What Once Was
Chapter 10
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- Let's Ponder Around -
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Misaki was in her room hugging one of her fluffy white plush pillows while sitting on her comfortable, bouncy bed.
What am I going to do? She thought laying down on her bed. Maybe I should have moved on in the past year. I mean, I did go out on a lot of dates and I did have, like, two boyfriends. Besides, Usui has a fiance. Good God, he's going to marry her! It's not like I can do anything about that. And she's really pretty too.
Misaki heaved a sigh before turning onto her side. She looked out at the large window in her room and smiled at how sunny and pretty it looked outside.
"It's a perfect day to go outside and here I am trapped in my room thinking about some guy that's engaged!" Misaki cried out loud. "I must be losing it since I'm starting to talk to myself. Oh well."
She took her wallet from her bed side table and shoved on her shoes before going downstairs and leaving the house.
Maya and Erika were in Maid Latte helping out with the food and the customers when Misaki walked in.
"Hey Misa," Maya said, grabbing her cousin's arm. "It's a good thing you're here, the new girl helping out is so annoyingly helpful!"
"New girl?" Misaki asked, raising a perfectly plucked eyebrow.
"Yeah, her." Maya said jabbing a finger behind her.
Misaki cocked her head to the side and saw a girl holding two trays filled with plates, bowls, and cups who was gracefully moving around the shop giving them to the customers.
"Oh, Misaki!" Satsuki called out cheerfully. "Have you met Aoi's friend, Tamara? She's being such a big help in the cafe! Handling the customers, taking orders, and bringing trays of food in and out of the kitchen."
Aoi - dressed as a girl - stomped over to the group and hissed, "She is not my friend!"
"Then why in your website does it say that you two are best friends?" Honoka asked, quirking an eyebrow.
"Because I thought that it would be a good idea to put it on. I would probably get more fans by doing that. And besides, she's not really my friend. More like an annoying classmate." Aoi muttered.
"Okay, but that's how she looks like to the eyes of male Aoi, but to female Aoi, she's suppose to be your best friend. Which is why she's here right?" Maya asked.
"Wh-who do you think you are? She's here because she wants to bug the hell out of me!" Aoi said.
"But she knows your secret and hasn't told anyone so she should be considered as a close buddy at least." Erika said, joining the conversation.
"W-what is wrong with you guys today? Telling me that I should even consider her as a close buddy!" Aoi scoffed. He turned around and stomped into the kitchen at the same time Tamara went in there.
"I think that they would make a really good couple, don't you?" Misaki admitted as she watched them.
"Yeah, I'm sure they would." Satsuki said before ordering everyone back to their stations.
Maid Latte successfully distracted Misaki from her thoughts and questions about Usui, his fiance, and what happened in the year she was gone.
Usui was sitting down on the park bench as he watched a baseball game start.
He was thinking about Misaki and what happened to her in America. And he couldn't help but note how gorgeous she looked last night in the French restaurant ... with her date.
Usui heaved a sigh.
Of course she would be going out on a date with another person, he thought bitterly.
He noticed how his last kiss with her was more passionate than, and how she fully hugged him before leaving. At first, he dismissed it and thought that Misaki was putting too much effort into the girlfriend part. But now, he knew better.
In the first few months that Misaki left, he was acting like the impassive, somewhat inconsiderate jerk he acted when he first came to Seika High. The only changes being is that he is at Miyabigaoka High School instead of Seika High School, and that the class president isn't Ayuzawa Misaki but Igarashi freaking Tora.
Hmm, her name isn't Ayuzawa Misaki anymore, Usui thought while twirling a single grass blade between his fingers as he began to ponder. It's Jenna Chamberlain, who is the granddaughter of a person who owns a famous company spreading out into several parts of the world where it's still expanding.
Usui couldn't help but find this information to be interesting and even amusing. He would have never thought that this would even happen. And that's when he noticed that Misaki never talked about her mother's side of the family. Either because she didn't know about them, or she did know but didn't want to burden her crises on them. Even if they are her family.
A girl crying brought Usui out of his reverie and he watched as a girl around the age of nine sat on the grass holding onto her scrapped knee. The boy that she was playing with was bending down to help her with her injury. He got out a plastic water bottle and poured the cool water on the now bleeding knee.
And as if the boy knew that this was going to happen before hand, he reached inside his short's pocket and pulled out two Hello Kitty bandages and placed them on the girl's knee.
The girl who was now sniffling looked up at the boy with a grateful smile on her face. And Usui noticed how she was slightly blushing.
Again, Usui let out a sigh. He envy those children because they didn't have to worry about these things. Even though they're little kids, they obviously didn't give a care to the world and were free to do almost anything they wished to do.
Imagine that, Usui Takumi is jealous of a bunch of children.
But what was he worrying about anyway?
Clearly he could just forget about Misaki and move on like she did. And she has obviously moved on if she willingly went on a date with another guy.
The only problem was that Usui isn't ready to move on. Not yet, anyways.
