Hello
Well hello again! This chapter is rather long! And I bet it'll have many grammar mistakes (I didn't have time to send it to MEI for correcting.. hell I'm not even posting this from my computer.. the damn thing's getting fixed) so just skip them and pretend they are not there..
Well I think that's it! On with the chapter!!
CHAPTER 10
Her senses started to get back to her again after waking up from a really strange dream: bathing in a pool full of tequila while she was talking to a guy named Edgar.
As she started to lift her head from the pillow she began feeling the huge pounding in her head
"shit" she said in a rusty voice.
Why was she so thirsty again? Then she started to open her eyes and taking in on her surroundings
'ookkk.. when did I paint my room again? ..umm I didn't.. shit.. I didn't ..where the hell am I?' she started to look around while lifting her self rapidly from the bed, the needles pinching her head with more fury .
"ohh" she said while grabbing her head
"Well that's not a very smart thing to do with a hang over"
She jumped at the sound of the voice, bringing her head up once more and looking at the owner.
"Mark?" she said surprised to the man that was standing in front of her.
At her question the guy just smiled back at her.
She then took a good look at him, he was.. in his boxers! 'Shit shit shit!! OMG OMG OMG... I slept with Mark, I slept With Mark, shit shit shit.. and I.. and I.. I don't remember a thing!!'
"ohh nooo" was all she was able to musse while putting her hands on her face
"Ohh honey, your head hurts?" asked Mark while taking a seat next to her
"ohhhh noooo" she said this time whining
"Well you said that already"
She looked at him between her fingers and she could see him grinning
"ahhhhhhhhhhhhh" she said in what could only be assembled as a cry
"Yeah you look like hell too" Mark said placing his hand on her hands and separating them from her face
"Here, I brought you some Advil, and a glass of water, it'll make you feel better"
She took the medicine from his hand and the glass of water from the tray he had placed on the bed not even daring to look him in the eyes. After swallowing the medicine she drank all the water.
"Well at least you're not thirsty anymore" He said in a teasing voice
"Mark..?" she said in a low voice, trying to gain back her strength, self power.. moral?
"Yeah?" in a keen tone
"umm.. did we.. I mean did we.. you know.?" She said now looking at him pleading with her eyes for him to understand, she didn't really want to finish the sentence.
He looked at her with questioning eyes 'ohh!! She doesn't remember.. well this is going to be fun' he thought while fighting the urge to smirk
"But honey" hurt eyes "don't you remember?.. you told me you loved me!"
"WHAT!?.." she yelled "shit.. too fast.. too fast" she said grabbing her head once more
"Ohh honey come here, you're just confused, let your cupcake make it all feel better" he said while embracing her in a hug, and placing his chin on her head not letting her see the grin on his face.
She was just plane stunt 'what the hell am I going to do know!' "umm Mark?"
"Yeah honey?"
"well I don't want to disappoint you or anything but" she interrupted her words when she started to feel him shaking 'is he crying?.. OMG he's crying.. wait.. he's not crying.. HIS Laughing!'
At that she separated quickly from him "your Laughing!, why are you laughing!? Is this funny!? Cause please, if it is, tell me the joke!"
Mark was rolling in the bed, grabbing his stomach while laughing his butt off
"hahah this is so funny. This 2 days have been the greatest days of my whole life.. hahahaha!!" still laughing.
Tomoyo was just glaring at him not really understanding what was happening. She just knew right now she felt like killing Mark
"soooooooo funny" he said while gaining his composure and cleaning a few tears with the backs of his hand
"..well except for the part when you started crying about that Eriol guy" he said the last part in a serious voice.
"what!!"
"Ohh yeah you spilled your whole love life to The 39's Bar near 11th street"
At Tomoyo's confused face he just added "you really don't remember anything do you?"
"No" she said looking down her cheeks red from the embarrassment.
"Well, what can you remember?"
"Umm.. I went to Er.. umm.. yeah... well getting to the bar and having a couple of drinks.. and well everything is just a blur after that" her eyes still focused on her hands while playing with her fingers.
"ooookkk"
"Mark" she said in a low voice, once again gaining the courage to look him in the eyes while moving to a sitting position on the bed
"did we?.. I mean.. did we sleep together?" she was now sting up at the edge of the bed, Mark on the other side. That's when she notice she was still dressed in yesterdays clothes 'ohhhhhh'
"Of course not you brainless cow!" he said braking the tense mood that filled the room
"HEY!"
"God, you were my best friend in collage!! You know I'm GAY!"
"Well, I don't know!.. I just.. well.. I was confused!!"
"I'll say!"
"hey!! I haven't seen you in years, who knows what you've been up to!"
"Well you can be sure that I was Not curing my self from gayness!!"
