Here's the next chapter. Sorry for the long wait.
"Tsukasa, have you got the song down yet?" Akira asked Tsukasa as Soujiro was hysterically laughing.
Tsukasa was so irritated. He remembered life before he met Tsukushi. He could do whatever he wanted. He closed his eyes. Life with Tsukushi was what he wanted and needed. Without her, he wouldn't feel loved. Without her, he would be a monster. Although Tsukushi limited him on what he could and could not do, he appreciated her. He loved her. She was an angel in disguise. Since this song was for Tsukushi, he was going to ignore Soujiro laughing at him.
"I've been practicing," Tsukasa finally said.
"You know, I never ever heard you sing, aside from the shower," Soujiro said as he put a piece of chocolate in his mouth.
"Soujiro, you're so irritating!" Tsukasa scolded him.
"Hey, this is for Tsukushi, remember? You need to put your whole heart in this," Akira reminded him.
"He hasn't talked to me in a week!" Tsukushi sobbed to Yuki in her bedroom.
"He has to have an explanation," Yuki thought aloud.
It was true. They didn't talk or see each other in seven days. Akiko already left the day after the misunderstanding took place. Tsukushi was so furious that she didn't want to see Tsukasa's face, but she ended up missing him dearly. She now thought that he thought that she was going overboard with the misunderstanding and that he didn't want to see her. Many thoughts were running through her head.
"What if he found someone else? What if he doesn't love me anymore? What if he cancels our wedding?" Tsukushi sobbed. She looked like she lost it.
Yuki slapped her on her face. Tsukushi was utterly surprised. During their long, continuous friendship, she never hit her, not even a pinch. Yuki then looked like she regretted doing that.
"Look, you needed that. You were losing it," Yuki explained.
"But it hurt!" Tsukushi said wiping her tears away.
"It worked though. You're finally back to your regular self," Yuki smiled, "Shigeru and Sakurako are on their way here."
"Good, I need more people to talk to," Tsukushi said.
Within five minutes, Shigeru and Sakurako were there. Ever since Tsukushi had gotten engaged, the four of them seemed to have grown a connection. They were best friends. No matter what they went through in the past, they became best friends. At first, Tsukushi thought it was kind of weird since Sakurako and Shigeru used to like Tsukasa, but it didn't matter anymore. It was obvious that Sakurako and Shigeru didn't like him anymore. You had to be stupid to not see that Shigeru liked Rui and that Sakurako liked Akira.
"Tsukushi, stop crying!" Sakurako ordered her.
"I can't! I called him like a million times, but he never answers! Maybe he doesn't want to be with me anymore," Tsukushi said.
Her eyes were swollen. Good thing Mama, Papa, and Susumu were at Osaka visiting the village there. She wouldn't stand it if they saw her like this.
"I never saw you like this! What happened to the weed?" Shigeru added in.
Tsukushi listened to her words carefully. What did happen to her? She would have never cried over a guy! She was getting soft, and she knew it. She hated it. She hated that she was feeling helpless. How could a man, like Tsukasa, make her feel like this? When she was younger, she never had cried. She was bullied and beaten many times, but she never cried. Tsukushi stood up and wiped all the tears away from her face. She walked to the bathroom and washed her face, but her eyes were still inevitably swollen.
"You guys are right. I'm still a weed. I don't feel helpless over a stupid guy. If he doesn't answer my calls, it's his fault. If he doesn't want to marry me anymore, then it's his loss," Tsukushi said fighting the tears away.
The thought of Tsukasa cancelling the wedding made her want to cry. She loved the man, for goodness sake. Tsukushi then heard a violin being played. For some reason, that creeped her out. No one was home except the four of them and her family didn't own a violin.
"What's that sound?" Tsukushi was frightened.
"I don't know," Shigeru said as she looked around the room.
"Maybe it's a ghost!" Sakurako screamed.
After what Sakurako said, the girls were frightened. Yuki walked out to the balcony without saying a word to the girls. The night's breeze was slowly running past her hair. The breeze was blowing on the curtains, making it look flowy.
"What is she doing?" Tsukushi whispered to Shigeru.
"I don't know," Shigeru replied.
"Maybe she's possessed," Sakurako suggested.
Shigeru lightly smacked her in the head. She made an absurd assumption.
"It's them," Yuki finally said softly from the balcony as she pointed.
"IT'S A GHOST! AHH!" Shigeru screamed as she ran to Tsukushi's bed and went under the covers.
"It's not a ghost, stupid! It's the F4!" Yuki called out to them.
The F4 looked at Yuki. They wondered where Tsukushi, Shigeru, and Sakurako were. They also were wondering why they just heard Shigeru scream.
"What's up with Shigeru?" Rui asked as he continued to play the violin.
"OMG, are you concerned?" Soujiro joked as he put his hand over his mouth.
"It looks like lover boy is concerned!" Akira laughed.
"Shut up!" Tsukasa ordered.
With that command, they kept their mouths shut. Rui smiled.
Within a few seconds, all the girls were in the balcony. Tsukushi was surprised to see Tsukasa and the rest there. She was more surprised that they were going to sing, or do some sort of musical performance.
Akira then started playing the keyboard piano while Rui was playing his violin. Within a few seconds, Soujiro entered the melody with his guitar. Tsukushi had a shocked expression on her face. She thought it was so sweet.
