... Oh my... so many people called the ending of Chapter Ten a cliffhanger...
You must be kidding me! That was in no way intended to be a cliffhanger in any perspective, wow!
And YES – this IS an Inu-Yasha/Kagome fic. D
Anyway... because I noticed that I was 'killing' some readers for leaving my chapters continuously in a sort of edging tendency; I decided to update quickly, Enjoy!
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Chapter Eleven
A Kiss is just a Kiss
..................Kagome groaned as she was pulled straight out of her bench chair and at once pushed forward by Sesshoumaru. "We have to go back to the mansion; I can hear the cars driving up towards us."
Just as said so by Sesshoumaru - a rusty white van with its front mirror bent, giving it a trademark sign pulled up right in front of them, almost crashing into the table. As soon as it screeched to a halt, the side door slid open with a bang and a cameraman with a frustrated woman holding a microphone came rustling out, straightening themselves in time.
"Oh, hello – may we ask you a question?"
Kagome felt her heat take a dangerous leap. This was not good... not good at all.
"No, you may not." Sesshoumaru replied firmly pushing Kagome further ahead in silence, though he didn't get far before a dozen screeching vans and cars came jolting by. At least a half of a hundred reporters came crowding around them, asking the same question over and over again.
Kagome scrunched her eyes as she felt the heat of the camera's flashing burn down on her face and whimpered as she noticed Karira, Rin, Inu-Yasha, Mr. and Mrs. Taisho had all vanished, leaving her alone with Sesshoumaru.
Biting her bottom lip as Sesshomaru tried to push away the reporters, as the blinding flashes coming her way were starting to make her see pink circles everywhere. She felt a pang of worry as she saw a crowd of reporters surrounding Sesshoumaru himself and while she was now facing the other half of the press alone.
"How long have you all been dating?"
"Any plans of getting engaged?"
"Is there a baby on the way?"
Kagome jolted her head towards the woman who had asked the last question – what the hell? Gathering up her courage, she gulped before talking. "No, there aren't any recent plans of getting engaged and there sure isn't a baby coming this way!" she yelled out, almost going deaf at the uproar of her statement.
"Get outtathe way!"
Kagome looked to her side as she saw Inu-Yasha push a cameraman and photographer out of the way, growling as he did so. Not knowing what he was going to do next, she winced as he reached for her and grasped onto her wrist with his claws scraping her skin a little. Just as he did so, the camera's snapped away like crazy, as if catching a priceless moment.
"So the rumors are true!"
"Mister Inu-Yasha Taisho, can you please tell us how you both met?"
"Sir, is this a long term relationship?"
Inu-Yasha narrowed his eyes as he pushed himself through the reporters, dragging Kagome on behind him. Ignoring all the questions and flashes thrown his way, he simply made his way through the crowd, despite all the screaming, pulling and begging.
Just as Kagome thought they would reach fresh air, the crowd ran along with them making all her hopes drench in the pits of her guts.
"By authority, stand back or we'll be forced to take action!"
Kagome took in a deep breath (though she wished she hadn't as all she inhaled was the smell of sweat and bad breath) as she saw a whole handful of security guards start to pull everyone back, making way for Inu-Yasha and Kagome.
It took a mere second for them to reach the black van waiting for them, and she gulped as Inu-Yasha pulled her in not knowing where the hell they were going to be taken. As a security guard outside of the van quickly shut the door, the driver stepped on the engine and the van zoomed out of the hectic status.
"For god's sake, that was uncalled for."
Letting out a big sigh, Kagome rubbed her temples letting the comment Inu-Yasha had just said roll off her side. Flumping backwards on her seat, she let out a long groan while Inu-Yasha clicked on their seatbelts.
After a whole five minutes of just silence, Kagome decided to speak. "This isn't fair..."
Inu-Yasha snorted. "It's your fault, you could've -."
"That's all you care about isn't it?! Whose fault it is and who's it isn't, well I don't care! Nobody moves along in their life if you revolve around 'could've, should've and would've' so drop it!" Glaring at him deathly for a mere second, Kagome snapped her head towards the window and sighed, as she saw nothing but the black window. "And how come I can't see anything outside?"
"Special windows so people can't throw bombs at us and crap." He said shortly, not replying to the heart filled sentence she had stated before.
Kagome sighed as the car fell into elapsed silence. Truth to be told, the day had started off great and now... it just blew right up her face. Nothing could describe the gut churning feeling she had in her guts. Sure, she was slightly happy that the secret was off of her shoulders, but what really worried her was how the outburst from her friends, and family would be.