"well I just. I just.. What am I suppose to THINK! I wake up in a strange bed and the first thing I see is you in your boxers!!"
"you've seen me in my boxers before! Is not a big deal"
A small smile formed on her lips as one eyebrow came up
".. ok that did not come out right.. it is a big deal... I meant the you seeing me in my boxers thing"
To that comment she just couldn't resist the urge to laugh
"HEY!! What the fuck is so funny!! You know I'm right!"
"thk thk thk I don't know Mark, things do tend to get smaller with time" she said in what was supposed to be a serious tone.
"yeah yeah whatever"
They just stood in silent for I moment. Not an uncomfortable silence, just one thinking, each one immerse in their own world
"Mark"
"Yeah?"
"is good to have you back"
"yeah I know"
--
"and then I went to the bar.. and you know the rest of the story" said Tomoyo before introducing a spoon of ice-cream in her mouth
After their conversation in Mark's room Tomoyo took a bath and appeared to be a little bit more relax, although thoughts of Eriol still appeared in her mind. Later on, after talking a little bit about Mark's life and how he ended back in England after living in China for almost 6 years, they ended in the kitchen.. two bowls of ice-cream, talking about her.. again. She'd just finished telling him all about how she ended up in England, about her mother's death (although he already knew about that from their e-mails. That was the only way they stood in contact), and about Eriol.
"ok, I'm just , wow!" said Mark while scooping some ice cream from his boll and putting it in his mouth as well
"Yeah I know.. is like.. living in a novel"
"Yeah one of those Mexican soap operas.. Mi amor, te amo!" he said putting a hand in his heart while his face mimicked what was suppose to be a sexy look
"yeah yeah whatever small pants" she said not even considering looking up from her ice-cream
He ignored the comment and said in a low tone "Tomoyo"
"Umm?" her mouth full of ice-cream
"I know you made up your mind and all about not looking back and stuff"
She just nodded to his comments while scooping some more ice-cream
"but"
"but?" she said after swallowing some more
"but.. and I'm not making excuses or taking sides here.. from all you've told me, this Kaho chick is a real bitch"
"well I wouldn't say that, she's just"
"A reincarnation of the devil?"
"Well.. no. I mean she's just got it a bit out of focus"
"Come on! You've told me she's cheated on Eriol more then twice, that you've seen her with your one eyes" Tomoyo was about to retort but he interrupted her "and don't even dare to say he could've been her cousin or a really close friend cause believe me Girl, I'll hit you!" he said pointing at her with his spoon
She just looked down at her ice-cream again
"you hit like a girl anyways" she whispered
"Hey!! I heard that"
She smiled still looking down at her ice-cream, playing with it with her spoon
"What I'm trying to say, and please don't get angry with me or something, is that you don't know if she was telling the truth, she could've been there picking up her clothes for all you know"
Tomoyo looked up at him, a mix of confusion, and surprise showing on her face
"Ahh come on! Don't tell me you didn't think it could be possible?!"
"She has no need of lying"
"Hello!! Resurrection of the Devil we're talking about"
"Well yeah, I mean.. umm.. I don't know.. I don't want to think about it.. can we talk about something else?"
"ookkk.. umm let's see.. you already told me yesterday, in your drunkie confession, that he IS a hunkie.. so the question is.. is he a good kisser?" he said grinning
Tomoyo almost chocked with the ice-cream
"-cough cough- excuse me!"
"Well that's a definitely yes!"
--
"Elaine?" said Eriol after pressing the intercom
"Yes Mr. Hiragizawa?" she said in a cheerful tone
"Could you please get me Ms. Daidouji in line, I can't seam to get the call trough" 'or she doesn't want to pick up the phone, which is, I bet, the real reason'
"Yes sir"
"Thank you" he said clicking the intercom off.
He's been having a terrible day and it wasn't even 10 o'clock. After yesterday's moment in solitude, he decided he was going to have a word with Tomoyo. If she really thought those things she was going to tell him straight in the face, that was for sure. So, he's been trying to reach her but she just wouldn't pick up the phone, not that he supposed she was going to be easy to find.. or talk to.
He sighted taking of his glasses and massaging his closed eyes with his hand. 'Tomoyo, you've made me a weak man'
The beeping of the intercom interrupted his trail of thoughts
"yes Elaine"
"Umm, Mr Hiragizawa, Ms Daidouji is not available at this moment"
"What do you mean she's not available?"
"Well she hasn't come to work today"
"Why?"
"I don't know. I talked to Susan and she said that Ms Daidouji hasn't called to tell why she hasn't shown up, that she had tried reaching her at her cell phone but she just gets the phone mail"
"..."
"What would you like me to do sir?"
"Hold my calls"
"What?"
