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Chapter Nine:
Usagi looked into
the blue eyes of one of the men responsible for the most embarrassing, hurtful
nights of her young life. Her blue eyes
flashed dangerously with the pent up anger that longed for release.
"You
bastard". She hissed slapping the man
hard across the face.
"Usa, what's wrong
with you?" Ami asked pulling the angry
girl from her brother. She should be
angry, but she was more so shocked. She
had never seen Usagi raise her hand to hit anything. This was a girl who pleaded for a rat's life when one was found
in their dorm room. She insisted on
capturing the disgusting creature herself in a pillowcase and then released it
in the park five miles away from the University. Ami couldn't believe this was the same girl, whose face was
flushed with her anger.
"You don't
understand!" She shouted pulling away
from Ami. The partiers stopped dancing finding the display Usagi was putting on
more interesting.
"I take it that
you two know each other, Jed?" Neph asked looking at an angry Usagi and the
calm blond haired man holding his stinging cheek.
"Yeah". Jed said.
"We've met". He said looking down at Usagi.
"Maybe we should
take this outside".
Zack said noticing
the crowd that was beginning to form around them.
"Yeah that would
be a good idea".
Makoto said noticing the same thing.
"Come on,
Usa".
Makoto said
grabbing the smaller girl by the arm leading her to the door. She was curious to know what was going on,
and she was sure everyone else was as well.
"So, I take it
that you're still mad".
Jed said smirking
once they made it outside the dorm.
"What do you
think, after what you and that heartless jerk did to me?"
Usagi spat back
shaking from her anger.
"What did my
brother do to you, Usa?"
Ami asked looking
from Usagi to Jed. Jed was her older
brother. He always looked out for her
and she loved him dearly, but she knew that her brother was a player. He left a chain of broken hearts wherever he
went. She just hoped Usa wasn't one on
his list; she lost more friends that way.
"I can't talk
about this, I refuse to let him upset me, its not good for the ba… for
me".
She said having
almost given away her secret, and she surely didn't want Jed to know. He would
just go back and tell Mamoru, and she wasn't ready for him to know yet.
"Ami, I appreciate
you trying to find me a date, I know that you all have been worried about me
lately, and I'm sorry that I ruined your night, but I can't be here around him
now, not now".
"Usa, just tell us
what's going on. Let us help you". Makoto said reaching out to the girl.
"No! Not now. I
can't deal with this now, Mako. He used
me, and I let him… I let him." Usagi
said tears coming to her eyes as she thought about the way she foolishly
allowed Mamoru to take her virginity and even more foolishly allowed herself to
get pregnant by a man that obviously only wanted her for one thing.
"Usagi, if you
would just let me explain…" Jed started.
"No, I don't want
to hear, I don't want to talk about it, just stay away from me, and tell that
boss of yours the same thing".
Usagi said and ran
from her friends, from Jed, and from everyone's questions.
"I'm not Mamoru,
Usa, I'm not going to chase after you, but I'll tell you one thing, he's not
going to leave you along". Jed yelled
at her retreating form, not knowing if she heard him or not.
"What the hell is
going on here?" Neph asked angrily.
"Ask Usa. It's not
my story to tell". Jed said calmly.
Usagi ran back to
her dorm as fast her legs could carry her. She just couldn't handle their questions right now but she knew that
soon she would have to face them. A
person can't run forever. More
importantly, Mamoru will now know where she was, but maybe that didn't matter,
he had already gotten what he wanted from her. What more could she possibly have to offer him?
Mamoru swiftly
walked from the elevator onto the third story of the large corporation know as
Beryllium Inc. He saw the secretary of
his intended party sitting at her desk carefully filing her nails. The woman, who appeared to be in her mid
forties, looked up at Mamoru's domineering presence disinterestedly.
"Where's Beryl?"
He boomed, anger evident in his voice.
"Mrs. Shisou is in with a client right now, Mr.
Chiba. She can't be disturbed".
