Chapter 10

Miyuki finished up the last of her documents and placed them in a folder to deliver them. She walked down the hall and towards another desk and left the folder on it.

She then began to walk towards the exit to finally go home and relax or maybe go see Maxine, she was just dying to hold her right now.

As she neared the exit a fellow coworker approached her, -"Excuse me, Ms. Rokujo!"- He caught up to her.

Miyuki stopped in her tracks, -"Yes?"-

-"I didn't mean to bother you,"- He began, -"But I was hoping if you could look these over?"- He extended his hand with a small folder of documents.

Miyuki looked at it, then looked at him, -"Hell no,"- She said as a smirk formed on her face, -"I'm on vacation."- she said which stunned the man, he was truly not expecting Miyuki to say no at all, she was never one to say no.

she turned back around, -"Now then, have a good day and try to settle that yourself."- she walked out the building and into her car then took off.

Maxine sat on her sofa with her little sister next to her, "Hey Alli," she began, "How are you liking Japan? I don' think I ever even asked you dat."-

["It's been okay, the people in school have been nice to me."]

"What 'bout dad? He been cool with you?" She asked her.

["Well, he's mostly been busy with work so he's hardly ever around at the house."]

"So you've been alone dis whole time?"

She nodded.

"Why didn' you ever tell me?"

Allison looked away, ["I didn't want to bother you."]

Maxine wrapped her arm around her, "Your my sista, ya cant ever bother me ya know dat. If anythin I'm always here for you if you need me, all you gotta do is call me."

["Thanks."] she smiled but it faded just as quickly.

"You okay sis?"

["Not really,"] She put her hands down, then finally looked at her sister, ["I can't stand this anymore, I can't hear anything and my voice is gone!"]

Maxine sighed, "It's gonna be alright sis, there has to be sumthin dat will help you."

["We've been through that, there's nothing."]

Maxine wrapped her arm around her sister, "Nah ya can't give up so easily, we'll find sumthin." She looked at her little sister, seeing tears roll down her cheeks, "Hey come on, look at me," Maxine wiped the tears away from her eyes, "As long as we're together I promise it'll all be better little one."

The two sisters embraced.

Maxine kissed Allison's forehead, "By da way, I wanted to ask you sumthin."

["What?"]

"If… If I wanted to stay in Japan, would you want to stay with me?"

["Of course I would!"] Her expression quickly changed, ["It be the coolest thing ever to be with you all the time!"]

"I'm happy to hear dat." She hugged her once more

The door opened up, Maxine's father walked inside, "Oh hey girls, didn't realize you came to visit Maxine."

"Jus' checkin up on my little sista."

"That's good to hear," He walked over to the counter, "By the way girls, start packing. We're finally headed home."

"What?"

"Yeah, everything went well and I'm no longer needed here so we can head home."

"Took'em long enough."

"I know right," He laughed, "We've been here forever but now we can go back home."

Maxine smiled, "I'm not going."

"What?" He stopped what he was doing and looked at his daughter.

"I'm staying here."

"What? Why?"

Maxine stood up, "Cause I met someone, and I love her. So I'm stayin, besides I'm doin fine on my own."

"Are you sure this is what you want?"

"Yea, I'm sure."

Allison walked up next to her sister, ["I'm staying too."]

He ran his hand though his hair, "Your mother isn't going to like this."

"Da fuck does she care, she hasn't bothered to call me or Alli since we've been here." Maxine shot back.

"Alli are you sure this is what you want?" He asked her to which she nodded, he could only sigh, "Alright, I'll promise to come visit you girls."

"You're actually okay with this?" Maxine asked.

"Yeah, you're old enough to make your own decisions and so is Allison, but I trust you'll take good care of her."

"I will."

He walked up and hugged his girls, "I'm going to miss you girls."

"So will we."

He looked over his daughters, and with a smile he left back to his room to pack and was confident his girls could take care of themselves and he would not object to Maxine wanting to stay, she was always a wild one.

Maxine looked at Allison, "Well come on sista, lets go visit Miyuki." Allison nodded happily and the two got on Maxine's bike and drove off to go see her.

"We're here," Maxine stopped the bike in front of Miyuki's home, "Wha'chu think?"

Allison looked around, she was truly impressed by their, ["It's amazing."]

"I know, samethin I thought too." They walked up the steps and rung the door bell then waited patiently.

The door swung open, "Yoo! Max!" Esmeralda shook her hand and did they're usual handshake, "Didn't expect to see here dude."

"Thought I'd drop by." She smiled then looked her little sister, "This is Allison."

