The marathon continues. Schools coming and we're all going to be busy so I just want to update everything this weekend at least once. Thank you for last week's feedback. We made it up to 25 chapters!

"I should have just killed her the moment I got rid of that baby."

Takumi's world stops when he hears this about his baby. It feels like his heart stops beating and he could faint any moment. His mother doesn't seem to notice him. He turns around quietly and holds onto a wall so he doesn't fall.

How could she? How could his mother to his own flesh and blood that was inside Misaki? He trusted her the most with Misaki.

Takumi slowly walks away from his mother who rants on without knowing he's there. He can hear the plates being broken but it all fades into the background. Turns out the one person he thought he could trust was the one who betrayed him.

He didn't truly know his own mother.

After hearing his mother's words Takumi gets into his car leaving his cellphone once again. He just wants to drive away from that house. From his mother. From the truth that she destroyed what would have been the most happiest thing in his life. How could she kill Misaki's baby? That baby had her blood in it too. The question remains how she did it?

Misaki must already know what his mother did seeing as they don't get along. His mother purposely tried to run Misaki off the road and Misaki didn't say anything because that's his mother.

How could Misaki have told him about his mother? He loved his mother the most in all his family. But now that love for her is wavering. There is no excuse on earth for what his mother did. No apology good enough to be accepted in return for his child's death. Nothing could solve the pain he feels right now. If he doesn't focus on the road right now it feels like he can get into an accident.

Takumi is suppose to visit Misaki soon but how can he look her in the eye now he knows the truth? He has hurt her in so many ways he's starting to wonder if they should stay together. Who's to say he won't hurt her in the future again? He thought everything in the past was over but it's not. Takumi has so many things to protect Misaki from but it seems no matter what he does he's failing. He smacks the steering wheel with his hand.

He just wants to be with her. To hold her and have her by his side. To have a family with her and marry her. Why can't he have that? No one seemed to want that for him, not even his own mother.

Just thinking back to his mother's words makes his heart aches again. He can't go back to Misaki right now. He just can't. Takumi needs some time to think things through. To decide what's best for him and for Misaki. His family is a huge problem and he needs to decide on how he'll fix that but right now he just wants to be alone. If things don't go right he'll probably break off their relationship again so she can be happy.

-Takumi's apartment-

Misaki arrives at Takumi apartment right after she left her mother with Ichigo at home. Apparently, the two of them wanted to do so "bonding" so the both of them had no problem with her leaving. She worries for what the both of them will do tonight. Ichigo and her mother's personalities are some what carefree so she hopes they won't over do anything as her mother is now finally out the hospital.

Misaki opens Takumi's apartment door with the spare key he gave to her. Speaking of her pervert he should arrive soon. It's best to take a quick shower and change her clothes before he arrives. While Misaki is in the shower she is expecting Takumi to arrive and maybe find her in there but he doesn't show up. She turns off the water and wraps a towel around her body. She exits the bathroom while drying her hair and searches the apartment to find Takumi but he's not there. Strange. Where could he be? He wouldn't be late for something like this. He wouldn't run into traffic at this time of the night either so where is he?

Did something happen with his mother? Misaki wants to call but she's not sure if that's a good idea. What if she interrupts something between him and his mother? Still she can't help but worry for him. She grabs her cellphone and calls Takumi. On the third ring someone picks up.

"Takumi! Whe-"

Someone rudely interrupts Misaki.

"What do you want?" Asks none other than Patricia Walker.

Misaki frowns slightly with confusion written all over her face. Why does his mother have his phone? What is wrong with him?

"Where is Takumi?" Misaki questions not even caring she's talking to Patricia.

"I don't know. Maybe he decided he doesn't want to be aro-"

Misaki hangs up the phone immediately. She doesn't need to hear more of Patricia bashing her. She just wants to know where Takumi is but apparently he's not with his mother anymore and she'll not know where he is since his mother has his phone.

Where could Takumi be? Is he on his way here but just forgot his phone with his mother?

Misaki changes her clothes and sits on the couch waiting for Takumi to show up. Time goes by and a tired Misaki falls asleep waiting waiting for Takumi who doesn't show up.

-Walker mansion-

Patricia is furious Misaki had the nerve the cut the phone in her ear. How dare she do that? Why did Takumi leave his phone there anyway? Patricia looks at his screen picture and notice his regular wallpaper changed to a photo of Misaki. He didn't even have a picture of his own mother up but yet Misaki is there?

