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Chapter 20

When I opened the door, I saw Rui sitting up in bed and joking around Tsukasa. Well, he seems to be fine…but does he remember me? I thought to myself. I cautiously walked up to him, smiled, and greeted him. "H-hey Rui."

He seemed confused for a second and said, "Who are you?" He looked at Tsukasa and asked him, "Who is she Tsukasa?"

My smiled faltered. Tsukasa looked at me with an apologetic smiled and said to Rui, "That's Ellen, Rui. She's your girlfriend, remember?"

He raised an eyebrow at me and said, "That's not possible, I don't have a girlfriend."

I swallowed, and tried to fight my tears back. Well, at least he's not dead right? Sojiro came up to him and put a hand his shoulder. "She's our childhood friend Rui. We were all close to each other."

I stood there as he kept looking at me. I slowly walked backwards to the door as I said, "Um I think I'll be going right now."

Before I turned around to open the door, Rui called out, "Watch out Ellen!"

I turned to look at Rui, confused because I thought he didn't remember who I was, and turned around to collide with the door. "Ow!" I rubbed my forehead and looked to see who it was.

It was Jenna, "Oh my gosh Ellen, I am so sorry! I didn't see you there!"

I rubbed my forehead, walked up to Rui's bed, and crossed my arms and looked at him. He looked at me and smiled. "What?"

I punched him in the arm. "Ow what was that for Ellen!"

"For scaring me you, you jerk!"

He smiled at me and said with a pouty face, "I'm sorry Ellen."

I glared at him and turned around to face the wall. He called my name. "Ellen…"

I heard him get out of his bed and turned around. "Wait, Rui. Don't get out of bed." He was halfway off the bed and when he stopped to look at me. Forgetting everybody around us, I walked up to him and kissed him on the lips. It felt like it had been a long time since we have kissed like this. He opened his mouth to let my tongue in. His mouth was warm and welcoming. After awhile, we broke apart and looked each other in the eyes.

I heard Tsukasa cleared his throat and turned to look at him. "Um well than…"

I raised an eyebrow at him and said, "Yes Tsukasa?"

"We should get going now. Rui needs to rest."

"Okay."

Sojiro, Akira, Makino, Tsukasa, and Jenna left the room in a single file. I was the last one to go when Rui grabbed my wrist and spun me around. He caught me by surprise when he kissed me on the lips. After we broke apart, he said, "I love you Ellen."

I looked at him, and gave him a quick peck on the cheek. "I love you too Rui. Get better soon."

He smiled at me and said, "I will. You get better soon too, okay?" I raised an eyebrow at him. "Tsukasa told me you keep having headaches."

"Oh right. I'm fine Rui." He gave me a quizzical look. "What? I really am fine though."

He pulled me towards him and whispered in my ear, "Don't lie to yourself Ellen. I don't want to lose you."

I buried my head into his neck and said, "I almost lost you Rui, so you need not to worry about me so much."

I pulled away from him and walked towards the door.

A few days later…

A few days later, Rui was able to check out of the hospital because his results turned out positive. I went to pick up Rui at the hospital. When we arrived at his house, we saw Aya standing there with a bouquet of roses in her hand.

We stopped a few feet away from her; Rui held me close to his side and said, "Hi Aya."

Aya had a monotonous look on her face as she said, "Hey Rui."

"What are you doing here?"

I could tell she was uncomfortable being here. "Um I came to apologize and to give you these roses."

Rui looked away from her and said, "You don't need to apologize. What's done is done. Please leave."

Aya was about to walk up to him when I said, "Don't go near him. You've done enough harm to both of us. We don't want to hear what you have to say. No words can forget about the actions you have done in the past."

Aya said, "I know that okay? I'm just here to tell you that you won't see me anymore because I'll be in America. I'll be out of your sight, and…" She looked at me. "Good luck at the beauty pageant Ellen."

I pressed my lips together and said, "I'm not joining the beauty pageant anymore."

Aya creased her eyebrows and said, "What? Why not?"

I breathed through my nose and said, "Because there might be other girls like you. Please go away now."