Closing her eyes and burying her face in her hands, she tried to ignore the nervousness roaming her stomach. Just... what was going to happen from now on? She was smart enough to know that she couldn't go back to her shrine until the outburst died down and she knew that by now that Sango and Ayame had definitely heard the news.
"You okay?"
Kagome lifted her head slowly, glancing towards Inu-Yasha – almost baffled at the question. Even though he had made it sound as gruff as possible, she couldn't help but notice the lace of concern.
"Just worried." She said quietly and sighed again, wondering where the driver was taking them and knowing for sure that the mansion hadn't been this far away. "What's going to happen from now on?"
Inu-Yasha exhaled deeply. "Well, one thing is for sure –that my girlfriends are dumping me."
Rolling her eyes, Kagome shook her head. "I'm not asking what's going to happen to you, I'm asking what's going to happen to me!"
"How would I know? I'm not some physic dude; all I know is that right now, we're heading back to the mansion." Looking away, Inu-Yasha reached forward for the mini-refrigerator and took out a can of soda. Popping it open, he gulped it down making his trademark notion that he didn't want to talk about it anymore.
"But if we were going back to the mansion –." Kagome started but was cut off as Inu-Yasha lowered his soda and sighed, showing clearly that he was annoyed.
"We're just sending the reporters on a wild goose chase. They wont know where we're staying if we go the wrong direction, so all in all, we're going back home, after we run around the island for a while."
Kagome sighed as she looked at the mini-television on the ceiling of the van, 'I guess all I can do is just wait and see...'
x.x
"You both are finally back!" Karira yelled out as she got up from the couch in the living room, running towards Inu-Yasha and Kagome who were standing in the doorway – looking quite tired.
"I never knew sending the reporters on a wild goose chase meant driving around the Island for a whole two hours!" Kagome mumbled, sending a snappy look at Inu-Yasha for a mere second before walking in the mansion and sitting down miserably on the sofa beside her little brother.
"Stuff it, wench" Growling out his words, Inu-Yasha walked in, ignoring the anxious family completely and heading straight for the stairs. "I don't have time for this."
However, his mother spoke up before he got the chance to climb even the first few steps "Hold it right there," she said and coughed as he growled with frustration, limping to a dead stop to his mothers words. "We have to sort this out, so come back here Inu-Yasha."
"Sort what out?" Inu-Yasha spoke back in a pressed voice, careful not to raise his voice with his mother in front of his father.
"You know completely well what I'm talking about, so come back and sit down on the sofa!" Closing the conversation before Inu-Yasha could fit another word in; everyone took their places, Kagome being the one who was most anxious of them all.
Clearing his throat to gain everyone's attention, Mr. Taisho spoke first. "Well, we all know about the whole incident..."
"No duh..." Inu-Yasha murmured as he reached the couch, flopping down beside Kagome.
"Inu-Yasha – shut up!" Sesshoumaru dabbed loudly at Inu-Yasha as he shot out a sarcastic remark, pissing almost everyone off in the room.
Acting as if he hadn't heard anything, Mr. Taisho continued on. "Anyway... now that this is out, the best thing to do is to contact your parents Kagome," he nudged his head towards the phone on the table nearby the couch. "But another problem we have here is... is that people think that Kagome's dating Inu-Yasha."
Looking around to see if anyone objected in any manner, Mr. Taisho continued on as no one spoke a word. "If we go and tell them that Kagome and Inu-Yasha aren't dating, everyone will think Yash' is a whore for getting so close to a woman without any consent of a relationship."
Kagome gulped as she felt everything crashing down around her. She did not like the trail that this conversation was leading onto...
"And if we tell the press that they both 'broke up', they'll get an impression that the relationship ended just because everyone knew about it, giving my son another bad name." Mr. Taisho cleared his throat before continuing. "So – we have no choice but to-."
"Oh god, please no!" Kagome yelled out before he got to finish. "There is no way I'm going to pretend that I'm his girlfriend! It's not fair for me! It wasn't my fault they got those darned photos-."
"Oh Kagome, but it's a dead end situation if we do anything else," Karira spoke up with pleading eyes. "You both could pretend you're dating until everything cools down, and then when no one cares about it anymore, you could cut it off!"
Kagome was about to speak up but Inu-Yasha butted in before she had a chance to. "What about me?! Patrisha, Mona, Lilly, Samantha, and all the rest – they'll all break up with me! I'll be single, and I haven't been single for years!"