"Nice to meet ya Allison." Esmeralda shook her hand, one she returned but was unable to say anything so after letting go of her hand she communicated with her own hands.

"She says she's happy to meet ya." Maxine translated for her and it slightly confused Esmeralda and Maxine anticipated it, "She's deaf…" Her expression dropped.

"Oh dude… I'm sorry."

"Yea…," Maxine then looked around, "So uh is Miyuki home?"

"Yeah, let me get her," Esmeralda turned around, "Miyuki! Your girlfriend is here!" She shouted and stepped aside, "Come on in guys."

Maxine looked at Esmeralda, "So man, how does it feel to be married?"

"Oh my god dude, it's the best thing ever! Amo a Shizuma con todo my corazon! I honestly thought this would never happen in my life!"

"Sounds great man," Maxine smiled at her, "So when's da honeymoon?"

"Tomorrow actually, we're gonna start packing soon," Esmeralda ran her hand through her hair, "Shizuma wants to take me to Las Vegas."

"Damn that's fuckin awesome."

"Lo se, I told her she didn't have to take me to something like that but she insisted."

"Never been but I hope ya have a good time," She looked around, "Where is Shizuma anyway?"

Esmeralda looked towards another room, "She's in there, a friend of hers dropped by, um, Chi-ka-ru I think it was."

"Ah, a'ight."

After a moment Miyuki came down the stairs, "Max!" She leapt into Maxine's arms and embraced each other.

"Heya sweetheart," they kissed, "Missed ya."

"I missed you too!" Miyuki slowly pulled away from her.

"Hey Mera."

"Yeah?"

"Can you take Allison and show her around," Maxine then told Allison to accompany Esmeralda.

"Of course," She held Allison's hand and led her to the room where Shizuma was with Chikaru.

Esmeralda stepped in the room, seeing Shizuma showing Chikaru some of their photos of their wedding.

-"This is beautiful Shizuma-chan!"- Chikaru flipped through the photos, -"I'm so happy for you!"-

-"Arigato Chikaru, I can't believe that I'm actually married."-

-"Did you not expect to settle down?"- Chikaru asked.

-"Honestly no I didn't, not for the longest time, I thought I'd just be alone but everything changed when I met her."- Shizuma could only smile at the mere thought of Esmeralda.

Before they could say more, they turned their heads and saw Esmeralda leading another girl into the room, "Hey girls, this is Allison, Maxine's sister."

Shizuma stood up with a smile on her face, "Pleased to meet you Allison." She shook her hand.

"Good to meet you too Allison-san." Chikaru shook her hand as well.

Allison, typed into her phone and it spoke for her, ["Pleased to meet you all."]

The two girls were slightly confused but Esmeralda answered for them, "She's deaf…"

"I'm so sorry," Chikaru felt terrible, "So how do we…?" Shizuma followed up.

Esmeralda nodded, "Maxine told me that she can read lips."

Chikaru looked at Allison, "I'm Chikaru." She then grabbed Allison's hand and led her to the sofa to sit down, "I have to say, that's such a cute look for you." Chikaru looked her over, white skirt, black stockings and a sleeveless turtle neck just screamed cute to Chikaru.

"And there she goes, she moves in fast." Shizuma chuckled.

"Como? Like she's hitting on her or something?" Esmeralda asked.

"No, she's just real friendly and she has a way to make anyone feel comfortable."

"Ah okay."

The two of them also took a seat while Chikaru talked to her.

"So Allison-chan, we're going to make a special dinner for Shizuma and Esmeralda before they go on their honeymoon."

Allison lit up, ["I know, I'm so happy for you two!"]

"So do you have a favorite food?" Chikaru asked and watched Allison type on her phone.

["Anything with chicken is fine by me."]

"Oh then we're set then," Chikaru clapped her hands together, "Oh by the way Allison-chan, if its not asking too much since we just met, there are some outfits I would like you to try!" her face was just gleaming.

["Outfits?"]

"Yes, I made them and I was going to have Shizuma-chan try them on but I think she's too tall for them, so I would like for you to try them, if its okay?"

Allison thought about it for a second, ["Um sure."]

"Great! You'll have fun I promise," Chikaru giggled, "I also have some things planned for all of us to do and make their day fun before they go."

"Vaya Chikaru, you really go all out huh." Esmeralda giggled.

"Oh yes, anything for people I care about."

Shizuma pulled Esmeralda closer, "She's not kidding, back at school she was adored by all her classmates because of her amazing personality, she made all the young students feel welcomed and not be fearful. She made so many clubs for her school and her classmates."

Chikaru only smiled, "I just love doing these things."

