan, you really shouldn't be doing anything with that wrist. It's a miracle you can even act with it. "
"Great, set the table please." Said Kyoko, ignoring his comment, Yashiro sighed and complied. Kyoko piled all the food dishes on her hands and arms and placed them on the table.
"What is taking Ren so long?" She wondered aloud, glancing towards his bed room. Yashiro already had his mouth full, so he just shrugged. She giggled and patted him on the head
"Keep eating Yashiro-san, I'll go call Ren." With that she strode purposefully into his room. Kyoko walked to wards the bathroom door and was about to rap her knuckles against it, when the white wood of the door disappeared, only to be replaced by a towering, soaking wet body. Kyoko stumbled back in her haste and fell flat on her back. Ren moved forward to help her, when he realized she was pointedly staring at the ground, and with a start he realized that the only thing covering him was the towel that was wrapped around his waist.
Meanwhile at the table Yashiro wondered what was taking Kyoko so long, so he leaned back on two legs of the chair to peer into the master bedroom. He nearly choked on his spoon when he saw Kyoko on the floor on her back propped up only by her hands and a soaking wet Ren clad in a towel, reaching his hand out to her. Yashiro bolted from her and into the room knocking his chair over in the process.
"Uh, Kyoko-chan, Ren will be out in a minute, why don't you start eating?" He pushed her out of the room and shut the door. He leaned against the door after he shut it and sighed wearily.
"Ren, when I said get her to fall in love with you, I did not mean for you to seduce her naked!" Yashiro stopped mid-rant, Ren wasn't listening he realized.
In his mind's eye Ren replayed the image of Kyoko's face. She had looked at his face and body in a look that could only be described as awe and desire? He thought, the only other emotion on her face was slight fear, this he chalked up to her finally realizing and becoming aware that he was, in fact, a man. He blinked as he realized that Yashiro was now ranting about his lack of attention to others. Ren smirked, remembering Kyoko's face again and patted Yashiro absently on the head, just like Kyoko.
"I'm going to put some clothes on, go eat with Kyoko. Go make sure she's alright." He grinned as if remembering an inappropriate joke and disappeared into his closet.
Yashiro sighed. As much as he wanted Ren to get together with Kyoko, he couldn`t afford how reckless Ren was getting. He walked out of the bedroom to find Kyoko eating her breakfast almost mechanically.
Time for some damage control, thought Yashiro as he checked his watch,
9:20AM Damn, we're running late.
He leaned forward to peer into Kyoko's face and was astonished to see, for the first time, a blush caused by a man.
"Kyoko-chan, are you alright?" She raised her eyes hesitantly to meet his.
"Um, Yashiro-san," She seemed to struggle to articulate her question. "Are all men like...well, are they all like Ren?" Her question caught Yashiro off guard as he it dawned on him that Kyoko had finally become aware of Ren as a man. He thought for a second.
"Well, Kyoko-chan, somewhat yes, but remember this is Ren we're talking about. He's a different type of man altogether." Kyoko nodded in agreement and then frowned.
"But do all men exude that raw power that Ren does? The one that makes your knees go weak? The look on his face made me think I would be eaten alive. If men are not like him, then it's no wonder Ren is considered a co-star killer."
Yashiro snorted into his food as they heard a loud bang from the master bedroom. So Ren is listening, thought Yashiro as he hid a smile behind his hand. With some difficulty Ren came out, and seated himself at the table, Yashiro observed the silence between the two with some amusement but then took pity and decided to pull them back to their senses. He reached for two copies of the new script for the second episode of Faster Than a Kiss.
"Here, this is the script for the second and Kyoko get dressed, we should leave soon."
*2 hours later*
"Okay," called director Ogata and Shingai from their director's chair. "Everyone in position for the first act of episode 2, take 1..aaannd ACTION!" Kyoko closed her eyes and slowly let Fumino take over.
[voice over lay: After losing the place we can belong we've always been looking for a place where these tired and road weary legs can land on]
Fumino walked in the hallway behind a particularly obnoxious guy. He was shooting his mouth off to everyone, and he was getting irritating. Then he shoved a small girl out of his way.
"MOVE IT YOU FAT PIG!" Fumino rolled her eyes stepped up and slammed his head into a wall so hard the wall cracked.
"You move it, and don't call a girl fat you unpleasant idiot." The guy got up and tottered away, fuming.
[Voice overlay: I'm second year, class C in Kumaneko high school, Kaji Fumino. A 16 year old girl who carries out her own justice, even if it gets her labelled as a violent person.]
The same guy then bumps into Ojiro-sensei.
"Ah, seriously! YOU'RE IN MY WA YOU GLASSES!" Sensei runs over to Fumino.
"Kaji-san did you hear that! He called me glasses! Please scold him!" The bully flinched. Fumino was too wrapped with sensei to notice.
"You do have glasses! Besides whats with you? A teacher crying to his student?" Sensei grins.
"I couldn't help it," he said a gleam in his eyes while giving her a thumbs up. "Kaji-san was being so cool." Rolling her eyes, she sent the cowardly bully away while she yelled at Sensei more.