"Technically, you'll still be dating... you'd have Kagome..." Mrs. Taisho said weakly, hoping to god that this whole idea would work out.
"No way!" Both Inu-Yasha and Kagome jumped off of their cushioned seats at this, the words spilling out of their mouths at the same time.
"I can barely stand being in the same room as him and now you all are asking me to pretend as if I'm his girlfriend?!" Kagome yelled, pointing a threatening finger at Inu-Yasha.
"It'd be hell acting as if she's my girlfriend, no one would fall for it-."
Before Inu-Yasha got to say another word, Mr. Taisho stood up, silencing everyone in the room. "It's settled then. Until everything cools down, you both are going to pretend as if you're both having a relationship."
"Yeah, a relationship of hate..." Kagome muttered as she got up from the couch, making her way to the stairs without a word.
x.x
"Sango, get the popcorn out of the microwave before it blows up!" Ayame yelled from the living room from her seat on the carpet. Sighing, as she heard no reply from Sango, she got up lazily from the carpet and walked hurriedly to the kitchen, pulling open the microwave door before the packet of popcorn burst from the heat. Throwing the packet from hand to hand due to the heat, she quickly ran back to the living room and threw the packet on the carpet.
"Did you say anything Ayame?!" A muffled yell came from upstairs, sounding distinctively like Sango.
Growling, Ayame shook her head. "Forget it."
It took a few minutes or so, but Sango finally came back down to the living room, holding a stack of magazines with an insane smile on her face. "I bought all of these today!"
Ayame squealed, throwing down her pen on the floor, forgetting the papers of homework she was supposed to be working on. Pulling Sango to sit down beside her, she picked up the first magazine. Scanning over the front page, she picked up the second magazine... then the third... then the fourth. "This is weird... how come all of them have something on Inu-Yasha Taisho?"
Sango shrugged. "I don't know, I mean, I was going to school this morning and heard my mom watching a breaking news about Inu-Yasha, I would've stopped to watch but I was going to be late for class."
"...And when we got to school, everyone was talking about Inu-Yasha as well." Ayame pointed out and raised her eyebrows as she noticed every single magazine's front cover had Inu-Yasha's picture on it.
Nevertheless, Sango's face burst into a wide grin. "Anyway, why the hell are we complaining? Let's see what the fuss is about!"
Ayame giggled, "Yeah, thought we lost it there for a while..." shaking her head out of the demoralization, she shuffled through the magazines until she found the one she was looking for. "Aha! Star Weekly!"
Looking at the front cover, Ayame's stomach took a leap as she saw Inu-Yasha reaching out to hold a girl's wrist. "Sango, doesn't she look like Kagome?"
Leaning over to look at what Ayame was pointing at, Sango scrunched her eyebrows as she studied the picture. "Whoa, you're right, she does!" Throwing away the magazine she was currently reading to the right, she shuffled over beside Ayame to look at hers.
Peering closely at the picture, Sango bit her bottom lip. "Well, loads of girls out there could look like her." She said, shrugging coincidently.
Nodding, Ayame read the headline. "Love blooms at last?"
Shaking her head, Sango hurriedly spoke up. "Go to the page of the article... there, page eighteen! Hurry up..." she said, flipping the page to the designated number, somehow having a very bad feeling about this.
Smoothing out the paper as they reached page eighteen, Ayame skimmed the pictures of the page, a dread creeping up her throat as the girl in each picture seemed more and more like their best friend.
"It say's here that Inu-Yasha's been having a secret relationship with that girl." Sango said, pointing to the picture where both of them were holding smoothies.
"But he said he was single..." Ayame mourned silently, not a bit happy with the news, but of course, that wasn't all.
"Here, listen to this..." Sango said, clearing her throat she caught an interesting line. "Of course, a celebrity does want to have his privacy so due to that reason; the relationship was kept secret. However, a recent incident shows that when reporters went to ask the lady about the love life, a blaze of over protectiveness blared over Inu-Yasha Taisho as he came and pulled her away from the scene. The identity of the secret girlfriend has been revealed and surprisingly, it was discovered that she has no role in the celebrity status, so it's only more proving that this relationship was indeed based on love at first sight. The woman, named..."
Sango stopped as her breath hitched in her throat, her stomach lurching a deathly 360-degree turn as she read the next two words. It couldn't be...
It was impossible...