Is her son blind? Did she not raise him good enough? She didn't want him to turn out like her and fall for a commoner. It causes trouble. She worked so hard for her family to acknowledge Takumi and now it's all going down the drain. People will say like mother like son when in truth she wants him to be better than she was.

Takumi is her son, she loves him and wants his happiness but Patricia will never let him be with a commoner. The gossip, the shame she went though. She doesn't want that for him and she'll open his eyes to something better.

Marrying him to Aiko was a failure but she had something else in mind. That girl Aiko introduce her to seems promising. Of course she won't let Takumi marry Aiko's friend but if she can break Misaki and Takumi apart then it's worth a shot.

In the end, Takumi will realise what a great mother he has and everything she does is for the good of his future.

-The next day-

Takumi wakes up to the bright morning rays at a hotel he decided to stay the night. He knows Misaki will be mad he blew her off but he needed some time to think. Whether he wants to be with her or not is something serious he needs to think about alone.

It's obvious he doesn't want to leave her but if he keeps hurting her over and over what more can he do? Actions speak louder than words and right now his actions aren't helping her. If only he could've seen from the start how his mother really was this could've been avoided. But how could he? How could you see that your loving mother was someone who decided to take away your happiness?

She is always smiling and laughing and cheering him on in no matter what he does. Other than Misaki she wants the best for him. How could he have suspect his mother of doing something so horrible? That's the last person he would've suspect.

It feels like their making him choose between Misaki and his mother. He wants the both of them but his mother hurt him in a way he can never forgive her. He never wants to let go of Misaki again but every member of his family hurt her including him.

To love or leave her is his only two choices but his mind is leaning on the side to leave her. Takumi grips the sheets in anger thinking about the past. Everything went wrong back then. He lost her back then. Takumi finally comes to a conclusion and decides it's time to go see Misaki.

Hopefully she'll understand what he's about to do.

-Gold partners-

Although Takumi didn't show up last night or this morning Misaki still came to work as she usually would but Takumi still invades her mind. She wonders if she made the wrong decision coming to work instead of trying to get into contact with him.

When she woke up this morning on his couch in an uncomfortable position, she felt nothing but anger thinking he had been avoiding her. He was with his mother beforehand so maybe Patricia lied and convinced Takumi to not be with her.

Misaki shakes her head. Patricia would have to give him a solid reason as to why he should break up with her. But why didn't he show up. Something is wrong but Misaki just doesn't know what. Maybe for some other reason Takumi wants to break up with her or maybe he's in an accident?

Why can't she get him out her head. Maybe something important for work stopped him but he should have the decency to call her and explain the situation.

Her worrying is slowly turning into anger and the more she thinks about him the more she wants to beat the crap out of him. She won't be able to get any work done so Misaki takes it upon herself to leave work and visit his apartment. If he's there he better have a reasonable explanation or else.

-Takumi apartment-

Misaki arrives at Takumi's apartment again in her work clothes she bought over to change into after she spent the night. The one difference she notices about his apartment is the jacket and shoes which were not there before and the sound of the shower running. He didn't even try to call her.

As if he knew she had arrived the shower stops and Takumi steps out the bathroom to come face to face with a angry Misaki.

What is she doing here?

He thought he'll be able to freshen up and then call her over to his apartment to explain everything. She beat him to it. Misaki looks furious and why shouldn't she be? He ditched her with no excuse.

Instead of going and talk to her Takumi disappears into his bedroom. Misaki's mouth is hanging open in shock. Why won't he stay something. She sits on his couch and waits for him to get dress and say his excuse for not being there. Takumi at least owes her an apology. He had her worried.

The sound of his bedroom door opening again can be heard. Misaki stands up to take a look at him. He still doesn't speak.

"Where were you?" Misaki takes it upon herself to speak first. "Why weren't you here?"

"Misaki listen to what I say and please think about it carefully," He answers in a low voice. This isn't going the way he wanted to do it but he'll continue on with it.

"What is it?" Misaki says now being overtaken by worry more than angry now. Is something really wrong with him? Her eyes follow him as he gets down on one knee and pulls out a small box which reveals a very familiar ring.

"Marry me," Takumi tells her looking up into her amber eyes.

Misaki is lost for words.

"Marry me," Takumi repeats again.

Misaki composes herself looking away from him.

"Takumi…..I can't."

The end of another chapter. How was it? Fav follow and review your thoughts. More updates to come later today. For me this is where the story starts to get interesting.

Until next time my perverted aliens ~ Violet.