A/N I'm BAAACCKK! Alright, here it is, my latest chapter. I wont say anymore now, just enjoy.
Disclaimer: Tôi sở hữu không có gì nhưng cốt truyện của tôi và tôi chỉ đơn thuần là thưởng thức chơi với các nhân vật.
I stared at Naru. "Bu-But you haven't! You have done nothing wrong!" I said, continuing to search his piercing eyes for help. "You can't have, wouldn't have, physically couldn't." My ramblings continued for a while. Eventually Lin moved over from where he had been sat at the monitors.
"Mai, go and get some air, clear your head and then we will revisit the matter." I nodded and shakily stood up and moved out of the large dining room and up the grand central staircase. The whole house seemed silent, still, serene. No one was around. I moved up the steps, racked with a sense of guilt and sadness towards the balcony from my dream on the plane.
I stopped. MY DREAM! The whole reason for my episode in the kitchen came rushing back.
I turned and ran back the way I had come. My legs felt strong now and I was practically flying through the air.
When I finally got to the double doors that lead onto the dining room I was running flat out. Naru was stood at the other end of the room, seperate from everything else not moving. "NARU!" I ran at him calling his name. Luckily he managed to catch me when i thought myself at him, wrapping my legs around his hips locking my feet together and my hands grabbed his shoulders.
He looked at me, a mixture of bemusement, worry, fear and anger evident in his normally veiled eyes. Before he could say anything I blurted out everything. "It wasn't you! My dream, ya know, the one on the plane? Well I saw this beautiful bride getting pushed off a balcony on her wedding day by some guy, its the same balcony as upstairs and in the kitchen the ghost kept replaying the sounds of her body hitting the tiles then when I was passed out I just kept hearing his voice, the one who killed the women and she was using my body as a vessel to tell him to go away and leave her alone and that he'd already hurt her! It was the ghost! Not me or you!" I garbled on without taking a breath tears falling from my eyes. Finally I stopped talking and looked at the boy supporting my weight.
Relief washed over his face and we both got tunnel vision. He captured my lips in the sweetest most tender kiss we had ever exchanged, both of us forgetting where we were. Finally we came up for air and the spell that had encased us in our own little world was broken and we became aware of our surroundings. Madoka and Yasu were whistling, cat-calling and heckling us from the sofas to our right whilst Ayako held back Bou-san whilst he ranted on about killing the man that was defiling his little girl.
Finally, with my cheeks burning a strong shade of red, I release my legs a little indicating I wished to be put down, but Naru refused simply walking over to his chair and sitting down with me in his lap, his arm around my waist.
"Takigawa-san, I am hardly 'defile' Mai as you put it, it was merely a kiss,"he said glaring at the older man who was beginning to calm down, in an attempt to gloss over our little PDA.
"Yeah, plus I'm not 'your little girl" either! Um hello? 17? Above the age of consent both in the country we currently reside and my homeland?" I added, getting pretty annoyed that our perfect couple moment had been ruined by my obnoxious family.
They all smiled at me and Yas open his mouth to make some dig at exactly what I was consenting to but Naru cut in before he had a chance to articulate his thoughts. "Yasuhara-san, John, please accompany Madoka to my parents offices across London. I require any and all information you can gather about this houses history, especially anything relating to a wedding..." He trailed off looking at me for some further details. "Airi, the brides name was Airi" I informed the guys before they followed Madoka out towards the garage.
"Ayako, please do a scan of all the rooms in the house, take Bou-san with you to help you take readings and make sure to be in constant communication with base via the walkie talkies. From now on no one moves around unaccompanied and without a way to communicate with base. I have a feeling this is not going to end easily and without someone getting hurt." His had on my waist gripped tighter, pulling me into his hard chest as he spoke. I had a feeling it was going to be a while before he would release me from his hold.
"Lin, please make me, Mai and yourself, if you so wish, some tea," I thought I felt him shudder as he said that, was Lin's tea honestly that bad? "Then we are going to go through Mai's dream again in detail whilst you make notes on you laptop, seeing as I am currently unable to write for myself."
Later that day we had returned to the Davis house after nothing further had happened at the casse. I guess the ghosts whereas tired as I was after our little encounter that morning.
It had taken a few hours for Naru to finally release me from his lap, after I had quietly explained how, after politely sipping at Lins, er, ineresting attempts at tea, I need to answer mother natures call.
Currently, I was sat in the armchair in my room thinking about what has happened that day, my dream and how different Naru had seemed since our kiss that afternoon.
I had expected him to act shy, reserved, even angry towards me in an attempt to cover over any embarrassment he felt by showing something so private to our whole makeshift family but instead he had kept me close to him the whole day, escorting my to all tea runs and simply holding my hand whilst we watched the monitors.
I am not use to this side of Naru. He seemed so calm and content in England, much more so then I have ever seen him be in Japan. I was beginning to like the change, I felt like a real couple. It was nice.
The white intercom by my main door crackled into life, "Everyone, dinner is nearly ready and Luella wishes to see you all in the dining room in 5 minutes to introduce tonights guest." Martins voice left with a crackle of static, breaking me from my trance.
Naru strolled through the adjoining door into my room as though both spaces belonged solely to him. "Ready?" he asked waiting for me to walk down to dinner with him.
Untucking my legs from where they had been placed underneath me I nodded and slowly made my way out of the room. "Mai, you're walking odd, is your leg okay?" Naru asked, dropping back a couple steps to see me walk. Biting my lip to hold back giggles I nodded, "Pins and Needles, they are almost gone now" I reassured him, swinging into the drawing room adjacent to the dining hall.
I stopped dead. By the extravegant firepalce stood a beautiful girl about Naru's age. She was impossibly slim with neverending legs and poker straight blond hair that hit her hips. She turned to see who had entered and her electric blue eyes scaned over me befor setting on the boy at my side. "NOLL!" She rushed over to him giving him a tight hug. "It's so good to see you again! I knew you'd come back to me!" And with that she places a kiss square on his lips.
A/N
Thank you so much to all the follows/faves/alerts I have had in my time away. GCSE's are done and out the way and I am officially on Summer (WHOOP WHOOP) so to celebrate that, and me getting my own laptop again, here is another chapter.
Many of you know I am hopelessly romantic hence the large amount of fluff in this chapter but the next few chapters are going to give Mai and Naru's relationship a beating so it is kinda need. Plus my future cases are kinda hinged on a slight change in private-life-Naru that begins with an OOC work-life-Naru.
Also you have more case to come and to do that the gang needed to hear the dream that Mai had on the plane as it had not been released to everyone yet.
Stick with me and the case will reveal itself, and it is not going to be a neat and tidy one either.
I hope (notice the word hope) to update about once a week this summer, depending on my shift pattern and will probably get a few chapters written when I go to cornwall for a week in a tiny cottage without internet connection. But I have found the local wifi cafe and will update if I can as they are written.
As always, I love you all. Show me your reciprocation of my love by leaving me a review.
Ellie xx