[voice overlay: this is my homeroom teacher, Ojiro Kazuma, a somewhat plain English teacher, 24 years old. And for opposite people like us, there is a secret]
"CUT!" yelled the directors, everyone move to scene 2, MOVE IT!" Kyoko-smiled at Ren, while on her way to her dressing room, telling him with her eyes that she thought his acting had been wonderful and ran to get her next outfit on. She eyed the thing with distaste. It looks like something I would've worn for Sho when I was an idiot and in love with him. She shook her head and told herself sternly to put these thoughts out of her mind. She ran back on set.
The door of Ojiro's apartment opens, inside Fumino and Teppei were dressed once again in the young wife costume. This time, a sweater that bared her shoulders and a heart apron with a short skirt and horizontally striped leggings. Fumino says through clenched teeth, her face crimson in embarrassment.
"Welcome home darling! Do you want dinner? Or a bath? Or..." Teppei smiles and adds,
"Or do you want Teppei!" He jumps into Sensei's arm, who hugs him.
"OOOOOOH! I WANT TEPPEI-KUN!" Fumino stood up and yelled at him.
"Hey! Why are these skirts getting shorter everyday?"
"Ah-ah Fumino-san, Wife cosplay=dinner." Fumino gritted her teeth and stalked away, having already set the plate for dinner. Later that night, Fumino packed her things for tomorrow's day of school, she saw the dictionary that Sensei had given her for English and went to go thank him. She peered into his room to see him writing out the lesson plan for the next day, with earphones on listening to some English audio tapes.
"Hmm? Fumino-san? What is it?" He said as he noticed her in the doorway. She crawled over to peer into his notebook and laptop.
"Wow, you work hard," She commented. Sensei laughed.
"Well, it's not easy," Fumino smiled. He works so hard. He really is good man.
"Well thanks for the dictionary. I'll work just like you every day." She noticed him smile lovingly at her and flushed red. She hastily got up.
"I'll make some tea for you, so just hold on."
"No. No." He grabbed her hand before she could leave and kissed it.
"That smile just now was more than enough." She walked back in a daze to her room.
[voice overlay: its already been one month since we've started this "marriage lifestyle" and yet... we do not do married couple routines ! We haven't even kissed yet and we sleep in different rooms!]
"Stop!" The directors called. "Last scene before lunch, lets do this one perfectly guys! Moving to the outdoor set now!" Kyoko walked to the set with Ren, back in her uniform and him in his dress shirt and tie. This time Kinnji showed up. He grinned at Ren and handed him a wooden bat.
"Take it, it's your murder weapon." He winked at Ren, laughter in his eyes for the lines in the next scene. He was wearing a black shirt and sweatpants, the attire of a kindergarten teacher Ren toyed with it in his hands and pretended to hit him. Kyoko giggled.
"Well, its closest I'll ever come to actually beating you up, so its good enough." He grinned, sharing a friendly moment with Kinnji. Kyoko looked at them.
"You guys really are good friends aren't you?" They looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"I guess it's true," Kinnji said laughing.
"Yeah," Ren agreed, Kyoko looked at them confused. Kinnji decided to explain.
"Actually Kyoko,-chan, when Ren and I met for the first time, we disliked each other so much that we scared the rest of the co-stars." Kyoko's eyes grew large.
"Ehh? Ren actually didn't like you? What's not to like?" Kinnji laughed.
"My sentiments exactly Kyoko-chan." Ren narrowed his eyes at them.
"Hey, you're making it sound like it was my fault. Who was the one running around pranking people and scaring the living daylights out of them? Oh that's right, YOU!" Kyoko was astonished to see Ren acting like an actual guy with Kinnji. She realized that aside from Yashiro, Kinnji was his only other friend in showbiz.
"So why did you guys dislike each other?" She asked. Kinnji rolled his eyes.
"Because Ren was too much of a prude and couldn't appreciate a good joke or prank." Ren smiled dryly
"If I recall that whoopee cushion prank of yours nearly destroyed my career. I spent weeks trying to rebuild my reputation." Kyoko snorted, and then began to laugh so much she began to cry much to the surprise of her co-stars. She kept trying to imagine the situation of Ren and whoopee cushion. The more she imagined, the more she laughed. She held her hand out for a high five from Kinnji.
"Well done!" She laughed at Ren and patted him on the arm, momentarily forgetting her scare from that morning. "How I wish I could've seen that!" They reached the set and waited for the directors to yell action
"ANNNND.. ACTION!"
"Morning!" chirped Ryu.
[Voice overlay: this is sensei's best friend from high school, Shindo Ryu; he's going to help us keep our marriage a secret and works at Teppei's kindergarten]
"You guys are so dazzling A high school girl and an obscene teacher!" He ducked out of the way and grabbed Teppei, making for the kindergarten and running away from Sensei who was chased after Ryu yelling with a base ball bat.
"You're so VULGAR!"
*that day after school at the kindergarten*
"Buncha look!" Teppei smiled at Fumino happily sporting an origami hat. "A warrior's helmet!" Fumino bent down to his level and examined it.