But – it was right there, in front of her eyes, pictures to prove it all.
Ayame looked at Sango annoyingly as she didn't continue. "Go on... finish the sentence! Who's the girl?"
Sango gulped, pushing down the lump that had formed in her throat. "Kagome... Kagome Higurashi."
x.x
It had been a restless night, even though she wasn't sick anymore, she still couldn't get to sleep. She hated those nights. She was tired, exhausted from the events of the day but the annoying feeling in her stomach kept her awake, disallowing her to fall asleep.
Breathing into her pillow, she whined as she thought about the situation. Mrs. Taisho had called her mom and they had had a long, long conversation and now it was settled that her parents would be arriving at the Villa to stay with them due to the reason that their privacy was being ruined. Her mom didn't seem to be bothered by the situation, and when she talked to Kagome on the phone, she just said everything would be fine and there was nothing to worry about.
Apart from that, she also found out that she had just received her pathway to go to the D.A.H.A. Groaning; she turned around to stare at the ceiling. 'So I'm actually going to the awards... what a surprise.'
Not only that, but they had actually called upon specialists to prepare her for the awards, saying that she needed to know how to act... talk... walk and smile in front of a camera. So tomorrow she would be staying in a room with Inu-Yasha all day, preparing herself for the D.A.H.A awards, and she had a bad feeling about it.
Pulling away her pillow underneath her, she stuffed it down on top of her face blocking out the light so she could fall asleep, which she soon did – after an hour or so.
x.x
The next morning wasn't as pleasant either. Waking up to the slam of a door. Kagome groaned as she sat up in bed; sleep still invading the quarters of her mind. Yawning as she rubbed her eyes, Kagome sleepily looked towards the shut door as she heard yelling coming from the corridor. Sighing as she slowly got out of bed, she pinpointed down the yelling to the usual: Inu-Yasha vs. Sesshomaru.
Shaking her head, she stumbled out of her bed. Making her way drowsily to the bathroom, not even bothering to look at the time. Just as soon as she had reached the bathroom door, her door swung open, the knob banging on the wall as it came in contact with it.
"Darn it wench, because of you, I have to wake up at six thirty on the freaking morning!" Inu-Yasha grumbled and rubbed his eyes to relieve himself of the sleepiness coming back to him. "And I'm not going to wait a minute longer for you to get dressed!"
Letting out a scream as he quickly made his way across the room, grabbing her arm to pull her out the door, she tugged back furiously. "Let me brush my teeth at least!"
"Go brush them downstairs!"
"But I'm still in my pajamas!"
"You can change downstairs as well!"
"But...I have to pee!"
"Do that in the washroom downstairs!"
Closing the conversation at that sentence, he pulled her out of her room despite her yells of protest and dragged her down the corridor. As they reached the staircase, he let out a huff and swept her up in his arms, then leaping from step to step and arriving at the bottom at the time of a mere second.
As he walked over to the dining room door and kicked it open, Sesshomaru sighed as he saw the state in which Kagome had come.
"When I told you to wake her up, I didn't mean for you to drag her out of bed and carry her down here against her will you dumbass." He said and walked over to Inu-Yasha, prying Kagome out of his arms and getting her to stand on her own two feet.
"Feh." Inu-Yasha spat out and walked over to the luxurious red fabricated sofas, flopping down on them miserably.
"Kagome, go hurry up and go get yourself cleaned, and don't worry about changing from your pajamas, you'll be doing enough changing later on in the day anyway." Sesshomaru said, pushing Kagome towards a door nearby which was probably a washroom.
It had taken a while, but after a few good ten minutes of rather impatiently waiting, Kagome had emerged from the washroom, looking fresher than before. "Alright, I'm done, so... Sesshouma... where'd he go?" Looking around furiously, she felt her stomach drop as she noticed he was gone, leaving her alone in the room with the puppy pouted Inu-Yasha.
"He's going to come back when we're done your training." He said, crossing his arms across his chest.
"My training?" She said with confusion, walking to the middle of the dining room, just noticing that all the dining tables and chairs were missing. "Wah?"
"Oh goody, goody good!" A cheerful voice reached her ears from behind her. "So you both are here!"
Turning around to see who was talking, Kagome surprised herself as she saw a cheerful lady walk towards them. Reaching Kagome, she clasped her hands together and giggled, "This is going to be so much fun!"
"Someone fill me in here?" Kagome mused out loud and glanced towards Inu-Yasha for an answer who let out a gruff sigh in return.