(A/N: The song that Tsukasa is going to sing to Tsukushi is All My Life by KC and Jojo. Credit goes to them, not me. I don't own the song. Period.)
"I will never find another lover, sweeter than you, sweeter than you," Tsukasa finally sang.
Tsukushi was surprised. He sang very well. She was kind of pissed off that he didn't sing to her earlier, but she would rather have this late than never.
"And I will never find another lover, more precious than you, precious than you," he continued.
It was true. Tsukasa could never find anyone to replace Tsukushi. She was one of a kind. She was different from all the other girls. She shaped him to become the man he is today. Without her, he didn't know what he would do. He would probably be a bitter man.
"All my life, I prayed for someone like you and I thank God that I, that I finally found you. All my life, I prayed for someone like you and I hope that you feel the same way, too. Yes, I pray that you do love me too," he sang so gently.
Tsukasa remembered that when he was young, he wanted to feel loved. He would even pray at night hoping that his life wouldn't be the way his mother wanted it to be. He prayed that he wouldn't be in an arranged marriage. He prayed that he would find that special girl for him. He prayed to have a happy family. Now that his prayers were answered, he was thankful.
"Said, I promise to never to fall in love with a stranger, you're all I'm thinking of. I praise the lord above for sending me your love. I cherish every hug. I really love you," he sang melodically.
Tsukasa would never cheat on her. That was the last thing he would ever do to her. She was just too loveable to be replaced. He wouldn't even think about cancelling their wedding. He would rather die than give her up. He would rather die than replace her. He would rather die than cheat on her.
Right there and then, Akira stopped playing the piano. The battery seemed to have run out. Without the piano, it sounded weird causing the rest of them to stop doing what they were doing.
"Damn it, Soujiro!" Tsukasa scolded, "Did you charge it?!"
"Only for like ten minutes," Soujiro confessed.
"You're so stupid!" Tsukasa shouted at him.
"I'm sorry!" Soujiro cried.
Tsukushi and the girls quickly ran downstairs.
"You ruined the whole thing! Look, my dear Makino ran away! She's probably pissed off at me even more!" Tsukasa cried when he saw that Tsukushi was no longer in the balcony.
"Tsukasa," Tsukushi said when she reached him in her front yard.
Tsukasa's face froze. He loved it when she called him by his first name. She usually called him Domyouji. Sometimes, Tsukasa would even forget that Tsukasa was his first name because he got used to Domyouji so much. Another reason why he loved it when she called him by his first name was that it meant that she was in a good mood. She wasn't mad at him and she'd act very sweet.
Knowing that they needed their privacy, Rui, Soujiro, Akira, Shigeru, Yuki, and Sakurako left to go inside in the living room. Tsukushi smiled at him when they finally exited the front yard. It was already nine o'clock at night. The stars were shining bright. They were even brighter than usual.
"Why are the stars so bright?" Tsukushi asked curiously.
"Oh, that's because I shut down three fourths of Tokyo's electricity," Tsukasa explained.
"What?! What if the citizens need it? What if they had an emergency?" Tsukushi said panicking.
"Don't worry. I paid each family one thousand dollars each just for this hour," Tsukasa said.
"Hm," Tsukushi didn't know what to say.
"You worry about other people too much," Tsukasa made a conclusion.
"And so?" Tsukushi asked threateningly.
"Nothing," Tsukasa said silently.
The moment of silence was so weird. When they were together, they usually talked or argued at stupid things. The silence was just foreign to them. They always had something to talk about.
"You guys can be in a boy band," Tsukushi laughed, finally breaking the silence.
"What?" Tsukasa was confused.
"You sang very well. I can't believe you didn't tell me you could sing. We've been together since high school," Tsukushi reminded him.
"Well, you never asked," he said smiling.
Tsukasa grabbed her hand and led to the hammock that was hung by two grand oak trees. They both laid down on it. Tsukushi rested her head on his broad shoulders. They looked out into the stars.
"You know, when I started liking you, I would look out into that star frequently," he whispered in her ear as he pointed at a little star.
"And why is that?" she asked.
"The star resembles you a lot. I could have been looking at any star in the sky, but I chose that one because that was the different one," he said.
Tsukushi just stared at that star. It wasn't very bright.
"It's like the sky is Eitoku. The stars are the girls in Eitoku. That star was so close to me. Sometimes I could feel like I could just reach it, but at the same time, it was yet so far. From the hundreds of stars in the sky, I picked that star because that star was the one that resembled most to you," he said.
"What? I resemble to a star that doesn't shine that brightly?" she said shockingly.
"There's a reason for that. You were the least wealthy, but you managed to get my attention. Even though people consider you to be a weed, you still managed to be with me."
"I still don't get you."
"Okay, take this example. Everyone in Eitoku was flamboyant, just like these bright stars, but you came to school ordinarily, like that star. You still managed to shine in the sky," he explained.
"Hmm, nice metaphor," Tsukushi smiled at him.
"Does this mean that we're not fighting anymore?" Tsukasa said.
"After this," Tsukushi gently whispered.
Tsukasa closed his eyes. He expected a kiss from his honey. After all, they haven't even seen each other for a while. She was probably dying to get her hand all over him.
To his surprise, he received a hard punch instead.
"What was that for?!" he said as he rubbed his cheek.
"That was for not calling me or answering my calls for a week!" Tsukushi yelled.
Well, that's the end of the chapter. I hope you liked it, and you should listen to the song "All My Life". It's a really good song.
