Chapter 12
Shizuru was just inside her bedroom all day. She was crying and sometimes pacing inside her room.
"That Natsuki, she only wants my body and the child that might come. Now that she gets what she want from me, and I might get pregnant anytime soon, I'm just like a rag thrown here at her room!" she thought.
"And maybe, her plan with that Momoko when she gets her child from me, they will get married. Huh! Two birds in one stone. She will get her inheritance and have a child, her relationship with Momoko will also be fine after the annulment." She added.
Shizuru became really mad with those thoughts.
"Shizuru…" Natsuki called from outside the room.
"Ha?!" she was surprise when she heard Natsuki's voice. Luckily she locked the door, Natsuki can't enter immediately.
"Why!?" she ask angrily while fixing herself.
"Open this, I have something for you."
"Wait!" she ran to the bathroom to splash her face with water. Natsuki didn't have to find out that she's crying.
"Why does it take you a long time to open this?" Natsuki ask with a smile when the door opens.
"I fell asleep" she answered nonchalantly and go back to her bed to lie down.
Natsuki frown because of Shizuru's actions, but she choose to ignore it. She thought that maybe her wife was still sleepy.
"Here, I bought fruits for you." She said in a cheerful way while putting the fruits at the bedside table.
"C'mon, let's eat and ---"
"I don't want to eat!" Shizuru said angrily while facing away from Natsuki.
Natsuki automatically looks at her.
"Honey, are you sick?" she ask while holding her wifes' arm.
"No!" she answered angrily, again.
"Hey, what's wrong?" it was so obvious that Natsuki is trying to control her temper.
"What did I do? Did I do something ---"
"Please, Natsuki? Leave me alone!" Shizuru shouted and face Natsuki. "I'm still sleepy? I don't want anyone here in my room!"
Natsuki's eyes turn into slits, until she rise from her sit.
"Alright, if that's what you want, but I'll wait for you at the dining table at exactly 7:00pm. I want us to eat together." After saying this she got out of the room and slams the door shut.
Shizuru was a bit shock because of the impack of the slammed door but choose to ignore it. Right now, she's feeling really hurt. Her heart is aching.
"This is really painful. I don't have rights to show her that I'm hurt." She cries because of that thought.
There was a hard knocking at Shizuru's door that awaken her.
"Why?" she ask angrily knowing exactly who's the one knocking.
"Open this!" Natsuki shouted back.
"I don't want to eat!" she answered back.
"Damn!" Natsuki kick the door real hard for it to open.
"What exactly are you trying to do, huh? When I came here a few hours ago, you're angry, until now you're still angry? I'm waiting for you at the dining table for ages, but you're not going down!" Natsuki was very angry while coming close to her.
Shizuru just ignore this, and just change her position while looking so realx.
"I told you, I will not eat because I'm too sleepy." She pull the blanket until it reaches her chest area.
"Keita said, you didn't eat your lunch, you didn't even have snack, what do you really want?" Natsuki ask, really frustrated.
"None, I was just sleepy." Then Shizuru close her eyes to sleep again.
"Damn!" Natsuki kick the bed.
Shizuru ignore this. "Hmmph! I don't care if you're annoyed. I was just annoyed as you are when I thought of the things you do with that Momoko!"
"What? Are you not standing there to eat?"
"No"
"C'mon!" Natsuki kneel at the bed and hold Shizuru's shoulders to get her to stand by force.
"What are you doing?" she was so pissed and push Natsuki.
"Don't you understand? I don't want to eat! Don't you respect the rights of the others?"
"Why does our conversation go to rights? What's the connection of asking you to eat to your rights?" Natsuki ask very amused.
"You don't know, huh, you don't know?" Shizuru stands from the bed by her will.
"You don't know that you're harassing me because you're forcing me to eat, that's why it involves my rights!" Shizuru was so angry while pointing Natsuki on the face.
"Oh, God! You're really impossible! So I'm the bad one, when all I'm caring is for you to eat?" Natsuki didn't know if she will laugh or be annoyed because of her wife's actions.
"I don't want to eat, period! And because our marriage is just an agreement because of money, it doesn't mean that I will follow all of your orders!"
"Dammit!" Natsuki looses her temper.
"And why are you involving that thing? I thought ---"
"You thought what, huh? That because I will have money when we separate I will become your slave in this hacienda?" Because Shizuru's mind and heart was poisoned by jealousy she didn't even care what she's saying and the words she's using.
"No, way, Ms. Kuga! I will make sure that if this agreement ends, I can face you proudly because you didn't get me to obey all your wants."
"Bullshit" she didn't know that it causes Natsuki to be angry even more.
"Now, all was clear to me, why you're being so cooperative when we're having an intimate night. You want to happen what's listed on the agreement, right? You want to get your money!" Shizuru wanted to protest because it's not true, that she doesn't even care for the money, but she chooses to remain silent.
"So, now that it's quite clear to you, are you going to leave me alone here because I don't want to eat?"
Natsuki look at her for a few seconds. Afterawhile she sighs.
"Alright, if that's what you want" after saying this Natsuki got outside of the room with a sad look on her face.
"You already claim me, that's enough. Maybe, I will get pregnant. Anyway, I need to end this. I don't want to get used to the feeling of you being near, I don't want to get used with your hugs and kisses." She thought, crying and her heart aching.