"I have to take you to the D.A.H.A awards..." he murmured and then looked away. "So my dad called in a director to tell you what to do and...stuff." Lowering his voice, he trailed off in a number of cusses, confusing Kagome to no end.
"Stuff?" Kagome asked, scrunching her eyebrows in concern but it was all washed away as Karira opened the dining room doors and ran in with an armload of dresses.
"Okay, okay, okay, I got all the dresses!" Running up to the elderly woman, she flopped all the dresses down on the carpet. "It was all I could carry..." she breathed out and then straightened her posture immediately. "Oh my god... this is going to be so much fun!"
Before Kagome could get a word in, the lady clasped her hands together. "Alright, let's get this started." Pushing Kagome back all the way to flop down beside Inu-Yasha, she pulled up a dress. "Hm, so Inu-Yasha, what color suit are you wearing?" She asked, leaning down in front of him so their noses were almost touching.
"Uh... it's black..." He said and the lady pulled back instantly.
"What color tie?" She mused out, wafting her hands through the numerous dresses Karira had dropped down on the carpet.
"Navy blue..." He replied, raising an eyebrow as the lady nodded her head furiously.
"Aha! Well, that means, Kagome... try this dress on,"
Not knowing what to do until a dress came flying her way, Kagome caught the dress in her hands before it hit her face. About to get up to change, she let out a yell as the lady threw three more dresses her way.
"Try those three on as well..."
"Alright," Getting up, she headed towards the washroom once again to change when a question popped in her mind. "Wait, why am I trying on these dresses for?"
Letting out a loud snort, the lady looked up from her search on the ground. "Well, duh, you're trying them on so you know what to wear to the D.A.H.A!"
Kagome blinked. "But the awards aren't till next week,"
"So?" Echoed Karira, who had disappeared for the past few minutes and was now, seen pushing in a railing of clothes. "I picked out my dress a month ago. You always need to know what you're wearing because if you ruin your first dress in any way, you need to have a backup dress."
Trying to process all the information, Kagome decided to leave it perfect and go along with what everyone was saying.
And so, the hour began, dress after dress, heels after heels and necklaces after necklaces. The time seemed to stop to a deadend, as Kagome took in another dress to change one after another, no dresses seeming to be the perfect one.
Two stylists had arrived, bringing in two more railings of clothes, making it even more tiring for Kagome as the lady kept yelling out orders such as 'We'll find a dress for you even if it means spending hours at it!'
It seemed like three whole hours had passed until Kagome finally emerged from the washroom wearing a dress, which astounded everyone.
It was navy blue in color, just like Inu-Yasha's tie yet it was a tad lighter. The fabric lengthened up to her knees where the color changed to a starry night blue. A silver string was tied loosely around her waist, the knot at a diamond on the hip, which led down a stylish slit. The neck of the dress was in a large curve coming down from each shoulder and to top it off, she was wearing a million dollar worth diamond necklace with matching high heels.
"Uh... like it?" She asked, doing a small twirl for the audience.
"Best one so far and best one I think there is!" The lady beamed, "So Inu-Yasha, what do you think of it?" Looking over to Inu-Yasha, she smirked as she saw him fidget in his chair.
"Whatever..." He spat out and looked away before Kagome could glance at him.
"So it's settled, Kagome – you're going to wear that dress to the awards with Inu-Yasha," Karira squealed out and looked at both of them. "Aww... you both would look so adorable."
Shaking her head with annoyance, Kagome smiled and looked at herself in the mirror. "What if I lose the necklace?" She asked nervously, knowing the price of the valuable jewel.
"It's only worth a million, not much." Karira said simply, waving away the thought as if it were nothing.
Trying to regain from the shock of calling a million dollar worth necklace 'not much', Kagome did her best to walk in the high heels, only managing to fall down just as soon as she walked her first step."Oh dear, are you alright?" A head popped over her, staring down intensely.
"I don't have much experience with heels..." Kagome groaned out weakly and got up, rubbing her bum in the process. "Oh shut up Inu-Yasha." She shot out as she noticed the snickering he was doing.
"Not my fault!" He fought back innocently, raising his hand up for defense. "It's just that you're the first girl I've seen who doesn't know how to walk in heels."
"Hey, it's not my problem if I don't like to walk in slanted shoes that hurts my knees!" Sticking her tongue out at Inu-Yasha, Kagome straightened her posture and allowed Karira to help her walk in the heels, also ignoring the mused expression plastered on the lady's face.