The workers at Maid Latte finally got rid of the last of their customers. Whilst Misaki occupies herself with the busy work that needed to be done. But now that there wasn't anything to do, Misaki's mind wandered over to Usui again.
Why the heck am I thinking about that perverted alien anyways? Misaki asked herself. He has a fiance, for crying out loud! A freaking fiance!
"Hey Misa," Maya said as she slid onto the chair opposite of Misaki. "Carter's friends told me that Carter really enjoyed his date with you. His friends also told me that he's planning to take you out on another date, a regular, normal date probably one or two weeks away from now."
"And you're telling me this, why?" Misaki asked her cousin.
"Because I want to know if you're planning on saying yes." Maya replied.
"Since when did you care?"
"Since I started dating his best friend who is extremely hot and if you turn down Carter... imagine the awkward conversation we'll have if we're discussing it!"
"Whatever, fine."
"So are you going to say yes?"
"Depends on what's coming up in the one or two weeks he'll ask me."
"I have a hunch that you'll say yes."
Misaki snorted at her cousin's cheesy prediction. "Please, you only want me to say because you're worried about the conversation you'll have with Carter's friend. And I'm sure that by then you're already over him and have a new date coming up."
Maya gasped and put a hand over her heart. "You make me sound like a hoe!"
Misaki rolled her eyes, "It's true though, isn't it? Isn't that how guys are to you?"
Maya furrowed her eyebrows together. "No, it's just that I'm still trying to find the right one. And if the guy isn't the one I'm looking for, then why should I take a break from dating or going out? Especially since the next guy asked me. Not the other way around, Cuz."
Misaki looked at her cousin and decided that what she said was harsh and that her cousin was probably right. "Alright then, I'm sorry."
Maya nodded and slipped out the chair before making a conversation with one of the workers.
Her dialog with Maya successfully took Misaki's mind off of Usui, but the second Maya left, Misaki immediately thought about last night. And seeing Usui with his fiance made her stomach turn and she began to wonder what he was doing right now. She immediately stoped when a thought popped into her head.
This is so going to kill me!
A/N:
Big shout out to:
violetshade
Winheart
Shadows and Effects
x-Blue Diamond-x
namikazepamela
Samara Sophie
kucharath
shawnmisakiusui
whointheworldwouldbelievethat
Thais Yuuki
rocky9999
TheLostLittleDevil
For reviewing, alerting, and favoriting my story! I love you guys, and thanks to all of you who are still reading this story I just want you to know that it is keeping me motivated to write and update more chapters.
I also love the silent readers too :)
But I love violetshade even more for beta-reading this chapter! i had no idea how many mistakes where in here, so I just want to give her a special, big THANK YOU! (Although I'm not sure about the last mistake, I was a bit confused so I just changed the sentence, hopefully it's still good?)
I know for a fact that this is going to be a long story seeing how it took me nine chapters for the Usui and Misaki to finally notice each other. Ten for having them think about one another, and who knows how long before they see each other again and have a real conversation!
Hopefully soon though.
I'll reply to the reviews now:
shawnmisakiusui : Thanks! I wasn't sure if anyone would like how Usui was acting. Not really doing anything and whatnot ... Heh, heh.
whointheworldwouldbelievethat : I'm sure that everyone would love for that happen but it seems that you'll have to be patient, my dear. And I can't believe that a reader would think that Genie's cool. And if you hate Sarah so much, then I'm sure that you'll end up loving Genie somewhere at the sixteenth or seventeenth chapter!
rocky9999 : Why thank you, I was worried if no one was going to like because of the boring dialog I put between Misaki and Carter and how Usui was pretty much acting very ... impassive and what not. But I guess that the last few lines of the chapter gave away some of his caring side.
TheLostLittleDevil : Yeah, I guess that it is reasonable to build up on their characters. It wouldn't feel right if I jumped through their characters, immediately make them fall in love, go against everyone else's wishes, and live happily ever after with one another. It would be rushing and I'm not one to rush. But I don't want the story take long to end with so many chapters, which is why I decided to have these chapters where they think about one another, see each other, talk to one another, etc. I want a smooth story, not a rushed story. Just go with a realistic flow, you know? Hopefully you'll like the future chapters. That's where it gets interesting, so stick around!
Samara Sophie : Mmm hmm, I'm trying my best to keep them in character. If they were to be OOC, it would have gone against part of the reason why I re-wrote this story. I had to keep some things in mind while writing their Meet. Sure it's not as big as everyone would have wanted it to be, but still ... And I'm not sure if Usui did plan on bumping into her. Maybe it's fate playing its part?
x-Blue Diamond-x : Your welcome, and I'll try my best to update as soon as the chapters are ready, and good to go. I'll try to edit them though because they feel so ... unready and unprepared to go out there! LOL
Shadows and Effects : Thank you! And yeah, I had a feeling that the story gets interesting after they meet. I'm already starting on the seventeenth chapter and I kinda left a few cliff-hangers. Nothing too major, though. Actually, I'm not even sure if they can even be considered as cliff hangers. LOL :))
Thais Yuuki : Just updated! And ... why am I hearing a dog crying outside of my window?