"I want you to hold my calls"
"Ok.."
"Ohh and cancel all my afternoon meetings, I'm going out"
"Ok sir"
"well bye" he said before pressing the off bottom.
--
"Hahaha, yeah that was before she saw the love letter!" said Tomoyo while opening the door of her apartment
"Yeah! I still can't believe I pretended to be heart broken just to get an A! I mean was the teacher nice or what!"
"yeah, maybe I little too nice" she said still laughing while entering the living room and turning on the lights, Mark fallowing close by.
Then she just froze
"What?" asked Mark, seeing her stunned form.
"Eriol" she said looking straightly at the couch
Mark quickly followed her gaze to the couch and saw a man with blue sapphire hair and eyes looking intensively at Tomoyo. The man looked really... relaxed.
Tomoyo was just perplex, she tried moving her lips to form a word but they just wouldn't come out
Mark was just looking between one and the other; well he was actually looking at Eriol
"damn!!, if you don't want him can I have him" he whispered to Tomoyo, trying to see if she woke up from her trance
Eriol just walked straightly to her, calmly as ever
"Hello Tomoyo" he said looking straightly at her
Tomoyo was still staring at him, Mark was still staring at Eriol as well.
Eriol, in a suave move, turned to look at Mark
"Good evening, I'm Eriol Hiragizawa, and you are?" he said stretching his hand to Mark 'who the fuck are you?, may I ask!'
"hello..I'm Mark.. Mark" he said shaking Eriol's hand while, what could only be described as a geeky smile, played in his face. He continued shocking Eriol's hand not really wanting to let go, until he saw Eriol looking confusedly at their hands
"Ohh.. sorry, you can have that back now" 'stupid, stupid, stupid'
Eriol just smiled 'Ok that was wired... your still in my death list though' He was really pissed. Who the fuck was this Mark guy, and why the fuck was he with His Tomoyo, he was really, really angry; but he could bet his life that showing his anger wouldn't be the smartest thing in the world right now. So he turned his face back to Tomoyo.
Tomoyo was in Lala Land right now. 'Why is he here? I'm not ready to deal with him right now!! Shit.. shit shit!!' she just keep staring at Eriol, until she saw he was intensively looking back, that made her come out of her trance
"wh..wha..what are you doing here" she said getting the feelings in her brain back
"You didn't show to work Today, why?" he asked ignoring her question
As her senses started to kick in, she was staring to feel anger 'wait, Why is he HERE?! Isn't he supposed to be with Kaho!'
"Well I didn't go cause... cause I spend the night at Marks" she said with a grin
"What!?" he said not caring if his anger was noticeable in his words
Mark just started coughing 'What the fuck is wrong with this chick!'
"-cough cough- I need to get some water, I'll be right back" 'or not' he said after running to the kitchen, trying to escape Eriol's death glare, he could've swear he saw some red light forming in Eriol's gaze
'that chicken!' thought Tomoyo staring at Marks back while he run to the kitchen. Then she once again turned her gaze to Eriol. She noticed that he was really angry 'Well good!! Serves you right for lying to me!'
"So, care to tell me how you got in?"
"No. So care to tell me who this Mark guy is?" he said taking a step towards her.
"his a friend" she said dragging the last word and taking a step back, keeping a distance between the two.
"a friend? How nice!" he said sarcastically "and from where do you know this friend of yours?" he said taking an other steep forward, still looking straightly at her
She took another step back, but he continued getting closer, so she continued stepping back until she hit the wall. Eriol stepped even closer.
"So, who's he?" he said in a demanding tone.
Tomoyo was just confused, maybe that was his purpose. He had a cold expression, demanding answers from her, but he was dangerously close, his body calling to hers.
"umm, well his an old friend from collage" she said trying to get her composure back "I met him yesterday and we ended having a couple of drink and then.. you know.. headed to his place" she said regaining all her inner strength 'take that!'
He could see she was rejoicing her self with her answers. If she wanted to get him pissed she really had done it this time. He quickly started thinking of the information she had given him, about Mark, about his expression when he saw him 'ahhhhhhhh Mark!! I remember know' he thought to him self thanking God for the moments he and Tomoyo talked about their lives when they where doing the budged reports. He was smiling internally, but his face didn't show it.
Tomoyo took his silence as a sign that she had won this battle, so she continued talking with a wide grin on her face
"yeah so we headed back to his place.. and in the morning, after breakfast I just decided I was too tired for work, if you know what I mean" she winked at him.
"Ohh is that so?" he said moving even closer to her, there noses almost touching, she could feel his breath on her face, on her lips. That made her legs feel like jelly and she was thankful that the wall was supporting some of her wait.
"yeah you know.. tired" she said nervously. He had this cat grin that she wasn't liking very much, it made her feel.. Unease.