Aya dropped the roses to the ground and said, "Fine, do whatever you guys want than. Goodbye."

I held onto Rui's waist tightly until she walked past me. I could smell her perfume, and my nose wrinkled around the smell.

After Aya left, I helped Rui to his room. As Rui went to go take a shower, I unpacked his belongings from his suitcase for him. I had to pause a couple of times because I felt dizzy. I heard the door open and spun around. Bad idea Ellen. Rui was in the process of wrapping himself around the waist. He caught me looking at him and smiled at me. I turned the other way and continued separating the dirty clothes from the clean clothes and pretended I didn't see anything.

I felt Rui's arms wrapping around me as he rested his head on top of mine. "Hey there Ellen."

I paused what I was doing and I tried to say as calm as possible, "Hey Rui."

He laughed and said, "I saw you looking at me Ellen."

I turned around and said, "I swear I didn't see anything Rui!"

He laughed harder this time. "It's fine if you saw it Ellen. I don't mind if it's you." I blushed and I had to turn away. He gently touched my chin with his hand and turned my face towards him. He put his lips on mine and I welcome him in…The next thing you know it, we were on his bed making out.

My phone rang and I let out a frustrated sigh. He laughed at me and let me go so I can answer my phone. "Hello?"

It was Sojiro. "Hey Ellen. We're having a welcome back party for Rui, so bring him over Tsukasa's house at nine o'clock at night tomorrow okay?"

As I got up from the bed and walked over to the window seat to sit down, Rui followed me. "Tomorrow? Can't you guys do it the next day or something?"

"Hmm…Let me ask Tsukasa."

I heard him call Tsukasa's name. "Hey Tsukasa!"

Tsukasa shouted in the back, "What Sojiro! I'm in the middle of something right now!"

Sojiro sighed and said, "Hold on Ellen."

Not meaning to sound annoyed, I said, "Hurry up Sojiro, we're doing…something right now."

"Whoa. Are you guys at it already?" He shouted to someone, must be the boys. "Hey guys, their finally at it!"

I heard cheers in the background, and I rolled my eyes. "Sojiro, don't be stupid. Hurry."

He laughed and said, "Alright, alright." I had to wait for a couple of minutes. "Okay, bring him the day after tomorrow than."

"Okay, bye."

"Wait, Ellen."

I raised an eyebrow and said, "Yeah Sojiro?"

"Remember to be safe."

"Oh my gosh Sojiro! I'm going to kick your butt tomorrow if I see you!"

He laughed and then hung up.

Rui was leaning against the wall, still half naked with the towel around him, and raised an eyebrow at me. "What was that about?"

I shook my head and said, "It was Sojiro being stupid and thinking that we are doing it right now. I wonder what is wrong with that boy's head." I let out a sigh.

Rui laughed and said, "Shall we continue what we were doing before?"

He was about to kiss me but I put a hand on his chest to stop him. "No Rui, you need to rest."

"How can I rest when you're here?"

My mouth hung open and I said, "What is that supposed to mean!"

He laughed again and said, "Nothing dear."

I crossed my arms and said, "Fine. Hmph."

He smiled at me and yawned. "I guess I'll rest right now than."

It's my turn to laugh at him now. "I told you so."

He put an arm around my shoulder and said, "Oh Ellen." He gave me a peck on the cheek. "Are you going to stay?"

I shook my head. "No, I have to run some errands and help Sojiro with some…stuff."

He seemed confused for a second and said, "Okay." He grabbed a pair of pants and shirt and went to the bathroom and change.

As he closed the door to the bathroom, I shouted at him, "Yeah, now you go put on some clothes! You could have done that before!"

I heard him chuckle as he shut the door behind him. I finished separating the clothes and called the butler in to wash his clothes for him. I went down to the kitchen and grabbed a cup of water for Rui so he could drink his medicine. When I went upstairs, I saw Rui fast asleep on his bed. I set his medicine and the cup down on his bedside table quietly and went over to pull the blanket on top of him. When I finished with that, I went towards the door to leave…