"Dude that's amazin, well I'm sure Allison is gonna have a good time then."

"With all of us here, I'm sure of it." Shizuma added and they all resumed talking and even included Allison in a lot of their things and as for Allison, she was happy to have met some nice people she could call friends.

Back in the other room, "Will she be okay?" Miyuki asked.

"Oh hell yea man, don'chu worry." Maxine glanced in the other room, seeing Allison getting along with everyone else, "Hopefully this makes her forget 'bout her pain…"

"She's just as strong as you, I'm sure she will."

"Yea," Maxine then wrapped her arm around Miyuki and led her to the other room, "By the way sweetheart, I got'cha a lil' sumthin,"

"What? What is it?"

"Now now, turn aroun' and close your eyes."

Miyuki raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms, "Maxine, should I be worried?"

Maxine almost laughed but held it, "No no, don'chu worry I anit gonna trick ya or whatever jus' trust me."

Miyuki did so and turned around, then closed her eyes.

"Extend your arms a little." Miyuki did so and could hear something being un-done, like wrapping paper of sorts. Miyuki then felt Maxine's hand guide her arms into something, then her other arm and gently placing it around her back.

"A'ight, you can open your eyes."

Miyuki did so and was standing in front of a mirror and she saw exactly what it was and was surprised.

"Got'cha your own leather jacket, pretty awesome right?"

"It's amazing," Miyuki looked at herself in all angles, her leather jacket almost matched her hair in color except her jacket was a darker shade of blue and it looked amazing on her, "Thank you so much." She turned around and kissed her amazing girlfriend.

"Anythin for you babe," She then wrapped her arm around her, "Hey come outside for a minute, I wanna talk to you."

"Uh-oh, this can't be good." Miyuki giggled with a grin on her face.

"Shut up, it anit bad news." She shook her head with a smile on her own face, "Now come on."

"Alright alright," the two stepped outside and began to walk around a while, just enjoying the chill breeze and the warm sunlight surrounding them.

"So damn man, Shizuma and Mera going to vegas, dat's pretty cool."

"It is. They probably might stay there for two weeks."

Maxine smirked, "So da house is gonna be empty huh besides you."

"Yup, I was thinking maybe... you would you like to stay?"

"Well now ya read my mind." She giggled then her expression turned slightly serious but she still retained that smile, "Hey listen…"

"Yes?" Miyuki could see that slight change in her girlfriend.

"Wha'chu think ya gonna be doin for the next ten, twenty years?"

Miyuki was confused by that, "What? I don't know… why?"

Maxine exhaled with a slight chuckle and fiddled with her hands, "Well I was wonderin, ya know if you'd like to get married."

Miyuki stopped in her tracks, "What did you say?"

Maxine turned to look at her, then parted her Miyuki's hair over her ear as gesture so that she 'could hear better', "I said, if you'd like to get married?" She repeated with a warm smile.

Miyuki looked away for a moment, how did this come to happen? She was married once and it was forced, she always felt that she could never do something as getting married anymore ever since what was supposed to be a beautiful wedding, a once in a life time moment was ruined by her parents, so then why was this making her feel so… happy, she would've been happy to have just been her girlfriend but getting asked to get married... just left her speechless.

After a short silence Miyuki looked up at her, "Yes."

Maxine felt like she get the wind knocked out of her, she reeled back with a big grin on her face then faced Miyuki once more, "Yea?" she asked just to be sure she heard right.

"Yeah, I would love to get married with you."

Maxine hugged her and kissed her deeply, slowly she pulled away and her smile was just infectious, "I promise I'll be good, I anit gonna do nothin bad or anythin I promise." Maxine said.

Miyuki was about to say something but instead said nothing, not wanting to ruin the moment and embraced her, "I know you will and so will I."

Maxine turned around and jumped in excitement, "Woooo!" and it was unable to contain itself, then ran back to Miyuki, "God damn sweetheart, you have no idea how happy you just made me!"

Miyuki looked down, a smile forming on her face once more and with a warm sensation in her heart she said, "You have no idea how happy you made me, Maxine."

"God... I love ya." She kissed Miyuki once more, true love filled with each kiss, "So anywhere ya like to go babe?"

"I'd rather be here, with you."

"A'ight."

The two walked back inside to join their friends but the two could not deny how happy they felt to have finally joined their lives in such a beautiful way, now it was only a matter of time till their own wedding and they looked forward to it, no matter how long they thought it would take.

A/N: I'm going to be honest, this was intended to be the last chapter but as i was about to finish this chapter i decided that I could do one more chapter, so one more to go hope you guys have been enjoying it and hope you guys have a good day! =D