Why do these things always happen to me?

Part 8- oh my gosh, i'm alive.
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ngh...

..Kaede-sama...?

..shut up..i'm trying to die here..the least you could do is show some respect...

Kaede-sama, are you okay? That was a pretty hard fall....

I want to tell that annoying servant to go away and let me die in peace where i am in the grounds of the Rukawa Mansion. Ah yes, eternal rest shall be born to me as i lie here and bleed away .....A fish just hopped over my stomach...

A fish.

A FISH.

You know what else the great Rukawa Kaede just realised? He just realised that he's actually NOT bleeding, its just water. Fish infested water.

Lessons learnt #1)never throw yourself out of the window if you are only one storey up. Lessons learnt #2)especially if there is a fish pond below you.

Take it from me, I have first-hand experience.
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Anyway, not that i've discovered that i'm actually still very much alive, the least i can do is make myself look presentable so here i am sitting in my room drying my wet fish-food infested hair. Its a bit difficult cause i'm trying not to get any particles of fish food on the carpet. Dad will kill me.

Ah, what the hell, he already wants to kill me.

I let the spongy pieces of fish food fall whereevr they want to.Its such an ugly carpet anyway, not as bad as the brown one but still ugly; kinda dark blue with....birds(?) on it. Flamingos or something. When i guess i look halfway decent, I flop down backwards onto my bed to do some thinking. I still need to think of a tactful(and successful) way to get my bankbook back...

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I guess I must have fallen asleep instead of thinking because the next time I open my eyes, its almost dark outside. No wait, how can i GUESS i fell asleep when in the first place, if i didn't fall asleep, it would still be afternoon? Geez, i'm getting stupider by the day.

Anyway, i'm kinda hungry now so i'm gonna go downstairs and find something to eat.
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Ok, it turns out i don't have to find something to eat because the servants already prepared food for me. I have to admit i'm surprised...i mean, i thought dad would forbid them to do anything for me anymore. This just goes to show you how even the most horrible people in the world also can show that they-----

Kaede-sama, Master says that you can only eat that if you decide to come back.

----hate you to hell.

This is it. I can't believe he's gone so low. It's sick.

I don't care anymore. I came here to take back my bankbook and I'm going to take back my bankbook. I start to stalk towards his study. He's in there practically four seasons round.

I don't care what he thinks anymore. So i'm useless, pathetic , worthless and unable to accomplish anything remotely successful, so what?

Seriously, so what?




Dad doesn't even look up from his pile of papers as i push open the door and walk in. And even though i'm a little bit nervous, seeing him so arrogantly ignoring me gives me just about all the confidence i need to start talking.



Oh, Kaede, you're here, i didn't even notice , what are you doing standing in the middle of the room, sit down.

My jaw must have dropped. The nerve of him. Here i am trying to have an important discussion with him and he doesn't even notice i'm in the room.

That sort of puts me off a little but i still walk towards a chair and sit down.

Now, what was it you wanted to talk to me about?

Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale. I can do this. Inhale....I'm not coming back so you can stop with the-- BRIIIINGGG!!!!

And I'm left hanging on my unfinished sentence while he answers the phone.

I start to tap my foot against the floorboards to show that i want to talk to him but dad just goes on and on on the phone without even having the courtesy to give me an apologetic wave or something like that.

I begin.

He covers the phone with his hand. I'm busy now, can we continue this later?

When my mother went into labour with me, dad wasn't there in the hospital. He was in Europe attending some meeting. When i was 6, mom ran away with some other guy(she said he wasn't filthy rich but he sure paid more attention to her than dad did). Instead of realising where he had gone wrong, dad thought it was because he wasn't successful enough. For a whole year after that he was in the US establishing connections with all of those powerful companies. For that whole year i had no chance to see him at all.

When i was 10 and participated in my first official basketball match(The one where I threw my first successful 3-pointer), it wasn't him that was there to see it, it was the servants(and the chauffer who drove me there). When my bicycle collided with a car when i was 14, it was also the servants who visited me in the hospital. They brought me food and cards that they said were from my father. I'm not stupid, i knew those stuff were bought with their own pay.Why would dad come back from his important overseas business meetings just because his only son was in the hospital? It doesn't make sense.

When i was discharged a month later, I kept on asking the chauffer to drive home faster so that I could see my father. As self-centered as it sounds, i wanted him to ask me if i was okay. I wanted him to say he was sorry he couldn't visit me and he wouold make it up to me somehow. But instead, all i found when i got home was a note taped to my bedroom door saying he had to leave for an important meeting and that he had bought me 10 new bicycles so i should not worry about the damaged one.

As far as i'm concerned, my position as his son is basically nothing more than a stagnant figure to be kept behind His Majesty's shadow until it is my turn to take over the business.

That ends now.

-tbc-
ok, the ending may not make sense now but that's because it suppose to continue onto the next chapter.^^;;