"ohh.. believe me.. I know" he said in a purred like tone.
'What the! He wasn't supposed to get like that!! he's supposed to be angry' she was really confused, and adding the effect that he was causing to her body you could say she was in real turmoil.
His grin just got wider.
"Ohh that's really great my love" he said getting his mouth closer to hers, his right hand grabbing her waist and his left hand tucking a strand of hair behind her ear, then after doing so lingering on her neck while massaging it with his thumb.
"yeah.. great" For Tomoyo it was back to Lala Land. He was way too close for her brain to even consider working.
Their lips where now a breath away, and Tomoyo was no longer breathing.
"is just a pity his gay, remember?" said Eriol while brushing his lips with hers
"What!" she reacted pushing him with both her hands and escaping from his hold "How do you know.. ohh that was low! You read his mind, didn't you?! Ohh that's low even for you!!" she was really, really mad this time
Eriol just chuckle 'so I was right! It was him'
She was 3 feats away from him, her arms on her hips and her cheeks red from anger. She looked absolutely enchanting in his eyes.
"Ohh no my love, you know I haven't done that in a very long time know, I just merely remembered a conversation we had about a good friend of yours from college, and how he turned out to be gay.. so, I just assumed it could be him and I turned out to be right." He said with a huge grin.
"well.. you, you.. uhhggrr.. I still want you out!" she said trying to make her anger escape, one hand on her hip and the other pointing at him with her index finger. He didn't only turned out to be a lying mother!# he had to have a good memory too 'I swear I could so much hit him!!'
"Well I could gladly please you, in more then one way" his grin still lingering "but" his grin turning into a cold expression "I need to talk to you"
She could feel his change of mood and she remembered that this conversation had nothing to do with Mark.
"I have nothing to talk to you about" she said her voice becoming cold as well but not loosing its anger
"I need to ask you about what happened when you went to my house" he said taking a step towards her.
"Well I don't want you to ask me anything. I am very happy for you, congratulations" she said sarcastically "but right now I have a guest and I would gladly appreciate if you could leave" her voice really cold
"What do you mean congratulations?"
"I want you to leave" The topic was hurting. She not only had to live with the fact that he had lied to her, that he was happily back with his wife, she also had to tell it to his face.. that much she couldn't bear. "NOW"
"I'm not going anywhere until we've settle this" he took another step forward "I don't understand, please tell me what she said, what you said! I can not believe you don't feel anything for me anymore" his voice getting a higher pinch.
"Fine! You want to stay? STAY! But I'm getting out of here!"
Eriol was about to retort but she spoke before he could even have a chance
"And don't you dare follow me" she said in a threat pointing at him with her index finger.
She started walking to the door when she felt his hand grabbing her by the arm and turning her to him. In a swift move she was trapped in his arms.
"I thought I told you this conversation wasn't over"
"Ohh yes it is!" she said trying to break from his hold. She was really angry, he could see it, he could feel it
"I don't know why you are angry! I should be the one that's angry here!" He said failing to keep her in his restrain. She once again was making it to the door when she heard what he had said.
"WHAT?!"
"Well bloody hell!! I should be the one angry here! Not you! This is absurd! I don't get why this has to be so difficult!! If you don't love me just say so! You don't have to go telling the world you used me!!"
"What!! I used you?! Are you insane?! or just a lying mother# !! and.. and you should be angry? I'll give you angry!!" she said taking the very next thing next to her, a flower vase, and throwing it at him. She didn't hit him, actually she didn't even aimed at him, but it had made her free some stress. Eriol just froze.
"I'm tired of this! I'm tired of your lies!! I'm really happy that you got together with Kaho! So Now Go Home and be with your bitch of a wife for all I care!! I hope she makes you really miserable for lying to me!! And using ME!!" then she just turned around, walk thought the door and smashed it closed.
Eriol was perplex. He had never, in his whole life, seen Tomoyo this angry. And what was she talking about him getting back whit Kaho?
"What the hell?" he said in a whisper; still looking at the door like it could make Tomoyo reappear.
"Ohh I'll second that" said a voice from behind
Eriol turned around to find Mark in the kitchen door looking, just like he had, at the door.
"I have never, and I mean NEVER, seen her so angry" said Mark still looking at the door
Eriol turned around and looked at the door once more like it could bring some light into this mess, then he turned around once again and looked at Mark with questioning eyes
"What did she mean me getting back with Kaho?"
Yay!! All done!! Well this chapter at least!!
Ohh and 'Memories of Sadness' so you see it didn't turn out to be pretty after all.. jiji
Well hope you liked this chapter.. I know that last one pretty much sucked so I thank you for sticking to the fic and reading!
Love you guys !! bye!!
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