"Ooh! You are good at this!" She looked up at Ryu as he fixed Teppei's backpack.
"Hey, you've been around Sensei a long time right?" He thought.
"Yeah about ten years I think now."
"Whats Sensei's taste in women?" Ryu sweatdropped.
"Huh? Aren't you guys marr-"
"ied, yeah" She looked embarrassed. "But he hasn't so much as touched me. So I thought maybe if I get closer to his taste in women, he'd be interested in touching me." Ryu backed away from her and looked like he'd been hit by lightening.
"MA-KUN YOU MUST REALLY BE STUPID! WHAT, ARE YOU TRYING TO BE COOL? HE'S DEFINITLEY HOLDING BACK! A CUTE GIRL LIKE YOU!" His yell startled Fumino and she tried to quiet him.
"Eh? Eh? Shut up!" she tried to cover his mouth.
"Bun-chan's so poooor!" he cried gushing great rivers of tears.
"EH?" Fumino grabbed him in a headlock to shut him up completely, passerby's giving them strange looks.
"CUTTTTTT!" Yelled Ogata. He reverted back to his soft spoken self. "Great work everyone. We will now break for lunch and then resume filming." Everyone broke away drifting towards the lunch area chattering about the scene just filmed. Kyoko let go of Kinnji as she sensed a great angry aura emanating from Ren. Sure on the outside he was smiling, but that smile was one that said, KILL. She hastily let Kinnji go, who grinned over how possessive Ren was being winked at him , throwing his arms around her shoulders.
" Kyoko-chaaaaaaaaaan! Let's get lunch!"She worried at his contact but decided she didn't really care until she saw Ren's glare and hurriedly ducked out of Kinnji's arms.
On the walk to the lunch room, people kept coming up to Kyoko and commenting on how real Fumino seemed and what great actor she was. Ren on the other hand was more annoyed with the compliments' he was getting.
"Tsuruga-san! Amazing, you played that perverted teacher to the T. It's almost as if you really were him!"
Or
"Wow. Tsuruga-san, I had no idea you would make such a charming pervert. I'd love to be harassed by you." [Insert ridiculous eyelash batting here]
After this one in particular, Ren became severely irritated. Kyoko, Yashiro, Kanae and Kinnji were greatly amused by the compliments much to his displeasure.
"This is getting just plain silly!" He groaned, exasperated after the umpteenth time someone complimented him. "He is not just a pervert! He's a caring husband as well as a devoted teacher! Right Kyoko?" Kyoko was too busy laughing as she noticed more women drooling over Ren in the far corner.
"Yes, yes, you are very caring." In an almost wifely fashion she straightened his tie and looked up into his face and paused, faltering. Then she smiled.
"You boys go on ahead to lunch, I just need to borrow Moko-san for a minute," Before anyone could say anything she grabbed Kanae and bolted to her dressing room.
One inside she locked the door and slid to the floor hands clutching her head. Kanae knelt beside her.
"Mo, what's wrong?" Kyoko looked up at Kanae in tears startling her.
"Moko-saan."she whispered in a sob. "I think..." Kanae leaned forward to hear clearly.
"...I think I'm ill." Kanae looked at her confused.
"What do you mean?"
"My heart is beating fast, I have butterflies in my stomach and my skin feels hot." Kanae began to worry.
"How often does this happen?" Kyoko thought about it for a moment. She snapped her fingers.
"Ah! Usually whenever Ren is around!" Kanae fell over.
"Ehh? Moko-san, are you alright? Are you sick?" No, I'm not Kyoko, Kanae thought you are. Sick with the Love bug! Kanae had a thought.
"Kyoko," she said aloud.
"Hmm" She replied eyes full of worry.
"Did anything...happen at Ren's house?" Kyoko froze. Kanae watched with interest. She reached out and shook Kyoko lightly in the shoulder. "Mo! What happened?" Kyoko started to mutter unintelligibly.
"Why don't you ask me what didn't happen?" Kanae backed up warily at the strange swirling aura gathering around Kyoko. She seemed to have hit a nerve. "First I ended up sleeping with him cause I couldn't deal with a measly nightmare, then Taisho called and Ren pinned me to bed under him, then he came out of the shower with only a towel on! Who does that I ask you!" She finished her rant. Kanae only had one question. "And what did you think when he came out?"
One again, Kyoko froze. This time she went red. Kanae hid her laughter and pulled her to her feet.
"Relax, you're ill but not with something harmful." Kyoko cocked her head.
"How can an illness not be harmful?" Kanae winked at her.
"When you realize what you're sick with, you'll understand." With that the two left.
As they re-joined the boys, Kyoko was deep in thought as she reflected on Kanae's words. She slid into a seat next to Ren. Her leg brushed against his, and she felt a jolt of electricity. She couldn't help but stare at him. His face was so kind and so perfect. His body was like that of the Grecian Adonis. She suddenly had a revelation.
The Butterflies in my stomach ... She thought...
The Heat in my body...
The safe feeling his presence brings me...
The Shortness of breath I feel when he's around...
Oh no...
Oh dear god...
I've fallen in love with Ren!