The secretary informed him still filing her nails
"Well, is
that so? This can't wait I'm
afraid. Beryl will see me now, so if
you'll excuse me Mrs. Harahan."
Mamoru said and quickly walked past the secretary's
desk and into Beryl's office door with Mrs. Harahan on his heels.
Beryl and the gentleman sitting before her desk
looked up at the intrusion.
"Mamoru?" She said looking at the tall well-built
man that had entered her office so rudely.
She almost forgot to be angry with him after taking
in his handsome form, and who could blame her, black certainly was made for
him. In his all black attire he
radiated sensuality and mystery.
"Mrs. Shisou, what is the meaning of this?" Beryl's
client asked.
"Mr. Washington, this is my fiancé, Chiba Mamoru".
Beryl said
introducing Mamoru, trying to gain control of the situation.
"Mr. Washington, I have some very important matters
to discuss with my fiancé so if you don't mind". Mamoru said saying fiancé with as much
disgust as he could muster.
"Well ok, we were about done anyway. I'll get those figures to you soon, Mrs.
Shisou. It was interesting meeting you
Mr. Chiba".
Mr. Washington said as he stood to leave.
He looked from Mamoru to the frighten secretary
standing warily behind him. He figured
whatever the young man wanted to discuss with Beryl would not be pretty. He walked out of the office nodding at the
secretary when he passed her.
"Mrs. Shisou I tried to stop him".
The secretary said pleading her case. She knew Beryl was practically trigger-happy
when it came to firing employees and she didn't want to become one of her
unwilling targets.
"That will be all Jenny".
Beryl said dismissing her secretary. Her cold green eyes stared intently at
Mamoru. The secretary quickly left the
office closing the door behind her.
"Darling, did you miss me so much that you had to
break up one of my meetings to see me". Beryl said walking up to Mamoru who stood beside her bookcase.
"Don't be ridiculous. You know why I'm here. I
wanted you to know that I got your little message". Mamoru said his dark blue eyes glaring coldly down at Beryl.
"Whatever are you talking about?"
"Don't try to play innocent, Beryl, we both know
you're far from that. I'm talking about what you did to my apartment you
bitch".
He said his dark and unreadable, a frown tainting
his handsome face.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't do
anything to your apartment. Perhaps, you got me mixed up with that blond bitch
you're screwing behind my back". Beryl
spat back, her emerald eyes darkening with anger.
"You mean to tell
me that it wasn't you that ransacked my apartment and destroyed my mother's
picture last night. What kind of fool
do you think I am, Beryl, that type of shit practically reeks of you?"
Mamoru snapped at her, his anger almost boiling over when he thought of his
mother's picture.
Beryl backed away from Mamoru seeing the malice in
his eyes though his posture showed nothing of his anger his eyes said it
all.
"Look, before you start shooting off accusations get
your facts straight. I just came back
from America this morning. Now I know I'm good, but I'm not good enough to have
messed up your apartment or destroyed your precious picture thousands of miles
away."
Mamoru looked at Beryl through narrowed eyes
assessing what she had just told him. When he thought about it, Beryl did tell him last week before she left
that she wouldn't be back until today. Even though Beryl was a lying, conniving bitch, he believed she was
telling the truth. He could always read
her like a book; she couldn't lie to him without him knowing it.
"Ok Beryl I believe you, but if I find out you're
lying to me… Well let's just say, that wouldn't be good." He said smiling a cruel, humorless
smile. Beryl looked almost frightened
when she saw that smile. She knew what
Mamoru was capable of, and she didn't want to be on the receiving end of his
anger. But she would never let him know
that she was afraid, afraid of him. She
decided to try a different tactic.
"Darling, how could you even think I'll do something
like that? I'll tell you what, I will
forgive you, but you are going to have to do some serious making up". Beryl said giving one of her sexiest
smiles. Yes she was afraid of Mamoru's
anger but she was even more afraid of losing him. It was not that she was madly in love with him or any thing,
though she did quite enjoy their bedroom activities, she just wouldn't lose him
to that bitch Emily, that would just be too embarrassing, and her friends would
never let her live it down.