Sending a glare towards the lady because she wouldn't stop staring, Kagome narrowed her eyes as the lady continued to watch, bemused.
Then it clicked.
"Oh, I forgot you both were pretending to be a couple... never mind." She said, letting out a hearty laugh and then continued to proceed towards Kagome who had once again been flopped down beside Inu-Yasha. "Alright, let's continue on... first of all, when someone asks for a picture, Inu-Yasha – you must encircle your arm around her waist and when you're walking down the red carpet, stay close!"
"But I don't know how to walk in heels!" Kagome yelled out before the lady had a chance to continue.
"That's why we're going to take away all your sandals and joggers and replace them with heels so you can practice all weak." She smiled warmly at her and then continued, despite Kagome's mortified expression. "And Kagome, try not to be seen flirting with another man, same goes with you, Inu-Yasha." She stopped as he raised an eyebrow. "I mean, don't flirt with another woman Inu-Yasha, because you both are supposed to be dating each other."
Kagome furrowed her eyebrows as she tried to process all the information the woman was trying to force into her. She seemed to go on...and on... and on, only stopping to take a breath here and there.
"Inu-Yasha, when you win an award during the D.A.H.A, before you get up, give Kagome a light kiss on the cheek." She said, sending a smile towards Inu-Yasha.
Kagome took in a nervous breath. Was it just her, or did the whole room just seem to tense after she had said that? Taking a gulp and refusing to look at Inu-Yasha, she leaned back on the sofa and crossed her arms across her chest.
"Why, is there a problem with that?" The lady asked, peering at both of their faces for an expression as neither one replied. "Fine... why don't we practice kissing right now then eh?"
"What?!" Kagome yelled out, almost choking on her own voice. Inu-Yasha seemed to be affected by the declarative demand as well as both of his ears swiveled towards the woman at that comment.
"Well, if you both are going to pretend to be dating, there has to be some kissing... now come on... both of you get up, chop, chop!" She waved her hands in front of them, forcing them to get up. As neither of them made any intention of getting up, she reached forward and pulled them up, surprising both of them by her strength.
Forcing both of them to face each other, she stepped forward. "Alright, now Inu-Yasha, put your arms around her waist."
Inu-Yasha hesitated, and was about to let out a loud cuss and just step back when the elderly lady grabbed his arms and encircled them around Kagome's waist who stiffened at the intimacy.
Inu-Yasha had to hold in a breath as he settled his hands on her waist, making sure his sharp claws didn't rip the fabric in any way as he tried to clear his head off of all thoughts except one: Just get this over with.
Looking at them both, the woman sighed. "Aw, come on you two, if neither one has any passion for each other, then a kiss is just a kiss, nothing more, so get it over with!"
Kagome gulped and looked up at Inu-Yasha, raising her hands to settle them on his shoulders.
Taking in a deep yet silent breath before the kiss, Inu-Yasha lowered his lips to meet hers, the contact bringing in too many memories for both their minds all at once.
Pulling back immediately after exactly three seconds of the kiss, Inu-Yasha drove back his hands into his pockets and turned away to hide the pink tint on his cheeks. "Uh, I'm going to go eat... I'll be back in a few minutes." He said and ran out of the dining room just as soon as he had finished talking.
Kagome let out a nervous breath and then walked towards the washroom. "I'll go get changed back into my own... uh... pajamas." Shutting the bathroom door behind her, Kagome took in a deep breath and tried to calm down her guts.
Taking off her clothes and pulling back on her bedtime shirt, she bit her bottom lip. "That reaction was definitely not needed." She murmured out, remembering the jitters that had coursed throughout her body at the kiss as she pulled back on her bedtime pants.
Back outside in the dining room, the woman looked back at Karira. "Let me guess, they both have a memorable past together?"
"Oh, you have no idea..." Karira scoffed as she shook her head, not noticing the tape recorder recording everything from the bottom of the sofa.
x.x
See! I told you I wasn't lying when I said I'll update fast! Teehee!
Right, so this chapter was cut in half, mostly because if I didn't cut it in half, it would be...way... too...freaking... long!
So review and tell me what you thought about it and hmm, let's see, what can you expect in the next chapter? – Well, let me tell you at least this much – let the drama begin!
Just to everyone who hasn't figured it out yet, I'm a big... fan of – DRAMA!
ALSO – thanks to 'Shadow Assassin' for editing this chapter!