Chapter 08
"I told her honey, I mean if we are going to be negaged why hide it?"
"huh.." Taiki was totally speechless and he knows this is not turning out good.
"He's just here for a few hours and then he'll be off to NY again."
(sidewalk to taki stand)
Haruka is walking ahead of the two "lovebirds" as she glaced at them at her back every now and then.
"give me your ring"
"No."
"Taiki, when you ask a girl to marry you, you have to give an engagement ring."
"Michiru I can't believe you doing this to me. I came all the way back here just for this? You are insane!"
"please? For 1 day.. find me irresistible."
(inside the taxi cab)
"Is something wrong?" Michiru asked Haruka just to break the silence.
"It's nothing, it's just when Seiya and Yaten Talks about taiki, it seems like Taiki is…"
"Gay." Taiki ended her sentence
"Exactly." Haruka s as Michiru burst in laughter.
"Common misconception since we where young."
" Well because of that misconception Taiki – most of the time likes to pretend that he's gay."
"ah… I don't get it, why would you do that?"
"Tell me Haruka, what attracted my brother to you."
"bikes, tracks, - ahh."
"exactly."
(church)
"Oh my God. Race you to the alter."
"Underplay. Remember."
"You got it." Taiki said as he spotted his second cousin on one of the church benches. " Hey! Masanori! Good to see you! Met the maid of honor? My fiancée Michiru."
Michiru smiled to the guy and pulled Taiki back to the aisle.
"You are gonna humiliate aren't you?"
"You bet."
" thing. Just stay away from the twins and…"
"WHAT! NO WAY! TAIKI MAN!" Seiya immediately ran to his brother. "This is so.."
"Against God's plans?" Taiki offered.
"No.. I'm speechless!"
"We it's not showing brother."
"Yaten! – oh there they are – Suna, Moru!" Seiya shouted to their youngest brother and foster parents as the three made their way inside the church.
"What!" Yaten immediately ran to them.
"Taiki already proposed to Michiru! They're engaged!"
"What!" Setsuna said as she over heard the conversation as she approach them. "Why didn't you said anything earlier?"
"I really want to mom but it was her decision really. She said no.. No pumpkin… this is Seiya's and Haruka's Moment, let us not steal the spotlight from them…"
"I think I'm going to cry… My two sons finally going to settle down." Setsuna said in teary words while looking at Michiru.
"Me too…" Michiru said half-heartedly while smiling back to Setsuna.
"You don't look good Haruka." Mamoru said as Haruka stood on the altar with the Wedding Planners and Mamoru. Her attention was actually focused at the center of the aisle where her best friend is being interview and interrogated.
"Huh? No. I'm okay Mamoru-san… Perfectly fine actually."
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Lunch, Saturday
The Seafood Restaurant was crowded as the entire entourage for Seiya and Haruka's wedding feast on not only food but on the daily lives of one another.
"You know, I was worried about you."
"Hm? What do you mean Seiya?"
"Well, all those broken relationships. It must be hard going through those relationships and not able to find the one… And all the while the person from your dreams is right in front of you…"
"She was talking about me." Taiki whisphered to Michiru as she and Haruka gave each other an awkward look.
"Taiki."
"Yes mom?" Taiki responded to Setsuna who was 2 seats away from them.
"How did you and Michiru meet?"
"Oh." Michiru interrupted Taiki. "Taiki is my Editor."
"But Michi, we met longer before that." Looking at his foster mother. "Actually, it a very romantic story. Would you like to tell them Michi?"
"No. It's private."
"Well honey not anymore – as I was saying mom, I first met Michiru, in a mental institution. She was there visit a friend chef that went insane after receiving a bad review and I was there visiting Dione Warwick."
"Dione Warwick?"
"Well yes… She though she was Dione Warwick – "
"Okay,who's Dione Warwick?" Yaten butted in while asking for crabsticks refills.
"You serious Yaten?"
"She's Whitney Houston's aunt." Minako answered.
"She's very good on the psychic network. Right Minako?"
"Yes Usagi. It the…"
Do you know the way to San Jose?
Lalalala…
Everybody was laughing when the twins started singing and Taiki joined in on the end part.
"So there I was with Dione – who's real name by the way is Jerry – then suddenly, breezing through the doors… Along the electric shock therapy room, I saw a vision. A visionin pink…"
"Pink?" Haruka interrupted. "You don't wear pink."
"She does Haruka. Sometimes she does wear pink."
"Taiki?"
"You do."
"I do."
"And I said to Dione, Dione who os this vision? Surely she must be an understudy to some broadway star. I mean, who does her hair? And in that moment I knew –"
"Okay honey we don't need to know what you knew back then –"
"YES WE DO!" the rest of the listeners said in chorus objecting to Michiru's disapproval.
"I am curious." Haruka said under her breathe.
"So I knew… That someday we'll end up like this. Just like a glittering romantic novel… And I said to Dione, Dione I'm inlove. Could this siren love me? Are the gods that kind? And Dione just said to me…"