She walked over to Mamoru, who looked at her with
darkened blue eyes that she thought was filled with lust. She slowly slipped her arms around his slim
waist licking her lips seductively. Mamoru made no attempt to hold her just stood there unresponsive,
looking at her coldly.
"You know what, Darling?" He said sarcastically, mimicking her term of endearment.
"I think I'm ready to end this charade".
He said unlocking Beryl's arms from around his
waist.
"I've found someone else, and I'm afraid that I've
fallen in love with her". He said
coldly.
"Fallen in love! You don't even know the meaning of
that phrase! What are you trying to tell me, Mamoru, that you've fell for that
conceited whore, Emily"!
Beryl screamed her eyes blazing dangerously.
"Please, Beryl, don't throw a tantrum. We both know that I don't love you and you
don't love me. We were only marrying to
tie our businesses, hoping to oust the other when the time was right. Well, there has been a change of
plans". He said. Beryl looked at him shocked. No man has ever refused her. She couldn't believe that this was happening
to her.
"But the wedding, all the planning…"
"There won't be a wedding". Mamoru said cutting her off.
He walked to the door, leaving a stunned Beryl
behind.
He opened the door and looked back at the woman he
had just dumped.
"Have a nice day, Beryl".
He said smirking and closed the door, narrowly
missing a flying object that hit the door and fell to the floor having missed
its target. A string of curses followed
him to the elevator, as Beryl screamed behind her closed door words that would
make a sailor blush.
He walked out the building toward his black
Mitshibitshi (did I spell this right?) Eclipse.
If Beryl didn't do it then who did? He
thought.
Mamoru finally made it back to his apartment to find
Jed outside his door, his fist raised to knock.
"Hey, man". Jed said noticing Mamoru.
"Hey, what do you want, Jed"? Mamoru asked really not wanting to deal with
anyone right now. Today had been a bad
day, especially with the episode with Beryl. He just wanted to relax and think of ways to find his little bunny.
Jed stood allowing Mamoru to unlock his apartment
and followed him inside.
"Chiba, you still down in the dumps?" Jed asked
giving his best friend a once over. The
taller man looked like hell, not on the surface though. On the surface he looked very much in
control, unreadable, but Jed had known Mamoru since they were children, he
could tell that Mamoru was not ok, even if Mamoru himself wouldn't admit
it.
"Look I don't need this right now, so if you don't
have anything important to tell me, then leave". Mamoru said coldly.
Jed didn't back down a bit, he was used to Mamoru's
attitude by now.
"Ouch, touché." He said taking a seat on Mamoru's couch.
"As it so happens, Bro, I've got some news that you
may find interesting".
"Really". Mamoru said sarcastically. He
sat down on the couch. This should be interesting Mamoru thought.
"Yeah, really. You know that little rabbit you had." Jed said pausing for effect and just to irritate Mamoru.
"Man, what are you talking about". Mamoru said getting irritated.
"You know, Chiba, the one that got away".
"Jed, will you make some sense, I never had a
rabbit…." Mamoru started, until he caught on.
"Usako! You know where Usako is?" He said jumping up.
"I told you, you would want to hear this". Jed said
smirking.
"Whatever just tell me where she is". Mamoru said looking down at Jed. The man always manages to irritate me,
sometimes I wonder how we became friends in the first place Mamoru
thought. The answer was very simple
though, Jed always had his back and Mamoru knew that he could trust Jed with is
life.
"She attends UT with my little sister. All this time she's been right under your
nose".
Mamoru sat back down beside Jed, saying
nothing. He felt relieved that he
finally knew where his Usako was, ecstatic that she was still in Tokyo, but new
worries came to replace the old ones. Now that he knew where she was, how do he get her to forgive him. How can he get her to love him, as he loves
her?
So what ya think? Review, Please. Bet some of you thought that was Mamoru instead huh? Anyway I hoped ya liked this chapter. BTW: Shisou means Shadow of Death.