After that incident Natsuki didn't enter their room that night, so she sleep alone. The next day,
"Good morning Shizuru-sama" greeted Keita.
"Good morning" she greeted back tiredly
"What do you want to eat for breakfast?"
"I don't want to eat. Tea will be fine." She sits at the chair.
"Natsuki-sama didn't wait for you to wake up because your sleeping soundly in your room, she doen't want to disturb you."
Shizuru suddenly straightened her back when she heard the name of her wife.
"Why, where is she?" she asked casually.
"She go to Tokyo City really early."
"Ha? Why?"
"Well, I don't really know Shizuru-sama. But I heard she's going to take care something there."
Shizuru's heart started to beat fast.
"Didn't she said anything before she left?"
"She just left a letter for you."
"I-Is that all?"
"Hai."
She already loose her appetite even drinking her tea. She go upstairs againg to her bedroom and started crying. She wants to blame herself. Maybe Natsuki was really pissed because of the things she said last night, that's why she left her.
According to the letter that Natsuki left for her, she will be back soon. They will talk about something really important.
"And what is that really important thing we'll talk about?" she was so annoyed. She heard soft knocks coming from her door.
"Who's that?"
"It's me, Momoko!" She suddenly felt anger rising in her chest.
"What does this girl want from me?"
"Why?" she asked angrily when she opened the door.
"Hey" Momoko smile, an irritating smile to Shizuru's eyes.
"Are you angry? The last time we saw each other you're really happy because you met the 'childhood friend' of your wife, right?"
Shizuru quickly calmed herself. She didn't have to show her true feelings to anyone especially to this annoying woman.
"I'm sorry, I just woke up. Anyway, do you need something from me?" she asked casually.
"Ah, yes" even though she didn't invite Momoko to enter her room, the latter invited her self.
"I found out that Natsuki left for Tokyo?" while talking Momoko was also scanning the room.
"She will do something important for the company."
Shizuru was gritting her teeth because Momoko was feeling at home in her room.
"Hmp! That Natsuki is so annoying. I already told her yesterday that I will join her."
"Y-you're going to Tokyo too?" she can't stop herself from asking.
"Ah, Yes!" she faced Shizuru.
"Natsuki ask for my help to convince her father to convince him to build a mall at the town. You know, she wants to settle here. Maybe she's being pressured when she's at the city."
Shizuru wants to feel numb at the moment. Knowing that Natsuki's 'childhood friend' knows her plans, while she, she doesn't know anything. But she scolds herself from thingking those things.
"And why would I expect anything from her? Our marriage is just for convenience, I need to get used to the fact that I will be only watching every moves of the people around me."
"Well anyway, I need to go now." Momoko interrupted her.
"By the way, Natsuki's favorite bedsheet was light blue one. It feels so relaxing." After saying this she proceeds to the door.
"Oh, I forgot to mention, when Natsuki take a bath at morning she wants it cold while at night a lukewarm one."
Shizuru was so pissed, "Why does she need to say all of those things?"
"Ah, I'm sorry if I get carried away. I used to be here when she's around, serving her. We're really close. But since she already has a wife, all I can do is just to remind you those things…for the meantime."
That's it, Shizuru can't control herself anymore. She speak back.
"Well, Momoko-san, thanks for reminding me those things. I already knew those. She loves the light blue bedsheet, but it got stained when we 'did' something this past few days." Momoko's eyebrow twitch because of what she heard.
"And her morning and night shower? I already knew those also, since we're taking a bath at the same time."(A/N: Go Shizuru!!!!) Shizuru has a wide grin on her face. She's really happy because she saw the anger in Momoko's eyes.
Momoko didn't answer back, instead she stump her way out of the room.
It's been three days since Natsuki left, Shizuru was also in her room for that long, although she goes downstairs to eat. On the fourth day, she decide to walk around the hacienda. Until she found a small house.
"Good afternoon, Shizuru-sama."
She was so shock when a middle aged woman greet her.
"Y-you know me?"
"Ah, yes." The woman smile. "Last time when Natsuki-sama toured you around, I saw you, they said you're her wife. You only got married?"
Shizuru smiled at the woman.
"Yes, not more than a week."
"We're happy that you're the one who Natsuki-sama got married to and not that Momoko."
Shizuru got nervous when she heard the name of the woman that wanted to be in Natsuki's heart.
"I-Is it true that they had a relationship before?" she can't stop herself from asking.
"Well, I don't really know. They're so close to each other. Momoko was so vocal in her feelings with Natsuki-sama, while your wife just shrug and smile when they got tease at some occasions. Oh, I said too much." The woman covered her mouth.
"I-I'm so sorry."
"It's okay, thanks for the information. By the way, where is Momoko's house?" she casually asked.
"Ah, that's their house." The woman pointed at the house nearby.
"Aside from Natsuki-sama's house, their house is the second beautiful here. But fro now, I think no one is there. They said Momoko was in Tokyo City."
She was so shock of what she heard. She politely said goodbye to the woman and made her way back to home.
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That ends Chapter 12!
How long will Shizuru wait for Natsuki. What does Natsuki want to talk about?
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