Chapter 9: 'I' is for Illegitimacy

Good morning Kyoya. Kyoya sighed. He had been having too many late nights between work and searching for Gabriella. Being who he was, he hated waking up in the morning. With his lack of sleep, he didn't need a 'Gabriella letter' first thing in the morning.

It been three days. I'm surprised at how little sleep you're getting. I'm also quite surprised that you haven't destroyed anything near you due to lack of sleep. I know how you hated being awaken after all.

Kyoya scowled. Everyone was nagging at him to get more sleep, and said that he looked like he was about to collapse. At the moment, sleep was just wasting time he would need to win Gabriella's little game.

'I'. It was actually a little difficult to figure what this one could be, but as you can see, I found out what it was.

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'I' stands for illegitimacy. An illegitimate child, that's what I am. And you of all people know that.

I was an illegitimate child, a big reason for me to take on the challenges my father's family has given me. I had to work hard to gain their trust, to gain their love. My mother and I have never been allowed to enter the main estate because we were only the second family and I knew that my mother have always felt ashamed because of that.

Being an illegitimate child, was the same as being the third child wanting to inherit the family business. You were the first person to have accepted me even if I was an illegitimate daughter. If you would ask me I could say that me being the illegitimate daughter of Marcus Sanders was the sole reason to why I even met you.

This was one of the things Tamaki and I had in common. We were both illegitimate children, we were both disliked by the real family of our fathers. But that didn't stop the both of us from getting what we wanted, we worked hard to achieve everything we have now.

An illegitimate child was often called the love child of a person and his mistress. When I was young I have always been disliked by my classmates, I was constantly being bullied because of being the 'love child' of Marcus Sanders and his mistress Elizabetha Moretti. But my mother was never informed that he was married.

I thought that it was quite unfair, my mother and I were the victims not them, yet we were treated like trash. That was until my father's real wife died and he married my mom. We were called 'The Opportunists' by many people, but not you.

I don't even know why I'm telling you all of these things. I know that you already knew of this things yet I can't help but tell you. Right now all I could do is sing to my hearts content.

There is a hint for you though – it is the first place where my mother and father met.

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Seventeen letters left Kyoya. Do you know where I am now?

-Gabriella

Kyoya laughed at the idea of Gabriella singing, feeling a little wary of the idea at the same time. He heard from her brothers that when she sings she sounds like a dying cat, that's why whenever she would ask him if he wanted to hear her sing he would always decline.

He laid down on his bed. She had mentioned the place where her parents met when they were in France yet he can't seem to remember.

Still, it made searching easier. He could just ask her parents where they met and he would find her.

Once he found her, Kyoya could do whatever it was he decided he was going to do. He'd figure that out when he found her.

It was just too bad things for Kyoya never went that smoothly…